Recovery of the Session

[C3PO]

Hello i encountered a problem wich may just lay  in settings im unable to find.

Whenever i close affinity photo without saving and reopen the program i am given the option to "recover" the last pictures i was working on 

but all the adjustments i made are gone its just the image(es) after the Raw development.

I was able to temper with a recoverey file  by copying and saving as  .afphoto  and to recover all the adjustmens and layers for one picture . unfortunetly i had multible pictures open and was working on them simultaniusly wich were not in taht recovery file

The last version of Affinity Photo let me recover everything also wenn i wasnt saving it. I simply could reopen it and start from where i left

i would like to be able to do that again! 

if someone knows what is going please explain what can be done about it :)

[PaulEC]

Hi @C3PO Welcome to the forum.

What you’re describing sounds more like what you might expect on an iPad, but you’ve posted in the desktop section of the forum, what OS are you actually using?

[Hangman]

Hi @C3PO and welcome to the forums,

This is unfortunately a known bug logged under AF-3518 in the current version of the Affinity apps... It happens when the ~lock~ file isn't deleted when closing the file...

There are several triggers for the bug on Mac, most of which are Publisher-specific but a couple of the same triggers apply to Photo as well and a couple on Windows but the hope is that these will be fixed in the v2.6 Beta.

If you've not saved the changes made to the file before closing it, opening the recovery file won't maintain those changes which is why you see what you're seeing... If the last version of Photo was maintaining any changes you'd made to the file this may be a different issue...

[C3PO]

Thanks for the Responses

Im using it on Windows 10 

I also was using the previus Version and there i sind encountered that "problem" 

I noticed it for some time that my Projecs were not saved as they used to be. I just hat an Importent Session when accetentely shut down my pc instead of power save and i had the same issue than before that all my progress was los. 

If this is simply a bug i might have to save a copy of one picture once in a while to have at least all the layers saved so i can copy and paste it to the other ones. And then i have to wait for an Uptade that might fix that Problem. 

 

Since both Version were installed at some point i also noticed that the safe files were not in the same locations (version 1 already deletet) 

And its not just that the safe files betwen both apps were safed in different folders like 1.0 and 2.0 

Its a couple folders higher in there hirarchy where it differs 

Im not that technical of a guy 

Just want to give as much as Information to solve that mistery 

Have a great day to all! 

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, C3PO said:

And its not just that the safe files betwen both apps were safed in different folders like 1.0 and 2.0 

Its a couple folders higher in there hirarchy where it differs 

Please show us the complete path names, or a screenshot that shows the difference.

[C3PO]

Sorry for the late Response 

 

The two paths are the following

 

C:\Users\Von Mir\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\autosave 

C:\Users\Von Mir\affinity\Photo\2.0\autosave 

I dont think i chose a different place to install on either of the Versions

And probably just spamed enter during the Installation process 

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, C3PO said:

C:\Users\Von Mir\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\autosave 

C:\Users\Von Mir\affinity\Photo\2.0\autosave 

Thanks. That difference just indicates that for V2 you have used the MSIX installer, which puts the data in a different location than the EXE/MSI installer uses. And for V1, the EXE/MSI installer was the only one available.

By the way, you have a small typo in the second line, which should have .affinity (with a leading .) not just affinity.

[C3PO]

So the two different paths have nothing to do with my saving error i assume? 

 

Yes my bad

i looked it up from the pc and typed it in here via Smartphone 

 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, C3PO said:

So the two different paths have nothing to do with my saving error i assume? 

Correct.

On 8/31/2024 at 4:54 PM, C3PO said:

Whenever i close affinity photo without saving and reopen the program i am given the option to "recover" the last pictures i was working on 

but all the adjustments i made are gone its just the image(es) after the Raw development.

...

The last version of Affinity Photo let me recover everything also wenn i wasnt saving it. I simply could reopen it and start from where i left

If you want the document contents, you should not close without saving.

While you may get a recovery prompt when you reopen the application, it will be somewhat downlevel (with the default settings, on average you would lose 5 minutes of work) and this is true even in V1.

And you may not get a prompt. In particular, if you're working with a previously-saved file (e.g., one with a  name), you wouldn't be prompted until you try to reopen that same file again. But also, if you haven't been working long enough for an autosave to happen, you won't get prompted.

[C3PO]

I get what you mean 

That it is always better to save documents so i dont have to hope that my files get automaticly saved 

How ever i have a couple of things to say about that 

1. The previus Version (affinity 1.0) as well as 2.0 had at some point saved all my Projecs and could reopen where i left it off even without saving the Project/s manually

2. I still get a message that asks me to recover the last Session

But it doesn't work for some reason

It just opens it like any other new raw file

I dont quite understand that behavior. I hope it can be fixed 

3. That might be a user error from my side 

But when i work on pictures for example i took a bunch from the rising sun 

I open a couple and work on them simultanuisly 

When i save one as a project 

And open it again then it works as expected but only for that one picture 

Is there a way to save all of them at once without having to go to every Single Image, saving and naming it? 

[CarlaG]

Hi all

Whenever I close a file i always save it.. Its a habit but even then when I open the file again ..

message says Open recovery file? why is that?

 

thanks

[PaulEC]

Maybe I'm just out of touch with modern practise, but I can't get my head around why anyone would not save a file before they close it (unless, of course, they don't want to save any changes). Surely hitting Ctrl+S is not that much effort, after the trouble and time spent editing a file, to ensure that it has been saved correctly!

[R C-R]

20 hours ago, C3PO said:

1. The previus Version (affinity 1.0) as well as 2.0 had at some point saved all my Projecs and could reopen where i left it off even without saving the Project/s manually

Are you sure about that? I have never seen any version of Affinity, old or current, automatically save an unsaved document file unless I told it to via the Save command.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

Are you sure about that? I have never seen any version of Affinity, old or current, automatically save an unsaved document file unless I told it to via the Save command.

Me, neither. Both V1 and V2 simply throw away any changes if you close them and say "no" when asked about saving.

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, CarlaG said:

but even then when I open the file again ..

message says Open recovery file? why is that?

There are some known bugs that cause that to happen.

[C3PO]

On 9/21/2024 at 6:24 PM, R C-R said:

Are you sure about that? I have never seen any version of Affinity, old or current, automatically save an unsaved document file unless I told it to via the Save command.

Yes i am sure about that 

I frequently closed the program when ever i didn't feel like working on a Projekt and reopened it Later

Where i was ask to recover the last Session and everything was fine