echoprint Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 Hello, I performed the 2.2 update this afternoon, and since then, Designer and Publisher no longer launches correctly. Either they close unexpectedly or I face an activation window where I can't log in ("Please try again in a moment"). I have already tried to run it as administrator, without success... I saw that other users were having the exact same problem, but without a solution yet... Does anyone have a solution to suggest? Thanks ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonid Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 I have the same issue. Didn't get a good answer yet. Now, I can only run designer as administrator, but it's uncomfortable working like that. You can't drag anything to designer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 44 minutes ago, echoprint said: Does anyone have a solution to suggest? If that's still happening, you might try the suggestions in the FAQ: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/182419-troubleshooting-affinity-v2-licence-activation-issues/ 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoprint Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 15 hours ago, yonid said: I have the same issue. Didn't get a good answer yet. Now, I can only run designer as administrator, but it's uncomfortable working like that. You can't drag anything to designer. I have exactly the same issue too, unable to drag a file on Designer or Publisher to open it… I tried to contact Serif support, but they are mute, unfortunately… Let me know if you find something ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoprint Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 20 hours ago, yonid said: I have the same issue. Didn't get a good answer yet. Now, I can only run designer as administrator, but it's uncomfortable working like that. You can't drag anything to designer. I think I have found a "solution" : I uninstalled Affinity and Publisher (from the Windows 11 Apps settings panel, then I checked if there was any other version remanining in the old Control Panel). Then I went on my account on the Serif Affinity store, then on the Licenses and downloads tab, and I scrolled down to the MSI versions of the installers. Oddly, installing Designer and Publisher with these old MSI installers fixed the problem, both are launching without crash and no more activation problem is occuring... It's a DIY solution, but it works, until the bug is fixed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 21, 2023 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2023 Hi Echoprint, thank you for sharing your fix here on the forums as it should help anyone else who see's this issue. @yonid if possible could you try the fix Echoprint mentioned above? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonid Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Callum said: Hi Echoprint, thank you for sharing your fix here on the forums as it should help anyone else who see's this issue. @yonid if possible could you try the fix Echoprint mentioned above? Thanks C I uninstalled it. Restarted my machine. Installed it with the MSI installer. It started but crashed within 5 seconds. I restarted my machine again, and now I have the same issue with activation. Edited September 21, 2023 by yonid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 21, 2023 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2023 Hi Yonid please could you try the suggestions mentioned below so I can look into this further with you? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonid Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 50 minutes ago, Callum said: Hi Yonid please could you try the suggestions mentioned below so I can look into this further with you? Thanks C Hi @Callum, and thanks for the assistance. I tried relaunching Designer again. Now, it's not asking for an activation code. But it closed 10-15 seconds after it launched. But now Affinity Photo with an older version Is asking me for activation. And I didn't have any issues with it before the update, and I didn't update it. So, I removed all the programs. Photo, Designer, and publisher. I installed only designer using the MSI installer. Now it's closing after 10-15. This is the best I have reached so far. after that, I tried the troubleshooting guide. Not working for me. Tried clearing everything with the CTRL button. Now its asking me again for activation, but now after 10 seconds, it closes itself. Any other suggestion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonid Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 Update: I ran designer as administrator, and it asked me for activation within the app. I entered my credentials and now it not closing!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoprint Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 12 minutes ago, yonid said: Hi @Callum, and thanks for the assistance. I tried relaunching Designer again. Now, it's not asking for an activation code. But it closed 10-15 seconds after it launched. But now Affinity Photo with an older version Is asking me for activation. And I didn't have any issues with it before the update, and I didn't update it. So, I removed all the programs. Photo, Designer, and publisher. I installed only designer using the MSI installer. Now it's closing after 10-15. This is the best I have reached so far. after that, I tried the troubleshooting guide. Not working for me. Tried clearing everything with the CTRL button. Now its asking me again for activation, but now after 10 seconds, it closes itself. Any other suggestion? That's weird, Affinity and Publisher works perfectly on my PC since then... Could you re-try to uninstall, then delete the Affinity folder in the roaming folder (C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity) and try to reinstall with the MSI installers ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yonid Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 5 minutes ago, echoprint said: That's weird, Affinity and Publisher works perfectly on my PC since then... Could you re-try to uninstall, then delete the Affinity folder in the roaming folder (C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Affinity) and try to reinstall with the MSI installers ? Believe me I tired it all. It's working now. I updated it in my last comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoprint Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, yonid said: Believe me I tired it all. It's working now. I updated it in my last comment. Sorry I didn't see it! Glad you found a solution. I hope these two solutions combined will work for other affected users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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