Publisher 2 (Win 10) 2.6.2 Crashes on Place command when Linked

[cartographer]

Consistent hard crash (locks up computer, have to restart) when I use the Place command to put in a JPG located on my computer from Dropbox. Dialog comes up asking to Link or not, which I do (just as I would in InDesign). If I click No, then no crash, if Yes, then it crashes. Does this whether a picture box is drawn or not. Please advise. Thanks.

[Hangman]

Hi @cartographer,

Does the same thing happen when the image you're placing is located on your internal hard drive rather than Dropbox?

[cartographer]

I tried Placing a JPG directly from my hard drive, and encountered no dialog or problem. So the problem is securing a link to a file on Dropbox, even though the file is ostensibly stored on my hard drive. It could be that the link is to the cloud version and that's what's getting Pub 2 to lock up. Lesson learned. Can this be fixed Affinity?

[NathanC]

Hi @cartographer,

These issues can be somewhat difficult to replicate as they often are specific to the local user environment, for example there may have been a syncing issue at the time between the app and the specific location you were placing the resource from. Since you're using Dropbox you could try setting it up as a linked service in the App settings -> Linked Services, and also try placing from an alternate location in Dropbox to compare.

[cartographer]

Ahhh, thank you. The Linked Services setting works! Didn't know it was there.