Affinity Rat Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 I’ve wanted to be able to better organize my files and not found an app that will handle Affinity files. I didnt really require edit ability just search and organization. Since I share my iPad files with my PC this presented a lot of potential problems, but maybe all is well. I realized that jpg files modified on the iPad and copied back to PC retain tags, and Affinity automatically reads jpg tags visible in Windows file manager and exports those tags in created jpgs and also saves them within the Affinity photo metadata. These tags seen in Windows file manager can then be searched using boolean operators. This is all I need, I can group, view the thumb of Affinity files and jpgs, and search and sort by keyword. I must be missing something….no I dont need editing as part of a DAM app. Hooray! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity Rat Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Oops, I didnt check to see if files stored in the iCloud retain those Windows tags, when copied back, possibly not. Also, Windows probably wont find Affinity files based on meta data, but if Afphoto exports a jpg, can put an “Affinity” tag in jpg to find the actual Affinity file if stored in same location. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Was there a question in there? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity Rat Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Was there a question in there? Lol, I proposed this, because I thought I might be missing something. It might appear that Affinity products allow only a few tags so if imported file has many going in, it may only have a few coming out. Is this correct, I thought I saw somewhere the number of tags was limited to 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 1 hour ago, Affinity Rat said: Is this correct Sorry; I don't know. Affinity Rat 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Affinity Rat Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 Thanx for the thot. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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