thetasig Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 1.7.1 AFPUB, Mac OS X 10.13.6. Long delays in actions/clicks. Activity Monitor also reports "not responding" for long stretches of time (minutes). Was just opening a previously created (large) file with many photos. Waited for file to load (about 2.5 minutes total). I clicked one picture frame with photo on the first page of a spread and waited 2.5 minutes for the frame to actually be selected. Finally got a response - then went to replace photo, and waited over a minute for the response to select the new photo in the Finder. Then photo went into frame enlarged so had to drag the size smaller and fit the frame to the photo. All is good, except slow. Then I clicked the next photo frame on that same page. Waited about 2 minutes for that frame to be selected. Then tried to create a picture frame on the next page of the spread - tried to size it, then a separate blue box was formed over top of the picture frame - somehow - by accident? Could not click that frame and could not click the new blue box. tried to select the created picture frame and could not select it. Could not delete either the picture frame or extra blue box. No photo added at this point. So I checked the Activity Monitor and again, "not responding". Eventually I hit Ctrl-W to close without saving (at least I could try to reload the large file again). Have seen this lag and v-e-r-y slow response also a week earlier after the final release. And - is there another forum for the final release to report more bugs or is the correct place? Thanks for help - not a good situation at present. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 Open it Save as a copy with no saved history and try again. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetasig Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 How do I first delete the saved history - or save the copy with no saved history? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 1 hour ago, thetasig said: How do I first delete the saved history - or save the copy with no saved history? File > Save As... Whatever Copy.afpub Make sure the item File > Save History With Document is not ticked. Close the copy, reopen the copy, Does that make a difference? You say the file is large, how much memory do you have and how much free space do you have on your System Hard Drive? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetasig Posted June 30, 2019 Author Share Posted June 30, 2019 Thanks, Bruce. OK - figured it out. It was not the history that caused the delays (since I have never saved history). However, it is the Resource Manager that goes quietly into action just after the file is fully loaded. Takes another 2 minutes or so and then the Resource Manager pops up with details. It has 746 unique entries (jpg) with some repeated as background/graphics, etc. The document file itself is 3.46GB and the photos are embedded. 235 pages at 2 pages per spread. Activity Monitor shows AFPUB using 25.48GB. Computer memory is 48GB and system SSD is 1TB with 555GB used. I think it is not wise to attempt to "do" anything until the Resource Manager has completed its tasks upon loading. No glitches so far during additional editing. Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 3 hours ago, thetasig said: I think it is not wise to attempt to "do" anything until the Resource Manager has completed its tasks upon loading. I will try to remember this. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetasig Posted July 4, 2019 Author Share Posted July 4, 2019 Opening this topic again since the not responding situation is quite real and repeatable. It is the Resource Manager that silently prevents the user from full access to the document until the Resource Manager has gone through all of the resources. I would suggest, then, that a "loading" window/message be placed up on the screen to inform the user of the delay while Resource Manager is "doing its thing." See screen shots of AFPUB not responding properly during those few minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted August 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 14, 2019 Hi @thetasig, Can you let me know if the behaviour is better in the current beta? A fix went in relating to this a short while ago Thanks Quote Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetasig Posted September 3, 2019 Author Share Posted September 3, 2019 Sorry for the delay. The answer is 'no' - the behaviour is the same in the final version(s) - using 1.7.2 currently. It takes about 8-10 minutes after opening it before I have full (active) use of the document. Example, I can double-click a spread near the end of the page list and it takes about 4 minutes to display that spread; click a picture frame to replace the photo - takes 3 minutes to highlight the frame, then another 2 minutes after clicking 'replace photo' to display the list of photos. Times vary. After the "waiting period" everything works quickly and normally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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