Duplicated symbol becomes group

[Intuos5]

I have found a way to reproduce that a duplicated symbol becomes a group. This has been troubling me for quite some time, because occasional groups can ruin the efficiency of symbols, because you have to manually go back to make them into a symbol (not to mention any non-synced edits done to them).

 

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a shape > turn it onto a symbol
2. Deactivate syncing in the symbol studio
3. Duplicate the symbol from step 1
4. Notice how the symbol becomes a group (with sync enabled this doesn't happen).

This is Affinity Designer 2.4.1, Windows 10.0.19045.

[Dan C]

Thanks for your report @Intuos5!

I can confirm that this is a known issue which is currently logged with our team - I'll be sure to 'bump' and update this report for you now.

I hope this helps