Australian Zoomer Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 (I'm not sure if this is a Bug or a Feature Request, so please feel free to re-file it as appropriate.) Affinity Designer (as of 1.4.2) uses special black document windows that don't have a standard Mac proxy icon in them. I can't, for example, open the containing folder of a document (a really common task!), without a lot of extra work. Another common task I have is just figuring out where something lives: a file might be called "Logo", and I want to make sure it's in the right folder. The quickest workaround I found to open the containing folder is: focus the AD document window, Save As, see where it's saved, cancel, switch to the Finder, Go to Folder, and type in the path. Clearly, that's a pain. In every other Mac application I have, it's simply: command-click the name in the titlebar (don't even need to focus the window), and select the first item there. It would be great if Affinity Designer supported the standard/quick/easy Mac way! In fact, that sentence pretty much describes all of my gripes with AD. :-) cheers! messismore, BennyD, cosmotic and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 To see where an opened file lives, go to the File menu and scroll down to Reveal In Finder. A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Australian Zoomer Posted July 9, 2016 Author Share Posted July 9, 2016 Wow. OK, that's strange. I never would have guessed that. It's also not as useful as the normal way. I can't see at a glance if my file is saved yet. I can't see the whole path unless I Reveal In Finder and then command-click the proxy icon there. I can't drag the file directly from the app, instead having to view it in the Finder first. Thanks for the workaround, but it's still a pain, and I wish AD just used the normal way. Ricardo Costa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty5 Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 I use Apple's standard Proxy icons every day. They have multiple uses, one of those being to quickly identify a files path. Most users will have files saved in any number of locations, so access to the files proxy icon is a real time saver. Please consider adding Apple's Proxy icons to Affinity documents. Examples attached. BennyD, lepr and Ricardo Costa 3 Quote rusty - Macintosh: macOS Big Sur 11.1. Memory 16 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 Wow … LilleG … I would never have noticed this option I fear … LilleG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted October 11, 2017 Share Posted October 11, 2017 (By the way, this menu item should be greyed out when a file has never been saved …) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Costa Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 On 11/10/2017 at 0:54 PM, rusty5 said: I use Apple's standard Proxy icons every day. They have multiple uses, one of those being to quickly identify a files path. Most users will have files saved in any number of locations, so access to the files proxy icon is a real time saver. Please consider adding Apple's Proxy icons to Affinity documents. Examples attached. Hear, hear. I use that proxy icon and its folder shortcuts everyday. To not have them is, at best, annoying. My favorite use for them is to navigate directly to a subjacent folder in its hierarchy. It's awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BennyD Posted July 3, 2019 Share Posted July 3, 2019 +1 any updates here? Quote ___♥___ | | | | | | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmotic Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I just went to use this feature assuming it would work and it didn't and was pretty disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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