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October 23, 2018
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Photoshop CC 2019 - I NEED to disable the start page!

  • October 23, 2018
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So the all-new 'nifty' start page in PS 2019 lists all of the recent files, and it seems it's not possible to disable it. This is REALLY a problem, and I wonder how nobody at Adobe thought about the consequences in a professional environment.

Why is this a problem? A few thoughts:

- When having a client looking over my shoulder, I don't want him to see any of the files I've been working on recently. For example, what if I'm working for a competitor, too? I certainly don't want to let client A know what client B does. I could be easily sued for that by client A, thanks to Adobe.

- NDAs. I regularly work on images that fall under a NDA. By listing the files as thumbnails or even as files names, I may be violating a NDA if someone who's not supposed to know about a project happens to see a file name or image thumbnail.

- In a professional environment, I may have worked on my private images recently. Thanks to Adobe, my boss can easily look at the stuff I've been working on. Yes, he probably can find out by tracking my activities with the help of IT, but still, I need to be able to disable the start page.

I hope Adobe delivers a quick fix for this. It's unbelievable their UX designers don't think about the implications of a feature like the start page. Adobe, if you really respect your users' privacy and security, you really couldn't have failed more.

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    Participating Frequently
    December 3, 2018

    Go to: Photoshop > Preferences > General > Disable the Home Screen – then Quit and restart Photoshop.

    No idea why Adobe keeps pushing these infuriating 'start screens' upon us :-/

    patrikl
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2018

    I have this problem too, very annoying. To prevent others to see your recent files you can go to Preferences -> File Handling, and set "Recent File List Contains" to 0.

    cgpokoyAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2018

    Ah, missed that one - many thanks, that'll do for now!

    Known Participant
    October 23, 2018

    YES YES YES!  Disable this immediately!  On the verge of reinstalling the previous version!

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 23, 2018
    So the all-new 'nifty' start page in PS 2019 lists all of the recent files, and it seems it's not possible to disable it.

    Does Photoshop > Preferences > General > Disable the Home Screen not work for you?

    cgpokoyAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    October 23, 2018

    It IS disabled (in that the option is enabled in the general preferences). It seems that the switch works when I open a fresh instance of PS, but as soon as I close a file the start page comes up again. The checkbox has no effect anymore, even if set. Looks like a bug.