For everyone who has searched this annually since early 2000s, I have chased this for over a decade since Adobe introduced this in some CS4 or CS5 Illustrator version. I have spent many go arounds with Adobe over the years on support getting no resolution until March 2017. After spending two nights debating with tech support while they remotely tested my MacBook Pro they found a resolution that has evaded everyone for many years.
In Adobe Illustrator CC2017 under Edit > Color Settings > Color Management Policies set RGB to Preserve Embedded Profiles and CMYK to Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles). Then after experiencing the annoying window once Save As your file to replace the older file and the window will no longer warn you.
So here is the logic according to Adobe Support after I debated them for two nights. We run a high end RIP and color manage everything for proofing for an ad agency and photography studio and have done so since around 2004. We were told how critical color management was then and so therefore Converted and Saved ALL profiles to our Working Profiles of Adobe RGB 1998 and US Sheetfed Coated v2 since they first became an option in software. All other software worked fine and proofs have been precise for years but the "Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be honored when this document was created," warning windows have plagued us for every file opened since these early days of CS Illustrator versions.
When Adobe Support worked on case 0188718247 he saw what was happening and gave several other attempts at solutions only for me top prove it did not work and he saw the Warning Window eventually. On the second night he came back from a long hold and said he thought he found the answer. Contrary to the logic of the English words in what the Warning Window states, "Your current color settings discard CMYK profiles in linked content but profiles were set to be honored when this document was created," Adobe refers to anything that may have changed from the first time the file is saved. Readers assume it was something the reader did that made it say this. It is actually the engineering process Adobe used that when saved creates it.
This is complicated so follow me as best that I understood it. Adobe created Color Profiles as they are engineered for Pantone Colors for Photoshop and Illustrator in differing ways because of transparency with vector differing from the same ways in which bitmaps work in Photoshop. Even if one saves a new file today with new working profiles then the warning will appear since this hidden "Pantone Engineered process" creates a trigger for this endless warning. Although Adobe created this trigger and users/readers of the Warning feel like they created the disruption, it is actually referring to the "HIDDEN" Adobe Pantone Engineering process that makes the warning pop up. Support reset my Color Management Policies for RGB to Preserve Embedded Profiles and CMYK to Preserve Numbers (Ignore Linked Profiles) and then tested. At first the Warning appeared until the files were resaved to overwrite previous files and then the window no longer activates. Does all this make total sense? Not really as I questioned why Adobe keeps allowing a warning window to be triggered by Adobe's own engineering process? This sounds more like a stubborn logistics issue than a software glitch. It makes Users think they messed something up and Adobe seems clueless that this warning existed for many years.
Hopefully this will end the windows. Does it mess with colors? Nope. We still run the same colors as before off every file to our RIP proofing. It's only a word game being played onscreen so if you prefer to end it, these settings so far have appeared to resolve the warning popups.
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