document could not be opened - Dokument ließ sich nicht öffnen

[Mat67]

Hello,

I get the following message "document could not be opened - the file contains features from a newer affinity version"

(see also attached PDF) when I try to open a file in Affinity Publisher and also with Affinity Photo. These files were sent to me by another person who is using a newer version.

I have version 2.03 for both programs.

Does this mean that you can't open newer versions with older versions of Affinity?

Thanks in advance

 

Hallo,

folgende Meldung "dokument ließ sich nicht öffnen - die datei enthält features aus einer neueren affinity-version"

(siehe auch beigefügtes PDF) erhalte ich wenn ich versuche eine Datei in Affinity Publisher und auch mit Affinity Photo zu öffnen. Diese Dateien hat mir eine andere Person gesendet, die eine neuere Version benutzt.

Ich habe die Version 2.03 für beide Programme.

Bedeuted das, dass man keine neueren versionen mit älteren Versionen von Affinity öffnen kann

Danke im Voraus

 

 

 

 

[GarryP]

5 minutes ago, Mat67 said:

Does this mean that you can't open newer versions with older versions of Affinity?

Yes, it is generally not possible for you to open a document which was saved in a version of the software which has a higher version number than the software you are using.

This isn’t always true, but when the version numbers are significantly different (e.g. 2.6 → 2.0) then it usually is.

In the cases where it is true, the older versions of the software cannot parse/understand newer documents correctly, for various reasons (file format changes, new functionalities, etc.), and so they cannot open them.

[mopperle]

52 minutes ago, Mat67 said:

Bedeuted das, dass man keine neueren versionen mit älteren Versionen von Affinity öffnen kann

ja, ist auch normal und bei jeder anderen Software auch so. Abwärts kompatibel geht, aber aufwärts, wie soll das gehen?

Wenn du eine gültige Affinity V2 Lizenz hast, was hindert dich die aktuelleste Version 2.6.2 zu installieren?

[Mat67]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

Yes, it is generally not possible for you to open a document which was saved in a version of the software which has a higher version number than the software you are using.

This isn’t always true, but when the version numbers are significantly different (e.g. 2.6 → 2.0) then it usually is.

In the cases where it is true, the older versions of the software cannot parse/understand newer documents correctly, for various reasons (file format changes, new functionalities, etc.), and so they cannot open them.

Thanks GarryP for your answer.

This means that people with different versions cannot work together, which could be very bad not only for for business.

[Mat67]

4 hours ago, mopperle said:

ja, ist auch normal und bei jeder anderen Software auch so. Abwärts kompatibel geht, aber aufwärts, wie soll das gehen?

Wenn du eine gültige Affinity V2 Lizenz hast, was hindert dich die aktuelleste Version 2.6.2 zu installieren?

Hallo Otto, danke für deine prompte Antwort.

Aus deiner Antwort schließe ich, dass du denkst die aktuellste Version zu installieren sollte kein Problem sein (ich hab meist im Hinterkopf: never change a running system), man macht ein Update, dann benötigt man einen neuen Rechner (vielleicht übertrieben, aber sinngemäß gemeint). Das ist das Eine.

Das Andere: Man kann mit niemand zusammenarbeiten oder austauschen, der nicht die gleiche Version hat (irgendwie nicht so richtig gut, nicht nur für das geschäftliche)

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, Mat67 said:

This means that people with different versions cannot work together, which could be very bad not only for for business.

Yes, & as mentioned (& as the error message you got says) this is because the file contains features that the older version does not support. So even if the older version just ignored & omitted anything in the file that relied on that, the collaborations would not all be working on the same file with the same content. 

Obviously, this could result in multiple versions of the file, none of which would be 100% identical with the others.

There is no way around this other than making sure all collaborators use the same versions of the Affinity apps.

[mopperle]

15 hours ago, R C-R said:

There is no way around this other than making sure all collaborators use the same versions of the Affinity apps.

And this applies to all kind of software as I have written above, that you can not open a file created in a new version with an old version.

Some software, like Word or Photoshop offer to save it in an old format but that means, that everything based on new features is being stripped to make the file readable for old version. So this is only a stopgap solution. For example Adobe Indesign does not allow at all to open a file from the newest version with an old Indesign version.