Quote Originally Posted by Michael View Post
I elliminated this behaviour by going in to the folder where the file resides. ( %appdata%\\Local\Xara\XtremePro\17\Cache\designs\e ng\firstlook\intro_17_0) Change the permissions for that folder to only read. So, no write rights on files in that folder and exclude every other users (system, administrators). But, before you do that; delete the xar-files but not the catindex files. (you won't be able to delete them once you change the rights)

Be aware, this is not for the faint-hearted and you do have to know what you're meddling with...
Michael:

Your suggestion did the trick....the file no longer opens and the last file I used opens the next time I open the software....thanks.