Assets storage

[eiketre]

Hi

 

I have finally made the switch to just working with the Affinity. I use the assets functionality a lot. In the previous program i used my assets were stored in the cloud. Does affinity have any backup or cloud save available for the asset’s library?

Regards

[walt.farrell]

No. All your installed Assets are stored locally on your computer, in a single file (assets.propcol) that can grow large (hurting performance) and fragile.

[thomaso]

57 minutes ago, eiketre said:

Does affinity have any backup or cloud save available for the asset’s library?

Serif still recommends to have all related files stored locally when working with them. This concerns the Affinity document and linked resources, too.

Also note, Assets don't allow linked elements but embed any linked layout item in the 'assets.propcol' file. This also means an item in the Asset panel can't get modified and get its used instance in a layout updated. Furthermore not every layout element can get used as asset, for instance objects of type 'document' and other 'container' file formats like e.g. PDF and EPS.

Thus it may be a more flexible alternative to create an Affinity document instead of using the Asset panel or its specific export file type. You can either link a document + crop/clip to a certain item, or open this resource document ad copy/paste its items, e.g. for embedded use of only these elements.

Assets advantage: different to Affinity documents the Assets are independent of their creating application version, so you can import & use Assets that were created with Affinity 2 in a V1 app, too.