Develop Persona white balance adjustment lost when reconnecting a raw image to its .afphoto file

[KLE-France]

Affinity Photo / version 2.6.0 / Reproducible / Windows 10 Home / hardware acceleration: Off / No unusual hardware / recently discovered; do not know if it happened in the past.

Summary:

Any white balance adjustment done in the Develop Persona is lost when reconnecting a moved raw image file to its .afphoto file.

Recipe:

1. Adjust a raw image in the Develop Persona, including a change to the white balance
2. Develop the image to the Photo Persona, using "Output: Raw Layer (Linked)"
3. Save the .afphoto file then close it.
4. In Window Explorer (or other program), navigate to where the raw file is located and move it elsewhere.
5. Re-open the .afphoto file: this evokes the "Missing Resource(s)" dialog
6. Click "Yes" (or "Resource Manager", but the following uses 'Yes')
7. Navigate to where the raw file was moved to, select it and click "Open"; AP reconnects the .afphoto and raw files
8. ⇒ The image will show all of the adjustments done in the Develop Persona, except for white balance
9. Return to the Develop Persona to verify: On the Basic tab, "White Balance" will be unchecked, and when reopened it will have the original, camera's white balance, not the white balance done at Step 1

 

Thanks and happy bug hunting!

[Ldina]

Yup, same thing happens on my MacBook Pro, M4, Sequoia, whether I choose "Yes" or "Resource Management" and relink. WB resets to original RAW WB, but other settings seem to stay intact. 

Interestingly, if I move my RAW file back to the original folder (where I keep my AfPhoto file), then reopen the AfPhoto file, the WB is remembered as I adjusted it originally. Very strange. Those settings should be saved inside the AfPhoto file, so you would think they'd be remembered regardless of the RAW file location, as long as the link is active. 🤔

[KLE-France]

1 hour ago, Ldina said:

Interestingly, if I move my RAW file back to the original folder (where I keep my AfPhoto file), then reopen the AfPhoto file, the WB is remembered as I adjusted it originally. Very strange.

Woah! Weird!

Confirmed in Windows 10!

I thought for a moment that maybe AP is writing the white balance into the raw file, but when I re-open this latter directly, it does still have the camera's white balance. So it's not that... I think.

Very strange indeed!

 

[Callum]

Hi All,

This is a known issue that has been logged with our developers to be fixed in a future update. I'll update this thread once I have more info.

Thanks
C