What is wrong with Affinity?

[AndyV]

Sorry for the rather sensational headline, but right at the moment I'm on the verge of losing about an hour's worth of work.

It's a relatively small file. If I could save it (which is the problem) it wouldn't be much more than 500kb, maybe even less. It's just two transparent layers each with some hand drawn type, one in one color, one in another. But I'm creating frames of animation so I'm doing this over and over.

I've been doing this all day without a problem. Create the letters, export one layer, export the other layer. That's it.

Now, when I go to export, the first menu pops up just fine. But then I click "Export" and nothing happens.

So then I figured I should close Affinity and reopen. So I go to save the whole thing as an afphoto file. But again, I click to save (or save as) and nothing happens.

Meanwhile, all day I've had Davinci Resolve open because that's where these files will eventually end up. I thought, okay, it eats a lot of memory. And sure enough it was way over my 64gb ram, something like 135gb! So I close it down.

Affinity is STILL not able to export or save.

I just tried to close Affinity and of course it asked me if I wanted to save the file. I clicked save, and again nothing happened.

 

EDIT: I reopened Affinity and oddly enough the file I was working on HAD been saved, unbeknownst to me though. I have no idea how that happened. But then I was able to export each of the layers just fine. So this particular problem was obviously some sort of memory problem, and I won't blame Affinity for it necessarily. DaVinci Resolve went crazy on me and then I ***guess*** Apple O/S couldn't or wouldn't or didn't release the memory so that Affinity could work.

But the status of things must have been like this for awhile.

 

<rant>I have been fighting this program since I started with it a couple of years ago, and I largely blame myself for the difficulties I've been having in transferring my decades of Photoshop work into Affinity. But there are some serious things wrong with this program. I don't want to get into it now. But tonight's experience is really making me wonder how much I should stick with it. I need to work, not fight with the "pencil" I'm using to "draw" with. I have an old XP machine with Photoshop CS2 on it. It's terrible to say that I can often work much faster on things there than I can with Affinity on a Macbook Pro.</rant>