Macros, shortcuts, palettes, etc wiped out by update to 1.7.0

[ivanweiss.london]

Is there a way to recover these? I've tried going back to 1.6.7 via Time Machine but that does not reinstate them. Are they lost forever?

[Andrew Future]

Hi Ivan - I don't know how, but I stumbled across a solution to get the macros back.

1. I remade a small macro: flatten + duplicate layer

2. When I clicked the little icon to save it, all of my previous macro library reappeared - including the newly remade one.

When I closed and relaunched Affinity, my macro library was back to normal - i.e. as it was prior to the V1.7 update.

Andrew

 

 

[ivanweiss.london]

Thanks, Andrew. I just tried it but had no luck.

[DavieC]

View > Studio > Library

Sorry, that was when updating to 1.7.

Worked for me. But not Nik..... 

[ivanweiss.london]

Thanks to @paschulke2 for this. If you roll back to 1.6 from a Time Machine backup, you can recover your preferences, macros, etc by restoring these files and folders:

~/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto.plist

~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/

~/Library/Application Scripts/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto

and all "xxx.com.seriflabs …" folders in ~/Library/Group Containers/

"~" is the placeholder for your home folder.

[BrianM257]

well surprise suprise surprise, not noted anywhere with the update to 1.7

that all the MACROS set up in 1.6

would not be carried over with  the update.

 

I'm rolling back to 1.6 so I can get some work done.

 

sorry bye.

Moderator: I'll want a refund.

yes? no?

No? yes?

 

[dotlyc]

I found an easy workaround. I found the macro file (My Macros.afmacros) that I saved in the finder and double clicked it. It opened in Affinity 1.7 and the macro library was reinstated. The same works for my custom brushes.

However, I'm reverting to 1.6.7 because of the problem with Nik plugins. The above technique also worked to reinstate the brushes and macros in 1.6.7.

[jmwellborn]

11 hours ago, BrianM257 said:

well surprise suprise surprise, not noted anywhere with the update to 1.7

that all the MACROS set up in 1.6

 

Moderator: I'll want a refund.

yes? no?

No? yes?

 

The upgrade to 1.7 was free.   What refund would you be expecting?