MikeTO Posted February 3 Posted February 3 This test doc has two stories. Story 2 starts on page 4 (left). If I delete the blank page 3, former page 4 becomes linked to the left page of spread 2-3 which is the problem, leading to the complete loss of story 2. I experienced the loss of a story in my own book today but I had a backup from a couple of hours earlier which helped me figure out the cause. delete page.afpub Screen Recording 2025-02-03 at 12.03.44 AM.mov Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Hangman Posted February 3 Posted February 3 Hi @MikeTO, I can replicate this with your test file but not when creating what appears to be an identical document from scratch... Were there any additional steps involved to arrive at your document state or is there something different about the attached document that I'm missing... Your Document vs a New Document Created from Scratch Delete Page.mp4 New Document Delete Page v2.afpub Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.3125 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.3125 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.3125 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted February 3 Staff Posted February 3 An issue raised in this thread ("Deleting a page in the middle of 2 stories can lose one of the stories") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-5783). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us. Quote
Staff Sean P Posted February 3 Staff Posted February 3 For what its worth I've found a recipe to reproduce this, but not exactly sure its the same road you took Mike. It seems to be adding between the split, that is causing it to occur. See video and attached file with history. Start a new document Facing Pages Start on: Right Pages 4 Draw a text frame on each side of Master A and link them together Link the frame on Page 1 to Page 2 Add identifying text S1P1 to the frame on Page 1, then insert a column break and add S1P2 This should add S1P1 on Page 1 and S1P2 on Page 2 Click the Link Frame button on Page 2 and then click the same frame to break it Link the frame on Page 3 to the frame on Page 4 Add identifying text S2P1 to the frame on Page 3, then insert a column break and add S2P2 This should add S2P1 on Page 3 and S2P2 on Page 4 Go to the Pages Panel and select ‘Add Pages’ with the following options: Pages 1: After: Page 2 Spread Wrapping: Flow Pages ✅ You should now have a page with no content between S1P2 and S2P1 In the Pages Panel delete Page 3 - note clearing masters first doesn’t seem to change the outcome ❌The second set of text (S2P1, S2P2) has gone missing. MastersBehavingBadly.mp4 BrokenDoc.afpub Hangman 1 Quote
Staff Sean P Posted February 3 Staff Posted February 3 5 hours ago, MikeTO said: I experienced the loss of a story in my own book today but I had a backup from a couple of hours earlier which helped me figure out the cause. Also as a workaround you can set 'Split Masters' in the Page Move Options and that should stop this behaviour happening. Quote
MikeTO Posted February 3 Author Posted February 3 @Sean P When I noticed the lost story it took me an hour to figure out how to recreate it with my real document document and then just 2 minutes to recreate with a new document, but when I tried it again just now I, like @Hangman I couldn't do it using what I thought were the same steps. So I'm glad you figured it out. Thanks. Sean P 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Staff Affinity Info Bot Posted February 7 Staff Posted February 7 The issue "Deleting a page in the middle of 2 stories can lose one of the stories" (REF: AF-5783) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.3106). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release. Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions. If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us. Quote
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