Cs5 opens fine with 2 monitors but not with one? (Macintosh)

Hi, I use a macbook pro with an external apple display.
When I open a file in CS5 and the second monitor is plugged in, everything opens perfectly. The tabs are in the 2nd monitor and the image opens in that same monitor.
However, when the monitor is NOT plugged in and I try to open a file on the laptop alone, the application opens fine, the tabs open (I can see the image I am trying to open as a thumbnail in the layers palatte) BUT the image itself does not appear. If I then plug in the apple display the image appears over there on the second monitor. I cannot explain what happened to make this change and now I cannot make it work so that I can work on files without a 2 monitor being plugged in....
Many thanks for any help
Thanks, Roger

Welcome to the forum.
This is just a guess, and does come from a PC-user, so might not apply, but if you have a dual-monitor setup, there is a likliehood, that some parts of PS are displayed only on your second monitor. Before deactivating your second monitor, I would check that NOTHING in PS is showing on the second monitor - no dialog boxs, etc., NOTHING.
To illustrate, friend brought his new MacBook Pro over to show me how well PS worked on it. He kept getting what appeared to be program hangs, with many operations - nothing would work, and he had to kill PS, as it became unresponsive. I watched the operations, that were seemingly hanging the program, and tested on my PC laptop. He allowed as how he normally had a dual monitor setup, back in Colorado, so I just grabbed a spare monitor, and we hooked it up.Viola, each of those operations had their dialog screen showing up on the second monitor. They were working fine, but without that second monitor, they were invisible, and waiting for input, hence the program seemed to hang. He moved all of those to the main monitor, we disconnected the second monitor, and all was good again.
Not sure if things like dialog boxes would be affected, but you might want to explore creating a Custom Workspace, that ONLY shows on the main monitor, and then, when the second monitor is unplugged, just choose THAT Workspace.
Good luck, and hope that helps,
Hunt

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