irokiee Posted April 24 Posted April 24 Affinity Designer has a problem refreshing linked Affinity Photo files. It does not refresh images after editing in Photo, or after closing Designer, or after re-linking. Only editing the photo in Designer and saving the file refreshes the image in the project. Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
NotMyFault Posted April 24 Posted April 24 Normally when you go to Ressource Manager it shows „update“ for files which have been changed. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
NotMyFault Posted April 24 Posted April 24 Seems by design https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/placeImages.html Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
Hangman Posted April 25 Posted April 25 Hi @irokiee, Do you have Automatically update linked resources when modified externally ticked in the General section of Designer's Settings? Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 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
irokiee Posted April 25 Author Posted April 25 Hangman - Yes of course... NotMyFault - If it worked I wouldn't report it... ok... it seems that the problem occurs when the Affinity photo object is grouped with other objects... in ungrouped objects the refresh works... I don't know if it should behave like that... I should probably change the title of the post... Hangman 1 Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Staff NathanC Posted April 29 Staff Posted April 29 Hi @irokiee, Do you have a shareable sample set of files where you're encountering this issue? I've attempted to replicate this with the apps positioned side by side and a linked .afphoto file nested into the group in Designer. Any modifications made to the .afphoto file in Photo automatically updated the linked resource as expected in the Designer Doc, provided I had 'Automatically update linked resources enabled', so perhaps there's something I'm missing. I can provide a private upload link if required. Many thanks Hangman 1 Quote
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 I'm attaching a video of what's happening... it's random actually because once it's ungrouped it updates the changes in the *.aphoto file and now for example it doesn't update... as you can see even relinking doesn't update the view. Only editing the Aphoto file in Designer updates its view... I'll probably have to delete the folder in Appdata and maybe it will turn out that the problem will solve itself...słoik.afphototest.afdesign2025-04-30 17-43-19.mkv Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Old Bruce Posted April 30 Posted April 30 The name in the Designer Document isn't the same as the Photo Document you uploaded. From Designer Here is what you uploaded. NotMyFault and David Soeiro 2 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
NotMyFault Posted April 30 Posted April 30 FYI, if I open the test file in designer and try to open the linked file, I get immediate crash in beta. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 Gentlemen, the file has Polish characters... sloik.afphototest.afdesign it seems your system does not support it... I will attach a file without Polish characters for you in a moment... Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
NotMyFault Posted April 30 Posted April 30 2 minutes ago, irokiee said: Gentlemen, the file has Polish characters... it seems your system does not support it... I will attach a file without Polish characters for you in a moment... For me the file name shows correct. But it might be the factor causing the issue. Handling of UTF file names is difficult across platforms. many apps, even OS do it wrong. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 yes, but the changed name (I checked it just now) behaves the same as in the movie Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
NotMyFault Posted April 30 Posted April 30 I can reproduce the issue on iPad, but the symptoms are a bit different. Download both files into „download“ folder. opened sloik file in Photo and made a edit and saved back opened test file in Designer. The ressource managed popups and claims missing ressources if I choose „relink“, and select the sloik file, no update of changes content appears. i save designer file i reopen designer file again a missing resource is shown. After a second run or relink designer updates the rendering. whenever I try to tap on the linked file before the link has been re-established, designer crashes. after using „replace“, no more crash happens. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 exactly sometimes my Designer experiences random shutdowns... I thought that maybe the memory is a bit unstable (before I worked at 3000 speed and now I can 3200 - after changing the processor from Ryzen 7 2700X) but the memory tests did not show anything and I even went back to 3000 and it is exactly the same... David Soeiro 1 Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Well colour me thick. I can’t see any downloadable files in this exchange anywhere. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 really? Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Hangman Posted April 30 Posted April 30 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: The name in the Designer Document isn't the same as the Photo Document you uploaded. This appears correctly for me in Sonoma and on Windows... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 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
Old Bruce Posted April 30 Posted April 30 1 hour ago, irokiee said: I will attach a file without Polish characters for you in a moment... These (non Polish names) files seem to work as expected here on my Mac. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Hangman Posted April 30 Posted April 30 It works as expected on Mac, but there appears to be a syncing issue on Windows where updating the .afphoto file and syncing it with the .afdesign file is one step behind. Update Linked Files.mp4 Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 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
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 as I mentioned, changing the file name and re-linking it doesn't help... it will probably end with deleting the directory from AppData... Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30 Posted April 30 Ok, so the downloadable files are showing up as images here on my iPad. So they can’t be downloadable. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
Hangman Posted April 30 Posted April 30 1 minute ago, irokiee said: As I mentioned, changing the file name and re-linking it doesn't help... The filename isn't the issue, it appears to be a syncing bug on Windows... Quote Affinity Designer 2.6.3 | Affinity Photo 2.6.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.3 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
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 ugh... Windows again... and I was wondering whether to update the processor or maybe buy a Mac Mini :D... but I decided that I have more programs for Windows and on Mac I would only have Affinity.... Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
Affinity-Inspiration Posted April 30 Posted April 30 On 4/24/2025 at 8:26 PM, NotMyFault said: Normally when you go to Ressource Manager it shows „update“ for files which have been changed. I thought this whole issue was iPad related. Specifically iPad 11. Most replies seem to be desktop related. Quote iPad Mini 6. 256GB. My GoTo design platform. M2 Mac Mini. 24GB. LG 4K Monitor. + Samsung Monitor 2. Windows 10 Toshiba. Windows 11 Parallels on Mac. Publisher. Designer. Photo for Mac, PC & iOS. FCP, DaVinci, CapCut, Luma Fusion. etc. @Affinity-Inspiration on YouTube.
irokiee Posted April 30 Author Posted April 30 Hangman - you are exactly right... it is one step back... including saving files... because opening the saved .afdesign does not result in refreshing the attached .afphoto Affinity-Inspiration - but buddy - I'm writing this in the Windows problems section Quote Windows 11 Pro X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) - 32GB RAM - Ryzen 9 5950X - NVidia 2060 - Huion Kamvas Pro 20 + tilt (2019) LG Ultrawide LG 25UB55 - calibrated Colormunki Create - open source software Display Cal 3.8.3
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