Odd Affinity file icons in File > Open dialog in Designer

[walt.farrell]

Here are two screenshots, from File > Open.

This one from Designer 1.6.5.123:

Note that it shows the .afphoto file with the Affinity Photo icon. (By the way, the .afphoto file was created with Photo beta.)

Here's that same File > Open dialog from Designer 1.7.0.258:

In this one, for some reason, the file icon for Designer 1.6.5 is shown, rather than the proper Photo icon.

 

 

[Sean P]

Hi Walt,

I've just tried this myself and afphoto files are showing up with the Photo icon correctly in 1.7.0.258 for me. Does right clicking both formats and selecting Open With > Choose Default Program and setting the applications in there solve the issue?

[walt.farrell]

47 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Hi Walt,

I've just tried this myself and afphoto files are showing up with the Photo icon correctly in 1.7.0.258 for me. Does right clicking both formats and selecting Open With > Choose Default Program and setting the applications in there solve the issue?

I can try that. The odd thing is that it's the same file being shown with two different icons depending on which version of Designer I'm trying to open it with. I've never seen one file display with two different icons before.

(For what it's worth, File > Open in both Photo and Photo beta show the Designer 1.6 icon for that .afphoto file.)

(Edit: And a standard Windows File Explorer window also shows the Designer 1.6 icon for that .afphoto file.)

[walt.farrell]

50 minutes ago, Sean P said:

Does right clicking both formats and selecting Open With > Choose Default Program and setting the applications in there solve the issue?

Yes, right-clicking on the file, picking Open with, then Choose another application, then choosing Photo beta and ticking "always use this application" resolved it.