My Affinity Photo is opening a connection to amazonaws!

[jkehoe]

Hi Everyone,

 

I'm stumped by this one and searching the web doesn't offer much help. Every time I launch Affinity Photo 1.4.1, my Mac opens a connection to s3-1.amazonaws.com on their port 443. Every time. The port opens, waits, then closes. I've attached a small screen capture below—it's from running the Terminal application and using the command nettop - P (you can read about it by typing "man nettop" without the quotes). For those unfamiliar with this, the attached image shows:

Affinity Photo.611, which means that it started Process ID 611.

The next line indicates my Mac is using TCP/IP version 4 and its IP address is 192.168.1.104. Affinity Photo Process ID 611 opened a connection on my Mac via its port number 50120 (a socket). I am reasonably sure that this is not a virus, it's just a connection to some data center that gets dropped almost immediately.

 

Some time ago I set my Aperture to use Affinity Photo as an external editor, but Aperture doesn't open a connection to amazonaws.com. It does open a connection to Yahoo because (I think) I had added the Flickr uploader app.

 

I have disabled the Flickr app in Aperture and reset Affinity Photo by holding the Control key upon launch; it didn't solve this weird problem.

 

Also, Affinity Designer doesn't do this at all. I don't know how I got this to happen and will probably uninstall Affinity Photo and start over.

 

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks

John

 

[Andy Somerfield]

Hi John,

 

Photo is downloading the most uptodate list of supported Photoshop Plugins - which we host on Amazon S3 :)

 

Hope this helps,

 

Andy.

[jkehoe]

Hi Andy,

 

Thank you so much! However, I have never installed any version of Photoshop or Lightroom on this Mac. I have no Plugins.

 

Feature request: can this be disabled in a future update? In other words, can a preference setting be offered to disable Photoshop plugins?

 

Thanks again,

John

[R C-R]

I could be mistaken, but as I understand it all AP is doing is downloading the most up-to-date list of Photoshop plugins Affinity knows AP can fully support. This is used with one of the AP > Preferences > Photoshop Plugins options, which allows you to choose to exclude any Photoshop type plugins you may have installed not on that list or access them all. You also have the option of not using any PS plugins at all.

 

It has nothing directly to do with having Photoshop (or any other Adobe product) installed. For example, you can download the now free Nik Collection of plugins from Google, some of which are known to work with AP & others not.

 

Staff member MEB also maintains a web page with more info on what PS plugins work with AP here. They are all third party plugins.