Closing Archive should not take any time

When I open an Archive and look at it… Then close it….IT TAKES FOREVER?

WHY? I’m not adding anything to it. It should close instantly.

Am I doing something wrong?

If not LET’S FIX THIS! Add a READ ONLY option when you open an archive or something so it knows you only intend to read it not write to it.

Why is it writing an auxiliary data segment? WHY? WHY? I just want to take a look and get the heck out of it.

If you open an archive with read/write permissions, then change the open or closed state of workspaces, libraries, desktops, folders, reel groups, reels etc then flame will interpret this as a change to the state of the archive and re-write the header.

Thanks…I don’t want it to re-write the header…. Is there an option to not re-write the header? If not there should be.

Because most of the time I’m just looking through an archive for something and I have to open up folders to look at them….but if I don’t find it then I want it to close without re-writing the header.

I noticed you said “with read/write permissions” Is there a way to change it to just read?

I have had that experience on v2025 and earlier. I don’t have the same issue on 2026. It doesn’t seem to matter if it is read only or read/write. v2026.1 on Linux

ytf That’s good to hear! Thanks