tool bar wont show up

[DASSTERLING]

Hi, i was working on a file and came ack to it later and the top and left side bars were gone. I force quite the app, restarted my computer, also deleted affinity and redownloaded it and the problem is still here. Please help ! 

[MikeTO]

Hi @DASSTERLING and welcome to the forums. if you press the Tab key it toggles off the user interface so you can focus on the image or page. Press Tab again to toggle on the user interface.

Burt if you toggle it off and then delelect View > Hide Studio, you will get what you're shown and the Tab key will be no help. You will now have to choose View > Show Context Toolbar, Show Toolbar, and Show Tools. Once you've chosen those three commands you should be back to normal. Then press Tab twice to see the effect.

Cheers

[DASSTERLING]

23 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Hi @DASSTERLING and welcome to the forums. if you press the Tab key it toggles off the user interface so you can focus on the image or page. Press Tab again to toggle on the user interface.

Burt if you toggle it off and then delelect View > Hide Studio, you will get what you're shown and the Tab key will be no help. You will now have to choose View > Show Context Toolbar, Show Toolbar, and Show Tools. Once you've chosen those three commands you should be back to normal. Then press Tab twice to see the effect.

Cheers

Thank you so much Mike ! I really appreciate your help !! Happy Holidays 🎊

[R C-R]

On 12/13/2024 at 2:45 PM, DASSTERLING said:

I force quite the app, restarted my computer, also deleted affinity and redownloaded it and the problem is still here.

For future reference, on macOS reinstalling the Affinity (& many other) modern apps rarely fixes anything other than a missing or corrupted application level file, which isn't likely to happen. This is because these apps support multiple user accounts so most settings are stored in per user files that are not touched by reinstalling the app. 

For the Affinities, there is a provision to selectively reset these per user files via restarting the app with the CTRL key held down.