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choreo

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Jan 10, 2008
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I have tried getting an answer to this on both Apple and Adobe Forums and it is the usually finger-pointing contest - hoped maybe someone here had an answer.

I have a 2012 MacPro Desktop running El Capitan 10.11.3. I am running (3) NEC Multisync Monitors (LCDs). From left to right a 24", a 27" in the center and a 26" on the right. I have been running 3 monitors on my Macs going back at least 20 years. What I am about to describe is not a "new" problem, but one I have experienced off and on for years. The reason I only notice it with the Adobe CC apps is because those are the only ones that I use all day every day and they are the only apps where I open and arrange LOTs of palettes on both the right and left monitors. I really think that the problem I am experiencing is a Mac problem rather than an Adobe problem.

What happens, is that when the Displays go to sleep (usually after 15 minutes of inactivity) any Adobe palettes I have open on my right monitor either completely jump to the center monitor when I wake up the displays or they sometimes shift to partially cover the center monitor. This get REALLY OLD since I have to go to the various Adobe apps and choose RESET (Saved Workspace) to get all the palettes to reposition themselves on the right screen where they belong.

The left screen is never a problem for some reason - saved palette locations stay where they should on all apps following a Display sleep session. The right screen palettes move in EVERY Adobe App I have on wake up. Obviously this is a hardware or OS problem since ALL my Adobe Apps exhibit the same behavior.

Does anyone have any solutions for this? I am not the only one that has problems with this - I see similar questions all over the Internet for years (mostly people just running a secondary monitor).

I should mention that starting the Screen Saver DOES NOT trigger the problem. It only happens when the displays "sleep", but I don't want to wear them out prematurely by powering them 100% of the time.
 
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