Beachball on export Affinity Photo 2.6.2

[TomM1]

Export an image, spinning beachball.

The image at the destination will display a double suffix until the stall is over.

See attachment.

 

[R C-R]

Not much info to work with, so:

Just one file or any exported to a tiff? If you export to say JPEG, does the same thing happen?

What export settings are you using?

Where is the .afphoto file stored, where are you exporting it to, & is either location in a cloud service or managed/synced with one?

[TomM1]

Jpg and tiff.

Not necessarily from an afphoto file, can start as a jpg.

Export to desktop.

At the moment the issue isn't happening. Will pay more attention the next time it does.

[MikeTO]

It's because your file really is named Rack25.tiff.tiff and in Settings > General you have selected "Hide File Extension".

The file extension is visible while Affinity saves the file and then hidden when the save is completed.

Select the file in Finder and choose File > Get Info and deselect Hide Extension to see the full filename. You can then correct it and hide the extension again if you want.

[TomM1]

I have deselected Hide File Extension in AP although I don't see what that was doing anyway.

Hide Extension was not selected in finder.

I will see what happens.

[TomM1]

Still happens randomly.

 

[Ron P.]

How are you naming your files? It seems they are getting the extension (jpg) twice. This confuses the OS. Just delete the last .jpg. 

[TomM1]

The double extension only appears during export (while the file is already at the export location) and disappears after the spinning beach ball ends.

I am not typing in the extension.

 

[nickbatz]

I don't think I've seen double extensions, but the beachball on quit or export happens quite often, I think mostly with large files but definitely with specific ones more than others.

The good news is that doesn't lose your work - there's always a recovery file - but it's a good idea to save before exporting and possibly having to force quit.

 

[Old Bruce]

The only time I have seen doubled extensions is from version 1 and perhaps some early releases of version 2. 

To get them I would place images into a Designer file, the layer name would be the file name including the file extension. Then using the Export Persona make a slice from that layer and I get the doubled extension. 

I guess an old file from Version 1 would have the file name as the layer name. The new version of Designer does include the placed file's name but it is in brackets and would have to be manually written in now.

There doesn't appear to be a setting in preferences for the placed file's layer to be named automatically.