Studio Link in .422 fails on Designer Beta .434

[willernest]

Publisher at .422.  Downloaded Photo at .434 and StudioLink successfully linked.  Downloaded Designer at .434 and StudioLink failed (says get beta).

Uninstalled Designer beta and reinstalled. Same situation. Looked for earlier approaches - go to …\appinfo\Beta and delete Designer Release.appinfo. After most recent installed of Designer beta there is nothing under that directory.

For non-beta (Release directory) there is both Designer Release.appinfo and Photo Release.appinfo and of course for the Release version StudioLink worked out of the box (realizing that it didn't for many).

Windows 10 version 1903.

What next?

 

 

[walt.farrell]

Just for another data point: I've installed Photo and Designer beta .434 and both Personas work fine in Publisher beta .422.

The complete directory path you're looking for is %programdata%\Affinity\Common\1.0\appinfo\Beta and you can type that into the location bar of a File Explorer window or you can type it into the box you get when you press the Windows key and R together. I do have .appinfo files in there for Designer, Photo, and Publisher. You might confirm that that's the directory you checked.

Beyond that, sorry, I have no suggestions.

But in case it matters, the Photo and Designer .appinfo files I have are dated 2 weeks ago, though I just installed the latest beta versions this morning. That seems odd.

 

[Patrick Connor]

Believe it or not this is by design as we are changing the detection and you will need a new Publisher build for them all to use the same mechanism, sorry for the confusion this causes.

A new Publisher beta is imminent

[willernest]

This looks to be resolved with the new release .442 and the .434 versions of Photo & Design. Very nice.

[walt.farrell]

42 minutes ago, ErrkaPetti said:

Suggestions on that?

Not sure what to suggest. It worked on my Win 10 system.

Maybe try the new Photo and Designer betas when they become available again after Mark figures out what went wrong that makes them crash instantly.

[Patrick Connor]

@Jon P, please investigate the StudioLink problem demonstrated here 

@ErrkaPetti what folders are the programs installed to (please paste the full path into a reply)

 

[Sean P]

Hi Errka,

MS Store installs are quite hidden so they won't appear with everything else. I presume you've run both Photo and Designer Betas up without any issues? Also I presume your Windows is setup using a Swedish locale?

Would you be able to load up Publisher and then attempt to access both apps via StudioLink. Once that is done could you attach the Log.txt found inside %appdata%\Affinity\Publisher\1.0 (Beta)\

As well as that can you export the following key from the Windows registry and attach that please? 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Serif\

Thanks!

[Patrick Connor]

@ErrkaPetti

Those files were really helpful.

In rewriting the logic we had forgotten the test case when the Publisher beta should have checked for Microsoft store purchases of Designer and Photo as validation of the ADe and APh betas, sorry and thank you for your patience helping us find this problem. Currently Publisher Windows Beta will only enable the studiolink if a the ADe or APh Beta is found and that beta has a valid licensed Affinity Store version installed.

In future Publisher Windows Beta builds will still require ADe and APh beta builds, but will accept the Affinity Store license OR the Windows Store receipts as validation being a Designer and/or Photo "customer".

[Patrick Connor]

@ErrkaPetti

Please can you try the latest Affinity Publisher beta for us and report back. Hopefully this has been resolved with no knock on consequences.