Adobe engineer. It's a shame such fundamental requirements still not fixed for years! Shameful. FoxIT seems to be replacing Adobe.

This pdf reader still freaking not able to reopen the last view page!!!!!!!!! That options specified above works intermittently! What a shame. FoxIT Reader is the way to go. What a bump!

Hi all : @Paul - yes, the implementation is both poorly designed and defective, but if you realise that it does not give you (the user) control of sessions, and work within the constraints, we might be able to at least get the feature working for you. Don't expect a well-thought-out system like FoxIt; Acrobat Reader only opens the *last* session (if the moon is in the right phase. Sometimes it just forgets that you had a last session, or only opens some of the files). You can't load a session on demand, or force it to record a session to open later.
Also, If I'm reading correctly between the lines, some of the posters are expecting that the feature will record the session with files that are open at the time the feature is enabled. That's not correct. It only starts remembering things as session content after it's enabled, and the app is subsequently restarted. Then it will start to remember the files you open. So after you enable the feature, shut Reader down, start Reader up, load some files... these will become your "last session". If you shut Reader down after that, and start Reader up again, it will re-load only that "last session". Don't expect Reader to remember what you've got open right now, if you turn on the "restore session" feature. It won't.

Back in 2016 or 2107, I wrote a set of requirements for this feature, submitted to Adobe, and was overjoyed when they implemented the feature eventually. But disappointed when it bore no resemblance to the requirements I wrote. (@Jorge - yes, I included named sessions that could be saved and reloaded later but this was not implemented). Also @Sebastian- yes, the "Load everything in the foreground" feature frustrates me too. It happens even when Reader is not the foreground app ! It's just defective.

"Restore Previous Session"? No it does not. Have been battling this for HOURS. Clicked all the correct preferences boxes. Uninstalled. Reinstalled. Delete preferences on disk. Retried. Closed. Reopened. NOTHING WORKS!!!! Installing Foxit reader...

Many people keep asking for the option "to save/load previous sessions", not the latest but "previous sessions". This feature is fundamental for productivity and it seems not implemented yet. We beg the developers to take action, we've been waiting a lot for it.
Keep an aye on upcoming updates.
Thanks,
Jorge

The feature is great, the implementation however makes it unusable for me! Why? Well what does Reader when you have it registered as pdf viewer, it is closed and you open a pdf? It opens the requested document shows it for maybe 1 second, then starts to open the recently opened documents in the foreground and keeps the last document visible when finished.
@Ayush Jain it should be urgently changed to load the recent documents in the background and keep the document in the foreground.
Thanks!
Sebastian

Awesome that this has been implemented. I've been needing to locate all my PDF documents to open again every time I restart my computer. This is a godsend.

I have clicked this button under preference, general, restore last session, then click OK... but it doesn't actually.

When I open it again, the preference still show the restore last session as checked, however, it starts the PDF from the cover page.

I uninstalled and completely wiped it from computer and did a refresh re-install, but it still will not work. Called 3 Adobe # and none of them will help because this isn't a paid service.

I also have tried saving as on the page I'm stopping at, and overriding the previous pdf, but this doesn't do anything either.

Any suggestions?

It would be usedful to have the option to save pdf sessions and reopen them later. For academics and whoever else works with multiple PDFs at the same time, it would be very useful. Reopening PDFs from last session is already very helpful but having the option to open groups of PDFs relevant to each other would be life-saving.

This feature is great, thank you thank you thank you. Very useful

How do you get it to open to the page at which you last left off? Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

For those having an issue with this latest update, has any one tried searching for.... installing an older version ?
It looks like you can download them from here:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/AcrobatDC/
...just as a temporary fix anyhow.
And then, have you submitted a "bug report"... however, wherever that's done (I don't know myself) through the official issues channel ? It just doesn't seem like this is the spot to report specific issues.

Changing the 'Disable document auto-save' didnt help...

Very annoying Adobe.

Sad to see there is no concern from the company.

Please get rid of the "reopen closed PDFs" popup. This pops up every time despite having closed previous PDFs properly. Is it me or does the reader get worse with every update? IE: some PDFs dont allow to rotate the view - wth?

I might have fixed this for me - from the edit > accessibility > setup assist menu I selected Disable document auto-save

Continuous pop up. Driving me crazy!

For those having issues... just FYI
For myself (and I believe many others), this is a welcomed update that's Very helpful. I don't know anyone myself that has the issue that's been described in this forum. Myself.... I use a Win 7 Pro 64-bit laptop as well as a Win 10 Pro 64-bit desktop and am using Acrobat Reader DC 2019.012.20035
I can't tell if anyone is looking at this forum/thread as a basis to respond to the issues you are having, but if it hasn't been done already.... I would perhaps suggest trying to open a new thread that's specific to reporting the problem.

Piece of junk...can't save settings...stupid restore message every time...get better programmers

I guess this thread is dead to the developer that replied with this new feature that is broken and not necessary anyway? Maybe they will fix it, I’m sure enough people are having the issue to get it patched especially since the feature apparently does nothing when you click restore anyway. I don’t know if this happens in dc standard or pro, but if I was using the paid version I’d be even more irritated. Please fix this!!

Problem still exists, please fix or remove this awful feature that no one needs anyway.

Still getting this message even with latest updates