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benjamin_weiler
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November 30, 2016
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Photoshop Preferences: General -> Show Messages

  • November 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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Correct answer gener7

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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ffnug
Known Participant
December 2, 2021

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

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olive11251
Known Participant
October 22, 2017

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

    KreeDiddy
    KreeDiddy
    Participant
    April 18, 2018

    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.

    gener7
    Community Expert
    gener7Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    November 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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    benjamin_weilerAuthor
    Inspiring
    November 30, 2016

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

    Thanks for clearing that up!

    gener7
    Community Expert
    gener7Community Expert
    Community Expert
    November 30, 2016

    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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