bbiesele Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Affinity 2.4.1 on a Mac mini circa 2020, Sonoma 14.2.1 (23C71): Trying to pick just the JPG's out of a folder of alias's (see attached screen shot) Affinity/New Focus Merge -> New Focus Merge/Add Then navigate to select folder... Clicking on a file will highlight that file and deselect any others Clicking on a file and then Shift Clicking on another gives inconsistent results: won't select any other files for the top of the list (_P172183.JPG thru _P172189.ORF), but it seems to work from there to the end of the list. Using a folder of files, not alias's seems to work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hi @bbiesele, Cmd-Click should allow you to select non sequential files... Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbiesele Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 It should, but it doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 I'm unsure why, it seems to be working as expected here... Focus Merge.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbiesele Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 So... I went to record it failing on my machine and it worked fine! So good job on fixing it that quick<\irony> Maybe what happened is: I tend to leave affinity open for days with multiple open files. I hadn't closed affinity for several days of work when I saw the failure; but, I did close it last night. But then I went to record the screen when it worked, and now it doesn't work. This is the recording; unfortunately it does not show the unsuccessful clicks; but they are when the cursor pause over a file; going down screen where command clicks, upscreen was shift clicks Looks like you did a thorough job of trying to recreate the issue, even to the point of using the same file names. Screen Recording 2024-03-28 at 10.52.09 AM.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 Hi @bbiesele, The only real difference I can see is that you are selecting Aliases on an externally mounted drive, not that it should make any difference... Out of interest, why are you selecting Alias's rather than the source files... Where are the Source files actually located? Quote Affinity Designer 2.4.2 | Affinity Photo 2.4.2 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.2 Affinity Designer Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Photo Beta 2.5.0 (2415) | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.5.0 (2415) Affinity Designer 1.7.3 | Affinity Photo 1.7.3 | Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 MacBook Pro 16GB, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, Magic Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbiesele Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 I'm using these directories of aliases to group shots; i.e. all the shots in a focus stack. The aliases point one level up; the originals are in the same directory as the directories of aliases. In the above video the originals are in the 2024_03_17 directory. Olympus puts data in the exif/MakerNotes to identify the drive mode and the number of the shot in the group. I have a python script to read the exif data and create the subdirectories and the aliases. This makes it easier to find shots to stack. Wouldn't it be neat if you could use that exif data to automate the file selection? Pick the first file in the series and automatically load all the files in that series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbiesele Posted March 28 Author Share Posted March 28 The other difference, if you signature line is correct is the macOS version, you are on 12.6.8 and this machine is 14.2.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbiesele Posted March 29 Author Share Posted March 29 Changed the script to move instead of link. Affinity seems happy now. I'd rather use links, but for now this workaround works. I've seen other software have problems with links under MacOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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