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EVERYBODY: You can fix the Affinity slow start-up problem on MacOS in a simple step: Go to your App folder and duplicate the "Affinity Photo 2" app. Then remov
by carlosjobim 2y ago
EVERYBODY: You can fix the Affinity slow start-up problem on MacOS in a simple step:
Go to your App folder and duplicate the "Affinity Photo 2" app. Then remove the original and use the duplicate.
Now Affinity starts in 2 seconds instead of in 30 seconds on my M3 machine.
- dijit 2y agoWhy does this work?
- carlosjobim 2y agoI have no idea. I found it deeply buried in a support forum the other day.
- saagarjha 2y agoI think I checked this once and it was doing Rosetta translation
- pier25 2y agoI just updated to the latest version and Affinity Photo 2 opens in seconds now.
- spiffotron 2y agoI'd legitimately love to know why this has worked wtf
- mmastrac 2y agoI bet you could get the same results by duplicating the inner binary only rather than the whole folder. I saw something very similar with terminal apps. The blog post doesn't mention this app - am I missing something?
- carlosjobim 2y agoThe follow up blog post published today mentions Affinity. It's also one of the worst apps to start slowly on macos.
- keyle 2y agoThat's mind boggling. I always wondered why it takes so long to open. Is it a shady deal with Adobe and Apple?
- jdiff 2y agoThere is absolutely no reason to jump immediately to conspiracy here.
- Tagbert 2y agoDoes this still load as fast. I have found that, after you have run the app once, it will load very quickly for a day or so and then load more slowly again. I believe that there is a cached state which does not run the slow check and which expires after a while and a new check must be run. It has been two days since I ran Affinity Photo, latest version, and it took about 30 sec to load.
- carlosjobim 2y agoThis fixes the problem permanently.
- ksec 2y agoI think this needs blog post and a much deeper explanation.