ScarletQueen Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 I'm in a bit of a pickle here! For some reason ALL of my Affinity Designer files (I am using v 2) have been replaced by uneditable Affinity Photo files! How can this be happening, and how do I turn them back? Even the ones on my USB drive are turned into Photo files. I was recently looking at some images in my image folder and chose to use Affinity Photo to view them, but why are all my Affinity Designer files now Affinity Photo files instead? Please help me with this. Thanks. Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 16 minutes ago, ScarletQueen said: have been replaced by uneditable Affinity Photo files! Any of the three Affinity applications can Open any of the extensions: .afdesign, .afphoto, or .afdesign are all interchangeable. What is the symptom of them being "uneditable"? As for why they may have changed, it is probably just your OS telling you what the default application is, which often will be the last application you installed that told the OS it can handle that kind of file. Your OS has functions to change that, and if you tell us which OS you use we may be able to tell you how to do it. 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
ScarletQueen Posted August 16, 2023 Author Posted August 16, 2023 @walt.farrell Okay, so now this is odd. There must be something that switches the file types back and forth from Affinity Designer files to Affinity Photo files and then back again lol. I had them all displaying the Affinity Photo icon instead of the Affinity Designer icon on my desktop, even the ones on my USB drive. They were all previously designed in Designer. I tried to edit one of them in Affinity Designer but couldn't before. Then I tried another file and I was able to edit it in Affinity Designer. I later decided to save it in Affinity Designer then, lo and behold, ALL of the files are now displaying the Affinity Designer icon. Why did all of that happen? Was that some sort of temporary glitch? Not sure what happened there, but I’m glad that they’re all back now! Quote
walt.farrell Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 Odd, indeed. 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
v_kyr Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 Check the more important file extensions (how these are named/read) and don't just judge from the associated app icons shown in Explorer/Finder etc. App icon associations to file types can be changed! Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
ScarletQueen Posted August 16, 2023 Author Posted August 16, 2023 @v_kyr The files showed themselves as being Affinity Photo files, although they were created and saved in Affinity Designer. They all turned themselves back after editing and re-saving one of them In Affinity Designer. Quote
v_kyr Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 Just now, ScarletQueen said: They all turned themselves back after editing and re-saving one of them In Affinity Designer. Under which OS, Win or Mac? Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
v_kyr Posted August 16, 2023 Posted August 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, ScarletQueen said: Windows https://defaultprogramseditor.com/ Change default program without changing file icon AFAI recall Windows itself also offers to change associated apps via the "Open With..." settings. ScarletQueen 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
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