Photoshop 19.1.2: Opened document(s) is/are invisible coming back Photoshop after using 'win d' or 'alt tab' in Windows

Finally I got answer from Official Rep - now I can rest easy :D

From 1,5 month I'm ACP on Photoshop & Bridge Scripting (both) forums. Then 3 weeks ago some other ACP asked me to join prerelease program. I agreed as still I'm finding some bugs they should be fixed, but already in alpa release, so after a fact. My candidature was sent to 2 prominent folks from Adobe. Well I have no idea what's the progress of this, as I didn't recieve any invitation yet. Just week ago I also got offer to be Adobe forums moderator, what I'm making myself ready for.

But yeah I would like to join this program. Possibly I may help to prevent a little more in releasing next Photoshop with plenty of bugs (what unfortunatelly from many comments I see it happened to CC2018). What's good many of them are fixed already, so that's good motivation for me to search for them before next release deadline.

I just spoke with the guy managing our prerelease program.  Expect an invite soon, Kukuryus.

And, just so you know, I try to deal with a half dozen or more user reported bugs everyday that I'm in the office.  But sometimes I get pulled onto critical projects or simply take a vacation, during which time I'll go "dark."  If there's a topic which isn't getting attention, you can ping me, but keep in mind, I generally address only those issues in my areas of expertise -- I'm an employee, but also a volunteer here as I'm on the development team, not tech support.  I believe many of the Adobe reps are in the same category as I am.  Officially, this is a user-to-user forum -- we just see ourselves as users too and want to make the app better for everyone.

I hope that clarifies things a little.

Thanks,
David

So I'm in program ;) Thx for putting me there as last 2 attempts of someone else failed for some reason. Well I browsed all logged bugs and can't find those 3 I reported during last 1,5 month. I don't know how's about one from this topic but last two were logged, at least that was said so. Anyway if current one was logged too can you give me its ID so i'll try to find it once again, if not then I'll log it myself...

Howdy,

I can't speak for your other bugs, but this one I logged.  The bug ID is PS-15009.  If you're curious about other bugs, just email the topic link from GetSat to me and I'll email you back the bug number.

Thanks,
David

Okey, I'll contact you other way. That's not a place to talk about ;) I just add I think I know why I couldn't find your log by search blank. It's not posted, but probably logged some other way you can't find it even by ID you just told me. It's posible only with posted ones.

And yes you can tell me ID of other bug I found and you logged:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/pressing-windows-10-win-key-right-after-openi...

Thank you for confirming this behaviour. It is imposible to work  when you have few documents opened and you have meantime very often to leave to Desktop or switch application/screen. All because when you are back then you have to choose from 'Windows Down Bar' every document separately to make them all visible, or like you said from 'File / Recent Files', but still one by one!

I don't understand what you mean about scalling to 125%. I now did the same, from 100% I had it set. Then I selected 'Windows / Arrange / Tile', and then used 'win d' to use it back. They were not there. Perhpas you meant something else, could you be more precise? THX!

Good catch. I remember I clicked everything in that 'Window / Arrange' menu to find some workaround but had to miss that one item (Consolidate All to Tabs) or simply if most of them didn't work I assumed nothing does.

Still this method is not solution for some cases. Firstly, we had to set some shortcut to press each time we are back to Photoshop, even two or record some action (not talking of users who can't script). Secondly if we had arranged opened documents some way then with this method after being back to Photoshop they all would be rearanged to cascade.

...and of course there is problem for multi monitor users you noticed - all their images are going to be collected into one screen.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4dv3tiilnalwpe/ToolBar.jpg?dl=0

As you see I also (over)use that you suggest. I have easy access to most important folders on computer when I work in Photoshop. The only special space I don't have there is Desktop. it's very convinient to me when I can see that area the way it's designed. Thx for tips though, that might help someone for sure. For me it's unfortunately not a solution, and to be honest it's a bug not functionallity of Photoshop, so I can't understand why for so long time they didn't fix it yet. Changing opened documents from one to other is eternal part of Photoshop; if not that then we shouldn't be allowed to do it even when documents were not minimised.

That could be solution, but:

1) win & d
2) some stuff
3) win & d

would be:

1) win & ctrl & d
2) some stuff
3) win & ctrl & F4

or:

1) win & ctrl & right
2) some stuff
3) win & ctrl & left


That last solution is totally unconviniet taking in consideration I don't move my right hand from mouse (beside sometimes using thumb to press second enter - that in right bottom corner of keyboard - until I have enter some numbers on numeric part of keyboard or sometimes write some text). Left hand I don't move as well. I don't use nothing beyond very left part of keyboard. Usually only 'ctrl (shift) tab', 'win d', 'tab', 'a', combinations of 'shift' and 'alt'. Most things I have in my mouse. About hundredt single or multi operations (by just left, right, middle, 4th, 5th, roll and tilt that I combine by chording, delaying and few methods of sending signals with using of macros) I remember all, as I use them every day.

Middle solution ie. 'win & ctrl & right' could be after all accepted, but win & ctrl & F4 is too uncomfortable. For years I worked out method where my hands almost don't move, and now all of sudden I had to do such gimnastics. Now I have only two keys to press without bending hand however I leave / come back Photoshop.

As to only me I can write script that will activate next / previous document by pressing apropriate keys. So that's really nothing hard to fix for engineers who must programming way better than me. Either they sort out a fail with 'win d' or they enforce activating chosen document by 'ctrl (shift) tab'. If you check Action Manager code produced by Photoshop during your time with Ps you will see that when you choose from 'File / Open Recent', or from 'Window' or else Ps icon on ToolBar, some opened but minimised image then it will be recorded to ScriptListenerJS.log as the same operation we do by keyboard. So my conclusion is simple, when they changed some functionallities without checking fully how that affect other things we finished up with no signal sent by those keys that normally worked, or beeing blocked by something else.

I saw many things they finally fixed they didn't work that Adobe didn't made intentionally, but by accident. I assume it's one of them, but because I see not many people care of, their management don't consider to fix it even when that seems is easy bug to handle. Since customers deal with or don't see difference in their workflow this difficulty is at far under bottom of priority's list. This topic is mostly not to find workaround, however there nothing leaves so every advice like yours will be worth of trying, but to help them to notice there's another problem that should be disposed; not delayed to next release :(