Grzeniu Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Hello! I am using assets quite extensively across both Designer and Publisher. Is there a way to use one set of Assets that would be updated in any of the applications with as little actions as possible? Ideally like fonts are, i.e without any intervention - when I add anbject to assets in Publisher, it shows up in Designer as well. That sounds too perfect for me and most probably has it's serious disadvantages, but I wondered if there's some workaround. Maybe, as mentioned in this thread, I should use the Windows junctions functionality and have the assets updated after application is restarted? Regards, Grzegorz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 15 minutes ago, Grzeniu said: Maybe, as mentioned in this thread, I should use the Windows junctions functionality and have the assets updated after application is restarted? While that might work for sharing between two copies of Designer, running one at a time on two separate computers, I predict there might be problems if you tried to use that approach to share the data between two different programs (Designer and Publisher) that might be running at the same time on the same computer. Each program probably believes it is in control of its files, and you would likely have problems if both were running at the same time, and trying to update the files at the same time. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 5 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Each program probably believes it is in control of its files, and you would likely have problems if both were running at the same time, and trying to update the files at the same time. Concurency access to one file is a fairly standard technique. Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Pšenda said: Concurency access to one file is a fairly standard technique. I'm not sure if you mean that multiple processes can concurrently access a file, or some thing else. If that's what you meant, then yes, it's fairly standard but the programs still have to be designed to allow it, and not to make assumptions that no one else has changed the file contents. Given that (as far as I know) only one copy of each Affinity application can run at a time, and given that they use separate directories for storing all their propcol files, the designers might have assumed that allowing for concurrent access wasn't needed. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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