This issue has only arisen in the last few weeks. I am running up-to-date Win 11 with up-to-date Nvidia RTX 3070 display driver on NEC 30” monitor (LCD3090WQXi), up-to-date Photoshop (25.9.0) and up-to-date Lightroom Classic (13.3.1) from the Adobe Photography Plan.
My workflow had been to start editing in Lightroom Classic and then finish in Photoshop via the LR command “Edit in Photoshop 2024”. In Photoshop Preferences > Workspace and under Options, Open Documents as Tabs was checked. In the last few weeks, I started getting the following message upon trying to open the document in Photoshop:
Could not open “image_name.xxx” because there isn't enough room to dock it on this monitor. Try turning off Open Documents as Tabs in the Workspace Preference panel.
I tried the suggestion and initially, it worked although the window photoshop opened was inconsistently sized and had to be adjusted on every opening so as to not block my Layers, Channels, Tools, etc. panels, which appear on the background layer. OK, at least that worked---until it didn’t. In the meantime, Photoshop continued to give me the error message, even though I had taken their suggestion.
Most recently, the message has been shortened to:
Could not open "xxx.xxx" because there isn't enough room to dock it on this monitor.
That there is suddenly not enough room to dock an image in a 30” monitor with either Workspace setting is baffling. I have tried resetting Preferences in both LR and Photoshop to no avail. The only way around this is to restart Photoshop and try again. Usually, but not always, restarting Photoshop fixes the problem for one or two image edits and then it fails again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really preferred the original workspace setting that Opened Documents as Tabs and would love to get it working again.
