Backup of projects in affinity ipad

[Allan.Lim]

I have like 30Gb of files in the project folders in Affinity Photo for IPad

How can I export the entire folder to iCloud so I could delete all the project folder t9 save space for my new projects?

 

thanks

[JFisher]

Hi Allan.Lim

Welcome to the forum,

You would need to export each open project to iCloud, If you open a project and go to Document > Export you can then select iCloud. 

[Allan.Lim]

Is there any way to export the entire project folder instead one by one file inside the project.

Thanks

[MEB]

Hi Allan.Lim,

No, you can only export files individually but you don't have to open them one by one. Just click on the small menu icon on the bottom right of each thumbnail in the Welcome Screen and select Save A Copy.

[Allan.Lim]

Ooo boy. Would anyone share their workflow using ipad with icloud a affinity? Where would you store the raw files ?

Thanks

[Klumper]

There are two options given here which don’t work for me.

Documents > export doesn’t give me an option to save to cloud.

The menu icon only has an item to save not ‘save to cloud’

How do I move my projects to the cloud so I can edit on the Mac?

 

ive a suspicion that this problem might just be with a beta release. I downloaded the version from the App Store and all it ok

Edited March 29, 2018 by Klumper
More info

[DM1]

3 hours ago, Klumper said:

How do I move my projects to the cloud so I can edit on the Mac?

In General Preferences set Save Location to cloud instead of iPad. When you 'Save' the file will be saved to Cloud instead of local.

[Klumper]

6 hours ago, DM1 said:

In General Preferences set Save Location to cloud instead of iPad. When you 'Save' the file will be saved to Cloud instead of local.

 

Thanks for that. I think the problem was with a beta release. The only way I could find to install the version released via the App Store was by stopping testing using TestFlight so now I’m not sure how to give feedback. Anyway I’ve mamaged to do what I wanted to do and got them all up on the cloud. 

[wgphoto]

8 hours ago, DM1 said:

In General Preferences set Save Location to cloud instead of iPad. When you 'Save' the file will be saved to Cloud instead of local.

 

So there's no way to set this to save to Dropbox, correct?

[Paul Mudditt]

44 minutes ago, wgphoto said:

 

So there's no way to set this to save to Dropbox, correct?

Correct, perhaps in a future version of both apps as both would need changes to make that work reliably I feel. 

 

Edit: After playing with the new pages app that came out yesterday which now works well with Dropbox I’ve changed my mind, it should be possible in AP in a new version as per how the Apple apps work now. 

[David Colman]

But is there still no way to do a batch save (to icloud) and close (to free up app memory)? 

The convoluted interfaces for saving/exporting/closing on the ipad are insane. If you have mutliple projects day in and day out that you need to save, Affinity's lack of a grown-up method for dealing with projects is this app's worst failing, imho. Can't believe they haven't worked out user-friendly workflow solutions for this incredibly basic task.

 

 

[DM1]

2 hours ago, David Colman said:

But is there still no way to do a batch save (to icloud) and close (to free up app memory)?

Files are strictly not 'saved' until you save them using the Save menu option. Once you do this (and I suggest this is the first thing you should do after creating a new file), you can save to Cloud or any location. Then delete the the file from the project screen (it is just a 'sandboxed' version, and use Open from Cloud to reopen the previously 'Saved' new file. Now all edits will be saved back to Cloud/chosen file location. The Project screen file icon will also now be linked to the Cloud/chosen file location. This negates the need to batch save Projects. Just delete from Project screen when finished. The 'saved' file will already be in Cloud/chosen location. It would be nice though to have a batch 'delete' for Project screen. 

[AyoMartins]

 

On 1/5/2020 at 1:21 AM, DM1 said:

Files are strictly not 'saved' until you save them using the Save menu option. Once you do this (and I suggest this is the first thing you should do after creating a new file), you can save to Cloud or any location. Then delete the the file from the project screen (it is just a 'sandboxed' version, and use Open from Cloud to reopen the previously 'Saved' new file. Now all edits will be saved back to Cloud/chosen file location. The Project screen file icon will also now be linked to the Cloud/chosen file location. This negates the need to batch save Projects. Just delete from Project screen when finished. The 'saved' file will already be in Cloud/chosen location. It would be nice though to have a batch 'delete' for Project screen. 

File management is still somewhat  not very helpful and actually  counter-intuitive sometimes (like having ‘close’ instead of ‘delete’) .. it definitely needs work.. 

I have a lot of projects I need to backup right now and I’m here learning all those documents weren’t really saved but just there in the app’s sandbox ? 😨

 

Files App would have been much handy here for some file management batch operations but alas, it can’t access the sandbox .. (was hoping to find the ‘unsaved’ files in there)

Affinity must realize more and more people would use these apps professionally ( they built them to be that capable ) so these half thought-out file management solutions can’t cut it anymore..

 

Imagine the horror of having to manually save all the projects I have , recreating the folder structure inside of Files before finally being able to make my backup, I have quite a lot of projects 😨

 

The current solution is NOT very helpful..

 

This guy describes what it’s like to work with files created by affinity apps right now,

couldn’t have explained it better..

 

though positive-toned , reveals how the current system is just not reasonable..

https://beardyguycreative.com/blog/2018/04/23/using-affinity-photo-on-ipad-file-management/

It really needs work,

Help us 😩

 

[DM1]

9 hours ago, AyoMartins said:

This guy describes what it’s like to work with files created by affinity apps right now,

couldn’t have explained it better..

Just to add, there is also an option to Save a Copy within the Document menu. This option allows you to navigate to ANY location accessible via files (clouds, networked drives, other local folders, USB etc). If you then use Open from Cloud and access this saved 'copy', you can use the Document/Save menu to save edits directly back to the files folder location.  This way, you can safely delete projects in Affinity's Project screen.

[Celia at Grafted Works]

On 5/16/2020 at 6:21 AM, AyoMartins said:

Imagine the horror of having to manually save all the projects I have , recreating the folder structure inside of Files before finally being able to make my backup, I have quite a lot of projects 😨

You have my empathy.

Thankfully I noticed this UX problem fairly early on, but it was still upsetting to have to move around 50 files and restructure their organization. Now I have good habits around saving my files before "closing" them out of the sandbox and just straight up not using the "project" feature which is effectively useless.

Wish we could use AD's file viewer not as a sandbox, but as a true file viewer. After all, AD does use a file viewer of sorts for placing images and exporting...

[DM1]

On 11/20/2017 at 10:11 PM, MEB said:

Just click on the small menu icon on the bottom right of each thumbnail in the Welcome Screen and select Save A Copy.

The hamburger menu is Save. The Save a Copy option only appears in the Workscreen Document menu.

 

4 hours ago, Cealcrest said:

Now I have good habits around saving my files before "closing" them out of the sandbox and just straight up not using the "project" feature which is effectively useless.

It’s ok provided you are happy to use the Default storage location. The Project save creates an .afdesign file and then using save in workscreen document menu or welcome screen hamburger menu will both update the .afdesign file.

 

[MEB]

9 hours ago, DM1 said:

The hamburger menu is Save. The Save a Copy option only appears in the Workscreen Document menu.

Really?! That reply is from 2017 - these changes were not implemented at the time if i remember correctly!

[DM1]

24 minutes ago, MEB said:

Really?! That reply is from 2017 - these changes were not implemented at the time if i remember correctly!

Wow, didn’t realise thread was that old (didn’t look at date), you were certainly correct at time of posting 😊. There still appears to be some confusion among new users regarding work residing in sandbox and getting work out of sandbox using welcome screen project menu. Hence the clarification.