Loading 1 Document

[Lineguage]

Just installed New iMac (11-9-2023) 24 inch M3 chip, running Sonoma 14.1.1. Migrated all Affinity files from old iMac (ran V2.2.1 on old Mac with Monterey 12.7.1) and running V 2.2.1 on new iMac with Sonoma 14.1.1). Can load some AFF Designer files, others not. Get the killer "Loading 1 Document" message.  I tried to load one file and left it open all night last night. This morning, the file was open. I didn't get a chance to save it as Affinity froze up. I Force Quit Aff, restarted it and tried loading the same file again. A few minutes later it appeared (opened) again. This time I did a SAVE AS and then closed it. I tried again to reopen it, and got the "Loading 1 Document" message again. Has there been a fix for this dilemma yet? All help appreciated. As I was sending this thread, the file opened again.

[MikeTO]

There were reports like this when Sonoma came out but I believe they all settled down on their own without any intervention and the consensus was it was an iCloud issue. So give your new system a bit of time.

The first thing I do on a new Mac is to force download my documents folder so it's all stored locally. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'd rather do that upfront rather than have Affinity try to open several hundred linked images from iCloud when I open an afpub file.

[Lineguage]

Thanx MikeTO - When you talk about "linked images", just what are you referring to?

[MikeTO]

24 minutes ago, Lineguage said:

Thanx MikeTO - When you talk about "linked images", just what are you referring to?

When you place an image into Publisher it can be embedded or linked. Embedded means just that, if you delete the original image file it won't have any impact because the data is inside Publisher. Linked means that Publisher includes only a low resolution preview of the image in the document, to keep file size down, and retains a link to the original file. If you open a document with hundreds of linked images and they're all in the cloud the images would need to be downloaded.

If you use linked images it's best to set up your new computer by downloading all of the cloud files you need to use before you get going.

There may also be some optimizations going on in the background during the first day you use your new computer.

Cheers

[Lineguage]

I found the solution. Turn off iCloud Sync. Once I did that, BINGO, all was well in Wallyland. . .  .thanx again for  your support.