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Photoshop Preferences: General -> Show Messages

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Nov 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016

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What in the world is that supposed to do? I am asking because it is supposed to help with Adobe Spaces crashes.

The help popup reads "determines whether feature messages are shown when triggered by related user actions" which basically tells me nothing.

Can anybody shed some light on this? I could not even find it in the official documentation.

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Community Expert , Nov 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016

You are using the "Magic Wand" and Photoshop decides to help you by showing a tutorial on it.

Unchecking it would stop Photoshop from doing this.

It hasn't happened to me, but if you got that unexpected behavior and it annoys you, you know what box to uncheck.

Gene

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You are using the "Magic Wand" and Photoshop decides to help you by showing a tutorial on it.

Unchecking it would stop Photoshop from doing this.

It hasn't happened to me, but if you got that unexpected behavior and it annoys you, you know what box to uncheck.

Gene

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Nov 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016

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Thank you! I have seen them with some tools. Smart select, I believe it was.

Thanks for clearing that up!

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Nov 30, 2016 Nov 30, 2016

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To be honest, I wasn't sure myself, so I checked Photoshop Family and that answer is from none other than Adobe Product Manager, Jeff Tranberry.

So we both learned.

Gene

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Dec 01, 2016 Dec 01, 2016

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I'll be damned, I cannot find it. Can you link me?

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Dec 01, 2016 Dec 01, 2016

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Much obliged, SIr!

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Dec 01, 2016 Dec 01, 2016

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gener7 wrote:

To be honest, I wasn't sure myself, so I checked Photoshop Family and that answer is from none other than Adobe Product Manager, Jeff Tranberry.

So we both learned.

Gene

Gene I have Show Messages checked, but I can't remember ever seeing one.  Is there a sure fire way of triggering one of them?  Unchecking the Preference setting does not affect the windows at the bottom of the Start Screen.

BTW  I met Jeff Tranberry at MAX while with Chuck TA'ing Bert Munrow's Digital Painting Lab, and he is much younger looking in person, than in his photographs.  Chuck already knew him (Chuck knows everyone!) and it was a minute or two of conversation before I noticed his name tag and the penny dropped.  He was standing in as a third TA for the scheduled TA who had mislaid his passport, and this was on the Friday with most people heading home right after close of play, and in this particular case, home was all the way back to India!

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Dec 02, 2016 Dec 02, 2016

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Trevor.Dennis wrote:

Gene I have Show Messages checked, but I can't remember ever seeing one. Is there a sure fire way of triggering one of them? Unchecking the Preference setting does not affect the windows at the bottom of the Start Screen.

To be honest, Trevor, neither have I.  Jump over to the link I posted and ask in the comments if they can give you some examples to go on.

Maybe Photoshop thinks I'm a know it all, and doesn't bother telling me anything.

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Oct 22, 2017 Oct 22, 2017

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It's back with CC 2018

And I do not have "messages" as an option now????  Am I overlooking something?

It's taking up a lot of of memory for no reason

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Apr 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018

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Same issue. I just starting using CC 2018 and there is no option for "Show Messages". I cannot find out how to turn that off.  I have 3 "Adobe Spaces Helper" processes that seemingly do nothing but waste memory.

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Dec 02, 2021 Dec 02, 2021

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Same issue. Bump. What happened to the Show Messages option? Suspicious that it's gone...

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