In the Recent panel ( if it is a panel) .afphoto files have no thumbnail image, why?

[Peter Brass]

In the Recent panel ( if it is a panel) .afphoto files have no thumbnail image, why?

[Komatös]

Hello and welcome to the forums, @Peter Brass

I'm not sure what you mean!
Do you mean an empty preview image in the layer list of the layer panel?
Can you please provide us with a screenshot of the application.
 

[R C-R]

I assume you mean the File > Open Recent > More... window titled "Recent" right? If so, if you click once on one of the blank thumbnails, a file path should be shown for it at the bottom of the window. You can click on the arrow at the left of that path or right-click on the thumbnail & get a short menu to locate where the file is stored ... but that wil fail if the file has been deleted or is on a drive that is not currently available.

Does this help at all?

[Peter Brass]

Thank you for the quick replies.

First, let me say that I am know GIMP and Paintshop Pro, and when I get an invite to try a program for 6 months I can't refuse.

So, below is the screen shot with the .afphoto thumbnails blank. It occurs to me now that this might be a Windows thing, .xcf files

are not recognized either, (and there is nothing you can do about it! )

I will check settings again, maybe I missed something.

Anyways, info. and instructions are welcome,

Peter

[R C-R]

7 minutes ago, Peter Brass said:

It occurs to me now that this might be a Windows thing, .xcf files

I know almost nothing about Windows so I hope someone who does can help you figure this out. All I can suggest to you is try clicking in the diagonally pointing upward arrow  at the bottom of that window (where it shows the file-path beginning with C) & see if it opens anything. If not, it suggests something is preventing access to that fie or it has been deleted.

[thomaso]

2 hours ago, Peter Brass said:

the screen shot with the .afphoto thumbnails blank. It occurs to me now that this might be a Windows thing, .xcf files

Have you enabled the option to save a preview with the document in the Affinity settings?

If I understand right, the .xcf file type is native Gimp format. In that case there is no reason for their influence on .afphoto files.

[dominik]

6 hours ago, Peter Brass said:

So, below is the screen shot with the .afphoto thumbnails blank. It occurs to me now that this might be a Windows thing, .xcf files

Hello @Peter Brass,

I'm on Windows and usually I see the thumbnails. Occasionally I try out something and afterwards delete the file outside of Affinity Photo (once it is closed). In those cases the thumbnail is missing and as @R C-R pointed out the 'Show in Explorer' opens a default Explorer window since there is nothing to show.

Perhaps you can doublecheck the location of the files in question on your machine. Perhaps they were moved (or renamed) for some reason.

d.

[Peter Brass]

Hello again.

Yes Thomaso, your suggestion was the solution. I should pay attention to what I am doing. When I reviewed settings I initially decided not to spend the data, then didn't remember that decision! What can you do?

Thanks again everyone

Peter

[walt.farrell]

Note that if it had been the case that the file was moved or deleted, and you clicked to Open it, you would get a popup: 

 

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Note that if it had been the case that the file was moved or deleted, and you clicked to Open it, you would get a popup: 

I'm not seeing that on my Mac. If I try to open a deleted file from Recent nothing happens.

[walt.farrell]

22 hours ago, R C-R said:

I'm not seeing that on my Mac. If I try to open a deleted file from Recent nothing happens.

Interesting. On macOS, for me:

1. Any Recents that have been deleted from the file system are automatically removed from Recents when the application opens.
2. If I delete a file that is in Recents from the file system while Photo 2.5.3 is Open, it remains in Recents and can be Opened again from there. There's probably some kind of connection maintained to the file, due to the way a Unix file system works. But I probably won't play around with this any more at this point,

 

[R C-R]

45 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Interesting. On macOS, for me:

1. For me, I'm not sure if on Open any recently deleted files are removed or not since I almost never quit the V2 apps on my Mac.

2. While the app is open, deleted files do open because (as I expect) they actually are deleted & do not remain in the file system! I am amazed that they do for you. If they are not yet deleted & simply are in the Trash, then they will open; however, if I then empty the Trash, I still get when selecting the (now blank) thumbnail in the Recent window, at the bottom of the window the file path still shows it is in the trashes folder, which it is not.