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I saved some photos in the Affinity Photo native format.  Today I am being denied access to the same photos.  I get the message that I need administrative permission.  I am the administrator and it is a stand alone desktop win 10. All other files can be edited or deleted only the Affinity format is denying me access. I tried rebooting and change names but nothing has worked so far.  Does anyone have any ideas? Thank you, Bob

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As an immediate workaround, try running the Affinity app with administrator privileges. Click on the Start icon, locate the entry for the program, right-click on it, and navigate to the option to run with admin privileges. (Sorry, I'm not at my PC right now to give more detail.)

 

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

As an immediate workaround, try running the Affinity app with administrator privileges. Click on the Start icon, locate the entry for the program, right-click on it, and navigate to the option to run with admin privileges. (Sorry, I'm not at my PC right now to give more detail.)

Thank you for your response. The two files are in my download folder and I cannot access them even through Affinity Photo.  " Denied permissions".  When I run Affinity Photo as an administrator, I am still denied permissions to open those two files.  I can open other AP files.   My guess is that they are corrupted but how to get rid of them?  Thanks, again

 

 

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Interesting. If they were corrupted I would expect an error message from Affinity Photo, not a permissions error from Windows.

I'm out of ideas; sorry.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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Hi,

Did you try creating other Affinity files in "My Documents" or some other folder  and opening them? 

The "Download" folder can have some permissions restrictions (files' names appearing green, opening files needing confirmation with a warning, etc.).

 

 

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Ok this is weird!  Last night I received a Win 10 update.  I updated and shut down.  This morning I checked my download folder and the affinity files were nowhere to be seen?  I think from now on I will save the files in the original folder not downloads.

Thanks all for your help

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