copying/porting Workspace-Presets: Windows <-> MAC

[.eb]

( I love Affinity )

I setup painstakingly configured "Presets" aka: Workspaces, in Publisher and Designer in Publisher and Photo in publisher, using Win11.
I sometimes need to use my macbook while on the road instead of taking along my main win11 laptop.  (No sense in taking both with me.)

I Would like to port my workspace settings to the macbook for those odd times I need to use it. 

I was able to port the "\Workspaces\custom" XML files from my win11 desktop to my win11 laptop. That worked out well.
.. but on Mac, the files are ".preset files" instead of .xml files..  and they appear to be binary(which is overkill♫).

Is there a way to share my workspace presets between platforms ??
I simply don't want to go through the setup process again because it took 5 attempts to get right on the desktop due to crashes and dark magic moves.

From reading the forums on this topic.. I think people would like an export / import presets/workspace-layouts option.
Thank you.

P.S.
My win11 desktop has these .xml files in:  %AppData%\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\2.0\Workspaces\Custom\
My win11 laptop has these .xml files in: %userprofile%\.affinity
My Macbook has the .preset files in: \Users\<user>\Library\Application Support\Affinity..
 

[Dan C]

Hi @.eb,

Unfortunately it's not possible to convert these files between Windows and macOS currently - my apologies.

However this would make for a good feature in a future update, perhaps with the option to manually export these Presets from the app as you've mentioned, such that they could be imported into another instance of the app on a different operating system.

I'll be sure to move this thread to the feedback section of our forums now, for our devs to see and consider

8 hours ago, .eb said:

P.S.
My win11 desktop has these .xml files in:  %AppData%\Roaming\Affinity\Publisher\2.0\Workspaces\Custom\
My win11 laptop has these .xml files in: %userprofile%\.affinity

It sounds as though you have the EXE version installed on your desktop, and the MSIX version installed on your laptop - there is no issue with this, simply the files are stored in different locations as outlined here - 

I hope this helps!

[.eb]

Someone else kindly mentioned the MSIX and MSI difference. Thanks for the info.
I wasn't paying strict attention when installing to that laptop.  .. AKA: was a "ten things at once" kind of day.  

Having a workspace preset system that goes cross plat would be great.. don't get me wrong, it's not the end of the world.. but if I think about modern processes and different artists / friends/ etc  .. some do lay out the hierarchy of shapes and then shade them... then images, then text ...
So having multiple preset spaces easily ported(and maybe even easily selected (like 3dsMax has a drop menu).. that would be stellar.

Thanks Dan!