Affinity Publisher 2.5.6 crashing on loss of window focus (Win10)

[Louisk]

Hi All,

This is a problem I've had before, which seemed to vanish as mysteriously as it started - but its really impacting my work at the moment. 

When I have Publisher open for a while, then click off into another application, and return, Publisher crashes (goes grey, and has to be closed). Unless I then restart the computer, Affinity will then not boot, getting stuck and crashing on 'loading data'.

A few details:

• OpenGL is turned off
• No crash report is generated in the CrashReports folder
• The file is fairly large, ~650MB, 200 pages, plus a few 100MB of linked resources
• The file is not being accessed by cloud storage programs
• Publisher was much more stable until recently, but nothing changed in my setup/PC AFAIK.

I can't share the file I'm working on publicly.

Thanks!

[NathanC]

Hi @Louisk,

If you could upload the file to the private link below we can see if the issue can be replicated. If the file contains many linked resources you can File > Save as Package > Save to an empty folder in Explorer > Compress to a zip > Upload the zipped folder. This will give us access to all the file's contents.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/ealLsWjGg7L3jazjP0cX

Thanks