Affinity photo- files all opening together

[avis]

Hi,

When I use Affinity Photo and open a NEW from the FILE option on the top bar it opens a new tab in the current document. When I save it I save each one to the desk top. On my desk top all the documents (files?) are there as a single document. When I select one to work on it opens up the whole set of documents/files/tabs so as I've now got 20 it's looking a little crowded and I have about another 50 to go. 

The only way I can see is to close the Affinity doc I'm working on down completely, then open new from the top File bar. It then gives me a new start point. As I want 12 files, I guess I do this 12 times?

I have now begun to do this and open new files from scratch and need to move my work into these files. There will be 12 files with 6 parts/docs to each. When I move them they are appearing in my new file as an embedded document, so I now can't work on it unless I go back to the mammoth file with each as tabs.

Am I missing something?

Thanks, Avis.

[John Rostron]

It would help if we had some extra information:

• What Operating System are you using?
• What file type are you loading (RAW, jpg, tiff)?
• Are you saving to the same format or as afphoto files?
• Or are you exporting the images?

John

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, avis said:

When I use Affinity Photo and open a NEW from the FILE option on the top bar it opens a new tab in the current document.

When you create a new document using File > New & it opens in a new tab, it is not a part of any other document you have open in another tab. The same is true when you open several documents using File > Open. IOW, each tabbed document is independent of the others. Tabs just allow you to have multiple documents open in the same workspace window so you can work on them one at a time, using the full size of the window.

2 hours ago, avis said:

When I save it I save each one to the desk top. On my desk top all the documents (files?) are there as a single document.

Files are just documents that have been saved. If you do not save a newly created document before closing it, there is no file saved & anything done to that document will be lost. The same is true for any unsaved changes to document files you open & modify. That's why you get a warning about unsaved changes when you try to close a document that has been modified.

Unless you are doing something other than just saving & closing your documents, each one you save to the desktop (or to any other folder) will be saved as an individual document file, independent of all the others.