Photoshop restore opened files workspace suggestion

Hi,
I have a suggestion for a feature that would take a snapshot of all your opened files and placement in photoshop and restore them the next time you restart photoshop. The idea would be if you need to log out everyday or reboot machine, you don't need to spend time reopening all the files you work with previously. Now your first reaction would be 'What for? You have the recently opened files feature...' Well the recently opened files feature is limited to 30 and also files are sometimes named randomly with letters and numbers in the context of digital photography. I have no idea which file number I was using the last time I worked with and I have several thousands to hunt through. You can of course organize collections and flagged them but it is still time consuming to resource all the files.
In a professional environment workplace, we are often required to log out and log back in on a daily basis. If you have a big project ongoing with 20 source material opened, it would be great to take a snapshot of that and restore your photoshop desktop the next time you fire up.
Pushing this frame of mind, I think a navigator like mode (similar to the compositing software Nuke) would be very helpful.
Thanks,
Lino

This is a good place to solicit comments from other users, and while occasionally some Adobe people duck in here, there's actually an even better place for making suggestions:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
Your suggestion sounds like a nice, logical extension of the Workspace maintenance capability Photoshop has now.
Personally, I'd like to see your suggestion implemented, and even tied into a "recover last good workspace" capability, to facilitate recovery from an unexpected crash or failure.
-Noel

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