Affinity Designer 2 crashing instantly when trying to copy a text-box or a graphic element - Mac Book Pro 15 (2019)

[Lydia V]

Hi all,

im using affinity designer 2 since one year and had a few minor troubles however everything is still going great and I really enjoy working with it. 

Since today, I'm having a big problem. Every time when I'm copying a simple text field or a graphic element (basically anything) it's just crashing - it is not responding anymore. What I tried to fix it:

- obviously shutting down & starting the laptop again
- tried on another affinity designer file (smaller file) - still happens
- deinstalled and installed affinity 

The report after the crash only says " the program didn't respond in 97 seconds". 

How can I fix that? Any suggestions?

Thank you
Lydia 

[loukash]

Are you using any clipboard enhancement system utility, e.g. something that allows multiple clipboards or clipboard history? That can often be the culprit in similar scenarios.

[Lydia V]

@loukash no I don't, just simply copy - past....

[Lydia V]

I just deleted my whole clipboard history, maybe this will solve it...

 

[loukash]

1 hour ago, Lydia V said:

I just deleted my whole clipboard history

Since MacOS doesn't have any clipboard history built in, you are apparently using such a utility.  

For example, I'm using Keyboard Maestro which has a clipboard history feature. In its preferences I can exclude apps from making use of the history. In fact, the one app I had to exclude is Affinity Photo, because certain clipboard content was causing troubles. 
That's why I was asking.