Marlene, are you wrestling with the newer Tabs interface - where the files are still open but only one active one is visible at a time? if so there is a setting in prefs that opens files as "floating" documents again. if the files are truely closing, that sounds like a bug. -frank >Hi all, >I just installed the CS5 suite, and Photoshop is driving me crazy by >refusing to keep more than one window open. When I open another file >the first one automatically closes. I'v tried every approach I can >think of, and could find nothing promising in Preferences. Help! >Thanks in advance, >Marlene > > > -- Frank Ippolito Principal Scientific Assistant Div. Vertebrate Paleontology American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street NY NY 10024 (212) 769-5812 [log in to unmask] http://www.productionpost.com http://research.amnh.org/~esg/ Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at http://citnews.unl.edu/presentmethods_lana/listserv/index.html