empty .afpub file size

[Terentyev Publisher]

New empty .afpub files size is approx 8mB. The same .afdesign file is 9kB.

Big Sur 11.7.10
Affinities version 2.2.1

p.s. I use Affinity since 2018, and since the end of the last year I miss v1 very much. Watching with sadness how buggy, unpredictable and unstable Affinity becomes. Please, save it.

[carl123]

When you say the file is "empty" do you mean you just created a new file and did nothing else but save it or did you do some work then deleted everything until it was "empty" and then saved it?

Also, can you upload the "empty" file to the forum?

 

[Terentyev Publisher]

created and saved. nothing was done in the files.empty A4 publisher.afpubempty A4 designer.afdesign

[carl123]

Thanks, hopefully support or the Devs will be able to analyse the "empty" file and find out why the file size is large

On windows an empty publisher file is about 12KB for me

Just one more thing...

Are you creating and saving the file on a networked drive or NAS drive etc and if so, what is the file size when creating and saving to your local drive?

[NathanC]

Hi @Terentyev Publisher,

I'm also only getting a ~11KB empty publisher file on Mac so it's possible there is something environment related on your device/app causing this to happen. I did notice that your 8MB publisher doc is RGB/16 when compared to your RGB/8 Designer file, but I wouldn't expect this to cause this significant of a file size inflation.

It is possible to save certain defaults with files in Publisher which can contribute to file size, so I'd suggest following the below to default these:

1. Close all Affinity apps

2. Hold down CTRL and launch Publisher while still holding CTRL

3. A 'Clear user data' menu will appear, tick the following boxes from the screenshot below:

4. Press 'Clear' and the app will now launch

5. Try creating a new document in the RGB/8 colour space and check the file size again.

 

If you could also confirm the location that your saving the file to, and if saving to a different location locally impacts the file size as Carl mentioned that would be great.