I think they should just add a collapsable panel as a place to access those if you want, just like swatches, layers or anything else. Then you can just detick it under window if you don't want it there. Turning it completely off in preferences is good of course, just get it off the workspace Adobe!!! The AI toolbar too, let me collapse it to the side where I can find it if I want without having to figure it out and turn it back on ... View more

Thanks for your reply. I've been doing it that way for years. No different than power randomly shutting off, which happens often enough in the rural area in which I live. It does force the program to load recovered files (which are essentially different files than what I saved, so I can just close them after review) but that is my whole reason for doing so...to see where I was and what all I was working on the day before. I have never had an issue until today, when many others are experiencing same issue. I just updated yesterday for first time in a few months also. I rolled back a version and things are working as intended now 🙂 ... View more

It's happening to me it seems because of recovery files. If I had a file open and force quit the program with task manager, (which is generally my way of closing the program at the end of the day) upon re-opening if I don't hit the cancel recovery button pretty quick, I get the processing status bar that goes nowhere. I have uninstalled/reinstalled with no luck. Did not clear preferences yet...but my illustrtaor has crashed twice today just randomly ... View more