macOS Photo : Opening Files

[ronnyb]

Certainly not a bug, probably a side-effect of parallel / multi-threaded file loading and disk access:

Dragging a selection of files from the Finder into empty APhoto app window opens files in random/fastest order. It would be great if Affinity Suite respected the file order in current Finder window, be it Sorted/Grouped by name, Date, Size, Last Opened, etc.

This is for workflow purposes of course; when working with many files comparatively.

Thanks for your consideration

[GarryP]

Is this something which is specific to the beta?

[Hangman]

Hi @ronnyb,

Unfortunately, this is a long-standing problem dating back to V1 so not unique to the Beta... I reported it here back in 2019 but since then the situation has actually become worse...

If you open a series of images and re-order them so they appear sequentially from left to right, adding additional images will then re-order your neatly ordered tabs so they all appear out of order again, i.e., open say ten images with a _01, _02, _03 filename suffixes, they will appear in a random order once opened, re-order the tabs so they appear sequentially...

Now add another five images with _11, _12, _13, _14, _15 filename suffixes and your sequentially ordered _01 to _10 images all appear out of order again...

[ronnyb]

2 hours ago, Hangman said:

Hi @ronnyb,

Unfortunately, this is a long-standing problem dating back to V1 so not unique to the Beta... I reported it here back in 2019 but since then the situation has actually become worse...

If you open a series of images and re-order them so they appear sequentially from left to right, adding additional images will then re-order your neatly ordered tabs so they all appear out of order again, i.e., open say ten images with a _01, _02, _03 filename suffixes, they will appear in a random order once opened, re-order the tabs so they appear sequentially...

Now add another five images with _11, _12, _13, _14, _15 filename suffixes and your sequentially ordered _01 to _10 images all appear out of order again...

Thanks @Hangman I came back to report just that... It's not unfortunate, it's by someone's choice/decision to continue ignoring bugs. Who is that person?

I guess it's just another "issue" not worthy of being addressed by Affinity —yet they continue marketing the software for "professionals." This is just basic stuff that drives you insane if you have to work regularly with this software.

We also can't save to cloud, usb, or network drives reliably for a decade now? So many USABILITY "issues" are ignored (but they'll add a garbage, AI Auto Selection feature; that's a just great way to use the limited resources of their developers and beta testers...

It's becoming more and more of a hindrance dealing with this suite and the lack of seriousness Affinity shows towards getting the basics right or addressing the needs of it's (professional) users.

AFFINITY: UI and UX ARE REAL "ISSUES" TO FIX. STOP WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME WITH USELESS, GARBAGE "FEATURES". STOP MOVING MY TABS AROUND, MAKING MY WORK HARDER! FIX THE DAMN BASICS ALREADY!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Opening multiple numbered files should display document tabs in the order they are numbered.") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: APL-511). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[Pauls]

I've added your report to the improvement issue - it would be nice if they honoured the order presented by the operating system

[ronnyb]

21 hours ago, Pauls said:

I've added your report to the improvement issue - it would be nice if they honoured the order presented by the operating system

Thanks @Pauls i appreciate you trying to get this old issue resolved