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Revolt Puppy
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March 22, 2012

P: CS6 - Tearing a tab into its own window makes it impossible to move. (Win, Task Bar)

  • March 22, 2012
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Tearing a tab into its own window makes it impossible to move. (I don't use tabs because they're too inflexible.) If I try to move a document, it snaps to a totally different spot. If I move it multiple times, it slowly migrates across the screen until it is impossible to work on at all. Turning off the tab setting altogether does not help this problem. In fact, at this rate, doing so would make getting anything done impossible.

Secondarily, it would also be nice if every new document window did not appear in my toolbar, because then I have to alt+tab through potentially 10 open documents each time I switch to Photoshop. Plus, it's really cluttered.

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    Berend Engelbrecht
    Participant
    September 18, 2012
    To have a task bar button for each document is standard behavior for many applications (e.g., Microsoft Word and Excel do the same). In Windows 7 the buttons are always grouped. I can imagine that it could be inconvenient if you are using Windows XP, but the behavior is not specific to Photoshop 6.

    The issue of this thread was that it was impossible to move the documents correctly unless the taskbar was docked to the bottom of the screen or auto-hidden. That issue indeed appears to be fixed in the 13.0.1 update.
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    Berend Engelbrecht
    Participant
    September 18, 2012
    Yes, the problem is fixed in 13.0.1. Thank you!
    Pete.Green
    Community Manager
    Pete.GreenCommunity Manager
    September 18, 2012
    This comment was posted 3 months ago and is still a valid workaround if you have not installed the 13.0.1 update, but is unnecessary now.
    Pete.Green
    Community Manager
    Pete.GreenCommunity Manager
    September 18, 2012
    No, the auto-hide was the previous workaround as noted by the comment date -- The fix is in the 13.0.1 update.
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    scr
    Participant
    September 17, 2012
    Would you please stop saying this and actually listen to the problem? Apparently not.
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    scr
    Participant
    September 17, 2012
    Typical official response -- auto hide the task bar. Hmmm. Maybe I want to see the task bar, and instead, I want you to fix it so Photoshop doesn't clutter up my task bar with unnecessary duplicate representations of itself.
    Pete.Green
    Community Manager
    Pete.GreenCommunity Manager
    September 17, 2012
    The update to 13.0.1 contains a fix for this issue:
    http://www.adobe.com/support/download...

    Go grab it, install it, and try it out. Let us know how it goes!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 22, 2012
    I'm using windows 7 (64bit) with taskbar horisontal, but on top.
    I'm using mac-like bar in bottom and am not intended to move windows taskbar to the bottom. CS5 was absolutely ok.

    can't work now, moving back to CS5 until this bug will be fixed.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2012
    I am using Windows 8 and have the similar problem but many other problems with it.
    19KStudio
    19KStudio
    Participating Frequently
    August 14, 2012
    With the task bar located vertically on the left side of the screen and only on the left side of the screen does this bug occur.

    Bring a new image into PS and it attaches itself to the top bar as it should. If you pull that image off the top bar and move it to another part of the screen it will stick as it should, but any subsequent attempts to move it are greeted with the window snapping back to the position it was in. Repeated tries push the image window further off the screen.

    Again this happens only with the task bar located vertically on the left side of the screen. The fix at this point is of course to relocate the Taskbar.

    good luck
    Steve

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