joe_l Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Nothing spectacular, something I noticed and surprised me. When I installed and opened the RC1 today, the recent file list was the one from the retail version. Same for AP and AD. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Hi @joe_l what OS are you on? I am running Mac Mojave and I don't see this issue on any of the apps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 Windows 10. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 1 hour ago, joe_l said: Windows 10. As specified in the topic tags, but not everyone remembers to look at those! If you put your system specs in your signature, the info will be included at the bottom of every post. joe_l 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 22 Staff Share Posted February 22 This is the correct behaviour Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 19 minutes ago, Chris B said: This is the correct behaviour Meaning, that the RC builds use the retail Preferences, etc? 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...
Bit Disappointed Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 It is okay and standard practice to move into the borderline area between the test version (beta) and the release version when reaching the release candidate stage. It is in this phase that beta testers need to understand - as they hopefully have already done by risking to overwrite older versions of files with newer formats - that they are taking a small risk at their own expense as beta testers in order to help themselves by reporting bugs and deficiencies, which hopefully then won't end up in retail. walt.farrell 1 Quote Experienced Quality Assurance Manager - I strive for excellence in complex professional illustrations through efficient workflows in modern applications, supporting me in achieving my and my colleagues' goals through the most achievable usability and contemporary, easy-to-use user interfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 I'm on Windows 10, and I don't see this behavior. The recent files lists are different. Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted February 23 Staff Share Posted February 23 15 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Meaning, that the RC builds use the retail Preferences, etc? That is what I was told - yes. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 5 minutes ago, Chris B said: That is what I was told - yes. Personally I think, that this is a BAD idea. After your post I checked again and saw that assets are also shared. Does this mean beta and retail use the SAME data? Or copied data? So working on the beta can damage the assets or not? Not sharing anything between beta and retail has the benefit, that I can test the beta to its limits, without worrying to damage something. If data is really shared I have to think over, if I am taking a risk using the betas. Yes, I know. Backups are a must. Recovering backups during work take their time. Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 23 Staff Share Posted February 23 Hi @joe_l What Chris said isn't strictly true and was a result of a slight misunderstanding. When the software is built it is built into two different variations; one is a Customer Beta, and the other is a full Retail Build (which is what gets released to the Affinity Store). Whilst the code is predominatly the same, there are a few changes in them when it comes to licensing (i.e no Customer Betas will ever offer trials, and always require a valid software licence to run), and lastly one of the major differences is where it stores its preferences and settings. For Windows a Customer Beta will store its settings in the following locations*: %UserProfile%\.affinity\Common\2.0 (Beta)\ - for files shared between apps (of the same build type i.e Beta) i.e Assets, Brushes, Styles, Store downloaded content etc %UserProfile%\.affinity\Designer\2.0 (Beta)\ - for App specific settings and preferences For a Retail build it will store the same settings in similar, but slightly different location* %UserProfile%\.affinity\Common\2.0\ - noting the lack of (Beta) in the pathname %UserProfile%\.affinity\Designer\2.0\ - noting the lack of (Beta) in the pathname For recent documents these are stored in a file called RecentFiles.xml which is stored inside (For the Designer Customer Beta): %UserProfile%\.affinity\Designer\2.0 (Beta)\settings\ This means that the 2.4.0 Beta will store Recents in a separate location to the 2.3.1 Retail downloaded from the Affinity Store. There is an option inside the Customer Beta to Copy Settings & Content from Release apps, which will copy over this data and the Recents are part of this, so you may have done that. I assume you haven't created any custom aliases within Windows to link the two locations? With that said can I confirm that you're saying that opening a document in the Retail app will then show up in the Beta Recents list inside the app? If that is the case could you attach a video (of your whole screen) demonstrating this behaviour please? Also if you could take a copy of the Log.txt files from the locations above (changing the app name for the one you're using) after you close each app and attach those that would also be helpful. Thanks, *These locations are given for the MSIX builds - For EXE users these paths are slightly different: %AppData%\Affinity\Common\2.0 (Beta)\ - For Beta Common %AppData%\Affinity\Designer\2.0 (Beta)\ - For Beta Designer %AppData%\Affinity\Common\2.0\ - For Retail Common %AppData%\Affinity\Designer\2.0 (Beta)\ - For Retail Designer walt.farrell and joe_l 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe_l Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Oh dear. I have to apologize. At some point I must have imported the contents of the retail version into the Beta without thinking about it too much (if there was thinking involved in any way). Everything is sorted now. Feel free to delete this irritating, embarrassing thread. Sean P 1 Quote ---------- Windows 10 / 11, Complete Suite Retail and Beta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted February 23 Staff Share Posted February 23 Don't be silly - just glad to hear that nothing has gone catastrophically wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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