If Molflow hangs for no apparent reason (especially on exit), see a small hack below:
When Molflow extracts a .ZIP file, it saves the extracted .XML in its "tmp" folder.
There are three scenarios where this might result in a file lock on the temporary file:
- Windows Search Indexer parses the content
- A cloud sync client (Dropbox, etc.) indexes and uploads the content
- Windows File History backs up the file
These are unnecessary, as the XML file is temporary.
There is a way to ask Windows to only index the file properties, not the content:
- Open Indexing options (Windows key + search for "indexing")
- Click advanced:
- Click File Types and scroll to XML, then select "Index Properties Only":
For the other two cases (cloud sync, file history) the good idea is to exclude the Molflow directory from the synced locations.
Meanwhile I explore if Molflow could work without intermediary XML files, directly from the ZIP. This is already implemented when saving the geometry from the GUI.