Affinity Publisher save/reopen — very unexpected behaviour

[Ian Greig]

I am using Affinity Publisher on an old Powerbook Mac running 10.15.7

The job I have saved and resaved meticulously, reopened as the previous job! 

To explain, I used the 2023 version of a newsletter as a template, deleting all the content and recreating as a 2024 edition, and which I  'saved as' under a new name. I printed out two proof pages and closed the job.

When I came back to it and reopened the new 2024 job it appeared with the old 2023 content blurred and asking me to recreate the links. I tried the file menu and the Mac 'recents' menu. 

The pract ice of using an old doc may not be the best, but I have done it for years in a newspaper environment and also for another job in Affinity with no hint of a problem. So this came as an unpleasant surprise.

Any wisdom or possible solution out there?

[thomaso]

I am sorry, no wisdom nor solution, just interested what may cause this (… unless APub 'just' reopened the 2023 file). Did APub show a 'recovery' dialog window when reopening the document?

Can you tell us where the Affinity document was stored when it got edited, saved respectively reopened? It reminds me of a previous user report where the .afpub file was stored on an external drive with cloud / auto sync software and when reopened it showed the contents of a previous document state.

[Ian Greig]

Yes the file was saved to a cloud location — Google Drive.

I am recreating the job on a new master with embedded assets. I think it might be a ‘serve you right’ lesson for not doing this in the first place.

[thomaso]

37 minutes ago, Ian Greig said:

Yes the file was saved to a cloud location — Google Drive.

Oh, then it might be affected by this Google Drive issue mentioned in Nov. 2023: