vpkumar Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 I have a windows 11 laptop with both SSD and HDD. I amnow reinstalling Affinity photo v2.5. I would like to know whther the program should be installed on SSD or HDD. Also if I install the program on SDD can i configure that all my projects and other data etc. can be stored on the HDD as the storage space on SDD is limited. If someone could advice me on how to do this, I would be grateful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 An SSD drive is typically faster than an HDD drive so I would install it there Your projects can be stored on any drive you like but it is recommended that it's an internal drive rather than an external drive or networked drive (for reliability reasons) vpkumar 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 HDD can be used for storage, the SSD would have the OS and apps. Which model laptop do you have? older laptop motherboards can be a bottleneck for new SSD hard drives, if the SATA interface is slower than the SDD rated speeds. Is the SSD an upgrade or installed from factory? Model and size? Is the SSD built onto the motherboard as chip? Is the HDD external or internal, (I have an old windows laptop that can take two hard drives.) Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpkumar Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 @firstdefence My laptop is I5 8th Gen. The SSD was installed later and is not built in.The HDD is internal as shipped originally.. I have now installed the windos OS on the SDD. The thing is my SDD is only 256gb. SO it cannot take too many programs and data. That is why I was thinking of installing only the Sffinity program on the SDD and all other data and storage on the HDD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 30 minutes ago, vpkumar said: @firstdefence My laptop is I5 8th Gen. The SSD was installed later and is not built in.The HDD is internal as shipped originally.. I have now installed the windos OS on the SDD. The thing is my SDD is only 256gb. SO it cannot take too many programs and data. That is why I was thinking of installing only the Sffinity program on the SDD and all other data and storage on the HDD. That is small by today's standards but still big enough to take Windows 11 (approx 25GB) and Affinity Apps (at roughly 3GB per app, inc caches), add a few more apps into a 16GB space and you're still going to have Approx 200GB ish to play with. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vpkumar Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 I installed the latest version of affinity Photo 2.5.3 in my SSD. Now the program opens, but when I open any jpeg file or even try to create a new document, the prgram crashes and closes. What have I done wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 6 hours ago, vpkumar said: I installed the latest version of affinity Photo 2.5.3 in my SSD. Now the program opens, but when I open any jpeg file or even try to create a new document, the prgram crashes and closes. What have I done wrong? Likely nothing, I'm on Sonoma 14.6.1 and Affinity Photo works fine. Might be corrupt install, you can try this in the following post... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 7 hours ago, vpkumar said: but when I open any jpeg file or even try to create a new document, the prgram crashes and closes. That is often a sign of a problem with the GPU drivers: firstdefence 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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