in one hit, or is the only way one by one.  Everytime a new message pops up in photoshop I have to also move it's window over to my new monitor and then if I unplug my monitor for some reason then they all move back onto my first monitor and I have to move them all again.

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I'd take a wild guess that what you want is under the window>workspace menu. Save a workspace when you have all the stuff positioned where you want it. When you want all those pallets and stuff positioned there again, load that workspace.

I will try this and see.  But I only want to try and restore my saved workspace if I have to as I might end up having to drag all my palettes back to the second monitor again.

so I've saved a workspace but I'm not testing it as yet.

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the reason I think it might not work is that when yesterday I disconnected my monitor and all the palettes went back to the other screen, I was still in the same workspace when I reconnected but the palettes didn't automatically find their way back to my second monitor.

They may jump and not jump back, but after re-connecting simply load it again. I'm having a feeling you're assuming the software is smarter than it is. Unless you're saving it after things jump to the other positions, the loading of the workspace should move things back.

aha.  well I hope you are right as that will make my life a whole lot easier.

I have moved photoshop on the second monitor.  because i'm on mac I can't bring the top bar across unless I want to keep it there for the day (it's in display preferences) but since I work on poser etc at the same time on my other screen I prefer not to. I've put a thing called secondbar up there which works fairly well so far (a little slow and glitchy at times)

I could have mirrored but my displays are at different resolutions so that wasn't good when I tried it.

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you'd actually would want the pallette to move back when disconected from the second monitor, because there's noting worst then having a window pop-up off screen with no way to access it!! (have had this happen to me before and it's a pain in the body-part!!)

i haven't tried the workspace method (spanning screens...) but theoretically it should work (i'll try it myself when i get to the office)

yes, of course - very good point, but when the tablet gets turned back on after the disconnection I would like them to pop back to their prior positions.  which I am hoping you have solved.

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you were right.  clicking my workspace twice reverts it back to how it was on my other monitor.  thanks so much.

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