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Jul 24, 2024 10:06 PM UTC
Question

Help - Acrobat Pro constantly closing two tabs when I close only one

This is very frustrating. I use Adobe Acrobat Pro at work and it recently started an annoying issue: when I have multiple pdfs open in tabs and I close one tab, it will very often also close the next tab to the right without me clicking on anything else or pushing any keyboard keys. It is happening with increased frequency. Workaround is obvious (always keep the tab to the left of those I need open until I'm done with the one on the right), but takes up real estate and interrupts workflow. This has got to be a bug - where is the update and fix?

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Participant
Mar 7, 2025 2:05 PM UTC

I have the same problem and I'm not in a browser. I'm using Adobe on my desktop. Just lost a lot of work becasuse of it

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Participant
Mar 24, 2025 9:05 PM UTC

I am also having this issue in desktop!!!!! I close one PDF and it closes a PDF that is opened in a seperate window, not even tabbed together! I'm working on huge case filings and losing them by closing a totally seperate PDF!

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Souvik Sadhu
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May 29, 2025 11:46 AM UTC

Hi @kelly_7537,

 

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for your experience with Acrobat.

 

We made significant stability and performance enhancements in the upcoming updates.

Could you update the app to the latest version (2025.001.2047x) and let us know if it helps?

 

To do so, go to Menu > Help > Check for Updates.

Look forward to your findings.


Regards,
Souvik.

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Souvik Sadhu
Legend
Jul 25, 2024 1:33 AM UTC

Hi @Sarah38797512jb3x,

 

Hope you are doing well. Thanks for writing in!

 

I tried to reproduce the issue at my end but couldn't. This seems to me like an issue with the preferences. 

Would you mind resetting them to default and trying again? Steps can be found here: How to reset Acrobat Preference settings to defaul

 

If this doesn't work, please share a few pieces of information for further investigation:

1. The app version number of Acrobat you use (go to Help-> About Acrobat Pro DC);

2. The Windows version you are on;

3. A video recording of the entire event.

 

Look forward to hearing from you.

 

-Souvik

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Participant
Jul 25, 2024 6:19 PM UTC

The glitch was pretty random anyway, so difficult to replicate. I tired resetting the preferences and that did not fix it. Next I uninstalled Acrobat Pro and reinstalled it and that seems to have resolved it. 

Thank you. 

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Souvik Sadhu
Legend
Jul 26, 2024 5:02 PM UTC

@Sarah38797512jb3x Thanks for the response.

 

Just a heads-up. The team is also able to reproduce this in-house. Even though this is an edge case scenario, we will be working to get this fixed.

 

Thanks for reporting the issue.

 

-Souvik

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