Quote Originally Posted by covoxer View Post
Mark, does it take as long if you open small files? Or is it that long only with this, or similarly large designs?
Plug-ins initialisation may take a lot of time indeed. But it has to be done.
You may notice this process on opening Photoshop. Takes ages to initialize all of them.
No, you're correct John. It's mainly with larger files i've come to notice now. And yes, it IS an unfortunate necessary evil. I'm OK with it now.

sledger ::
Would you like to attach the file so we can check which/if LE's are being used?
It's not using any. But you're spot on about an 8.5mb Xara file taking a little longer to open... old or NEW. LOL

antimix :: it's nothing to do with the update checker. I can see the app telling me it's trying to find any applicable plug-ins when it loads the file. But thank you for your suggestion just the same.

I appreciate everyone's time in sorting this out for me.

Have a good one peeps.

peace