Photo Beta 2.2.1954 Mac open only one pic at a time?

[Puck]

Hi there, 

can it be that the current Photo Beta for Mac (1954) can only open one image at a time? Whenever I click on multiple images and say 'open' it only ever opens one image. After several attempts via the 'Open' menu it suddenly works, but not always. Strange behavior, I think. I can not explain better, sorry.

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[j3rry]

I have the same problem.

 

[walt.farrell]

There's a known issue with drag/drop. Perhaps it applies to opening multiples from Finder that way, too. Try Opening them from Photo itself.

 

[Affinity-Inspiration]

It appears that way, but they are actually stacked on top of each other, and I can’t see how to show all the tabs.

[Puck]

2 hours ago, HarryMcGovern said:

It appears that way, but they are actually stacked on top of each other, and I can’t see how to show all the tabs.

Interesting! I have not seen that. Still a bug, though, right?

[Old Bruce]

23 minutes ago, Puck said:

Still a bug, though, right?

I would say yes. 

 

3 hours ago, HarryMcGovern said:

they are actually stacked on top of each other, and I can’t see how to show all the tabs.

Good catch. I too cannot figure out how to get the tabs to show. I most likely won't spend much time on this as I never actually work like that. I use File > Open...

[Affinity-Inspiration]

48 minutes ago, Puck said:

Interesting! I have not seen that. Still a bug, though, right?

I noticed this, because I loaded 6 jpg and png files, and only the last one showed up. Hmmm thought I. So I closed that one and presto, there was the second one.

no tabs showing, nothing indicating that it was part of a collection.

definately a bug. Mac desktop by the way. M2 Mini

[walt.farrell]

Do you have the Window > Arrange menu item in the macOS Affinity applications? If so, and if it's available there as it is on Windows, perhaps Window > Arrange > Dock (or Dock All) would help.

[MikeTO]

You can force the tabs to appear by creating a new document. After clicking OK in the New dialog all of the tabs will be visible.

This is part of a broader issue in the beta - documents aren't being added to the Window menu when created or opened. I've confirmed that they're added to the Window menu in all of the 2.1 apps but none of the 2.2 beta apps.

I'm going to do some more testing.

[MikeTO]

You can also get the tabs to appear by floating the image you can see to a new window and then merging it back in.

Edited August 19, 2023 by MikeTO
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[MikeTO]

Another part to this issue. New documents aren't being added to the dock app icon menu - existing documents are being added though.

[MikeTO]

Final point - if you already have tabs, for example create two blank documents, and then open 1 more document, it will be shown as a tab. But if you open 2+ more documents at the same time, they'll be shown in the active tab.

It doesn't matter how you open the documents, whether drag and drop, File > Open, or right click their Finder icons.

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Documents are not added to the Window menu on macOS") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: PD-941). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Document tabs aren't shown if multiple documents are opened at once") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: PD-941). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[manu schwendener]

Fixed for me with the latest update 2.2.0 (1971)

[Puck]

11 minutes ago, manu schwendener said:

Fixed for me with the latest update 2.2.0 (1971)

For me too 👍

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "[Mac] Dragging multiple documents into the app fails to show the document tab bar" (REF: PD-941) has been fixed by the developers in internal builds "2.2.0.1971 & 2.2.0.1986".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.