Sonny Sonny Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 After working with much more files, we need to clean up the recent files in startup panel. Or at least, give us feature that helps us able to remove selected recent files. Quote
carl123 Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 You can clear them all with File > Open Recent > Clear Or more selectively in the startup panel by utilising the right-click "Remove" menu option Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Rabari Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 It seems the Affinity suite (at least Publisher) tries to locate every file in the Recents menu at startup. This means that if some of the files are off-line, the app appears hanged for a very long time. This should be rectified so that the menu only lists all recent files, but if you try to open a file which has gone off-line, you get an alert to the fact. Quote
GarryP Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 In the “Recent” panel (part of what’s called the “Startup panel” above) there is also a little “Remove” cross-like icon at the top-left of the thumbnail when the mouse is hovering over that thumbnail. The “Remove” cross-like icon doesn’t remove multiply-selected documents (at least on Windows, for me), but the right-click-Remove option does. Quote
GarryP Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 1 hour ago, Rabari said: This means that if some of the files are off-line, the app appears hanged for a very long time. Can you explain what you mean by an “off-line” file? Do you mean a file which is not on a local storage device, or a file which has been moved/deleted from/on local storage, or something else? Quote
PaulEC Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 I'm not sure if Rabari has the same thing in mind, but I would certainly like an option to only show recent files that are still available to open, and not include ones that have been moved or deleted. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 – Windows 11 Home - Affinity Publisher, Photo & Designer, v2 (As I am a Windows user, any answers/comments I contribute may not apply to Mac or iPad.)
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 1 hour ago, PaulEC said: I'm not sure if Rabari has the same thing in mind, but I would certainly like an option to only show recent files that are still available to open, and not include ones that have been moved or deleted. But the problem with that is that the detection involves looking at files on Network drives or on removable drives, which will as @Rabari mentioned take a long time. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
PaulEC Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 50 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: But the problem with that is that the detection involves looking at files on Network drives or on removable drives, which will as @Rabari mentioned take a long time. I'd take your word for it, but I'm not sure why it would take any longer not to display files no longer available, than to list them, even though you cannot open them! (Which seems a bit pointless to me.) Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 – Windows 11 Home - Affinity Publisher, Photo & Designer, v2 (As I am a Windows user, any answers/comments I contribute may not apply to Mac or iPad.)
Pšenda Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 19 minutes ago, PaulEC said: I'd take your word for it, but I'm not sure why it would take any longer not to display files no longer available, than to list them, even though you cannot open them! (Which seems a bit pointless to me.) Detecting the availability of a file that is remote (network or on a suspend external drive) generally takes much longer than detecting a local file. But of course, it can be solved "intelligently", i.e. list all of them in the menu, and then gradually disable it after detecting the file's inaccessibility. I's interesting that walt has been "troubled" by the same elementary problem for several years 🙂 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 42 minutes ago, PaulEC said: I'd take your word for it, but I'm not sure why it would take any longer not to display files no longer available, than to list them, even though you cannot open them! (Which seems a bit pointless to me.) Listing them is easy. The application is keeping a list of recent files, and it just displays that list. Filtering out the ones that are no longer available requires actually looking for each of them, on the disk where they were loaded from. And that requires disk I/O, and waiting for the disks (or network) to respond. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
PaulEC Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 I do get this, but, in the "Recent" panel there are thumbnails of the recent files, if the file has been moved or deleted there isn't a thumbnail. I can't see why it would be that difficult to have ah option to hide the files with no thumbnails (and, therefore, no links). That would effectively mean that only those files which are available to be opened are displayed, and those that can't be opened would not be. Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 – Windows 11 Home - Affinity Publisher, Photo & Designer, v2 (As I am a Windows user, any answers/comments I contribute may not apply to Mac or iPad.)
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2023 Posted August 15, 2023 2 hours ago, PaulEC said: I do get this, but, in the "Recent" panel there are thumbnails of the recent files, if the file has been moved or deleted there isn't a thumbnail. I can't see why it would be that difficult to have ah option to hide the files with no thumbnails (and, therefore, no links). That would effectively mean that only those files which are available to be opened are displayed, and those that can't be opened would not be. Good point, Paul. The applications are apparently already looking for the existance of the files, in order to display the thumbnails, and they could optionally omit the ones that they can't find. PaulEC 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Sonny Sonny Posted August 16, 2023 Author Posted August 16, 2023 Update: The issue was updated on the beta release. "Ctrl + A => Right Mouse => Remove " is now removing all the files were selected instead of only file that was hover by mouse. Thanks Quote
Rabari Posted September 4, 2023 Posted September 4, 2023 Sorry for the late answer. What I meant was: At work we have server with different shares. Sometimes I forget to mount all the shares that possibly have som earlier saved Publisher files (could be a file saved a week ago). If this is the case just trying to open the Recents menu hangs the app for a long time, as it searches for the missing shares. When they are mounted, the menu opens just fine, and I can get to the "Clear Menu" option. Quote
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