SilverEfex not saving

[tilltheendofeternity (Stephen - Win 10, Canon R7 & 80D - PL7, FP6, VP3, NIK4 & Affinity 7)]

Keep trying to make use of SilverEfex 3

At the end, each time I try and save it the save progress bar loads, goes up to the end and then nothing. SilverEfex doesn’t save anything, doesn’t close, and while it remains open, Affinity hangs.

If I close it, nothing is saved tho’ Affinity unfreezes

I only really make use of ColourEfex and SilverEfex, so this is a big annoyance.

[Egregius ((Greg) - Windows 11)]

Hi, Stephen. Is this the same problem that you reported here? Silver Effex and Affinity

If so, you could have just bumped the older topic by posting there again. Sorry you’re not getting confirmation of your problem in that topic. But maybe the discussion here will help you:

Issues with Nik4

macOS 11.4: The Nik4 versions of Viveza and Silver Efex Pro will not run correctly as plugins in Affinity Photo nor PhotoLine. When running in either of these hosts, the plugin shows no “OK” button to return results to the host. File->Save produces a “processing” message on the screen that hangs. The other plugins in the suite run correctly as did the Nik3 collection. No problem running as standalones or launching from PhotoLab 4. (I have filed a trouble report with support.)

[tilltheendofeternity (Stephen - Win 10, Canon R7 & 80D - PL7, FP6, VP3, NIK4 & Affinity 7)]

Followed your link and found the solution - at least for my issue.

Remove PL4, leaving just PL5
Remove NIK 4 (leaving custom presets btw)
Re-install NIK 4

Silver Efex is now working perfectly (as is Viveza) as an Affinity Plugin. I rarely use NIK direct from PL, so having them working with Affinity was key for me

Thanks