Double click on Designer files in iCloud open Photo app

[Kobold]

When double clicking on desiger files in iCloud folder on mac, Affinity Photo will open. When trying to assign these documents to open with designer (by doing so in the information window for that file) I can not set designer to be the app, to be used when clicking. Please fix that, or tell me a solution for that, thanks.

[Gabe]

Hi @Kobold

When you "Get info", go to Open With > Other > Options and make sure you change the "Enable" to "All applications". If you have Designer installed, you would find it in the list. Choose Designer > Add , and then choose "Change All..."

Thanks,

Gabe. 

moved from bugs

[Kobold]

This is exactly what I been trying, but no success. See video, always juming back to photo:

 

 

[R C-R]

By "iCloud folder" do you mean the 'badged' iCloud Drive folder that looks like this in the Mac Finder?

If so, I think that is a consequence of how Apple implements sandboxing for these special application-specific 'badged' folders. They can only be created on an iOS device running that specific iOS app, so for example for Photos or Designer, only supported iPad models running the iOS version of the Affinity app can create the badged folder.

Because sandboxing in iOS limits direct access to the contents of those folders to the app that created them (I suppose for security reasons), on a Mac, you can't circumvent that limitation by changing the default app that opens them to anything else -- that is 'baked into' every item in those folders, so to speak.

To workaround this Apple-imposed limitation, you can create one or more regular (unbadged) folders on your iCloud Drive, either on the Mac or in the iOS Files app, & move or copy files from the badged folder to one of those folders. I created several of these folders, with names like "Affinity Native files" (for afdesign & afphoto files) & "Affinity imports" (for afbrushes, afmacros, afstyles, & such), but you can use whatever scheme works best for you.

[Kobold]

ah, that sounds like an understandable reason for that. Thanks, good to know, so I´ll  find a workaround for that for sure!  :-)