Linked images not updating in Affinity Designer

[Minue]

Hello there,

I am working with a design in Affinity Designer 1.7.2 for Mac, and the following happens. 

I have a linked resource (an image) as background that I want to edit slightly. So I select it, click "edit image" (which opens it in a new tab of Designer), make my minor changes on the image (with Pixel Persona) and then save it. Everything ok to that point. 

The problem is that when I go back to my original design, a pop up shows on the top left corner saying "Linked resource changed" (see screenshot), and the images shows pixelated and doesn't update with the changes. Even if I close it and open it again, it keeps showing that pop on open. I have to replace the image with the same one in order to work, which is tiresome. 

The same happens if I edit the image with affinity photo or any other photo editing app. 

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of linked images? It should just update the linked file right? Is it bug? Is it weirdly implemented feature?  

Thanks

[R C-R]

As I understand it, Affinity Designer & Affinity Photo are not (yet) supposed to support linked resources, unless the file is an Affinity Publisher document (the file extension is ".afpub") opened in Designer or Photo.

The bug is that Designer allows users to replace embedded documents with linked ones, even if the file is not a Publisher file.

[Minue]

Thanks. The thing is that if I drag an image to a design, it places it as linked by default, and there's no easy way to change it to embedded, which is quite weird... 

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Minue said:

The thing is that if I drag an image to a design, it places it as linked by default,

That sounds like a bug, assuming that you've never opened that project in Publisher and changed the default behavior.