P: Confirmation request after pressing ESC in ACR

Thank you very much. That did it. Greatly appreciated.

I cannot find anywhere in any preferences or settings in Bridge, ACR or Photoshop to switch on that preference! Very strange.

oooops, I meant "I get the same pop up when I press Cancel Escape, so it's just a settings issue"

I am on the latest version but as I said it's not the cancel button I am talking about. It is accidentally hitting the keyboard ESC key that causes instant dismissal of the dialogue with no request for confirmation. I am asking for a confirmation request.

I get the same pop up when I press Cancel, so it's just a settings issue

find this setting or install the latest version and the problem should be gone

Actually I don't even get that if I prss canel in ACR so I am not sure where I would find that to swith even that on although as I said I am not actually talking about the cancel button in the ACR window.

That's cancelling from the ACR window. That's not what I am talking about. I am talking about accidentally hitting the ESC key on the keyboard which instantly dismisses ACR without any secondary dialogue such as the one you screenshotted.

it's there 🙂 probably, you've just turned it off