On a Mac - transferring styles and saved cropping settings

[blackxacto]

Affinity Photo 7 - Upgraded to 7 in Mojave. Now how do I transfer all my styles and cropping setting. It's a shame that this isn't considered when upgrading the Photo software. 

Edited June 29, 2019 by blackxacto
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[Guest]

You can export your styles using the “Hamburger” (three horizontal lines) menu of the Styles Panel. For the cropping ratios and dimensions use the “Cog Wheel” button on the context toolbar of the Crop Tool, then again the “Hamburger” menu to access the Preset Manager. 

[Guest]

Oh, but you will have to do this before updating the software to a new version. I would believe that user settings should survive an update. If they didn’t do so on your system, I would try using Time Machine to get back to the previous version and follow the steps outlined above. Hmm. 

[blackxacto]

Thank you ABC for the information. I appreciate your generosity.

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, A_B_C said:

I would believe that user settings should survive an update.

Yes, they should, and normally do. There seems to have been a problem with the update to 1.7 for some users.

 

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, A_B_C said:

I would believe that user settings should survive an update.

Some users expected the settings in the 1.7 customer beta to automatically be applied to the update of the 1.6.x retail version to 1.7.x, but that apparently was never intended, perhaps because so much of the 'under the hood' stuff was changed for 1.7 that it was considered impractical to do so, impossible for the sandboxed versions (because they are two different apps), would have delayed the launch of the retail update too much, or whatever.

But they definitely should survive an update from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1, & that did not happen for more than a few users.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Some users expected the settings in the 1.7 customer beta to automatically be applied to the update of the 1.6.x retail version to 1.7.x, but that apparently was never intended,

No, the beta settings have never been shared with the retail versions, in either direction, and that is definitely working as intended by Serif.

But yes, retail to retail, the settings should always survive. I had read of issues from 1.6 to 1.7.0, but I hadn't noticed that 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 had also shown problems.