About bridge and extreme sloth

Question

Setup: Running win7-64bit, on i7 with 8GB ram, using tools from the cloud (trial)
If this is the wrong forum for bridge there seems to be no forum for bridge specifically so posting here because I'm currently using bridge with PR.
After downloading all the still and videos from days work, (5 videos and some 50+ stills plus the raw formats too), I'm trying to go through them, do some renaming and general organizing prior to loading videos into PR.
At first I thought the new bridge had no right click functions, since when I attempt to right click an image or series of images nothing happens.  No menu is raised.
But, finally the right click menu appeared and I was able to batch rename.  But every little chore, renaming, copying to somewhere else and even just moving around I find to be like wading through thick (deep) mud.
I have PR and Bridge open along with Google earth but no other process is really processing data or doing other heavy lifting except bridge.
Is 8gb of ram just too puny for the newest adobe tools, or are there steps I can take that will allow bridge to function at something approaching a reasonable speed?

Answer 1

Curt Y wrote:
In the lower right hand corner of Bridge you will see an arrow.  If it is spinning it means it is building the cache.  With CS6 it seems to lock up the application until finished, and seems to take longer than in CS5.  Thumbnails seem to build at the rate of about 1 second for every 30 meg.  So for a 300 meg video file it takes about 10 seconds, at least on my system.  Once the cache is built then things run at a good clip. 
(PS - Processor speed: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q820  @  1.73GHz  1.73GHz)
I see a pause in actions even after the arrow quits spinning (I guess you meant the lower LEFT side?).
For example, once the arrow quits, if I click a top menu item (any one of them) I experience a second pause nearly as long as the arrow spin pause, before the menu opens.  Once that has happened then other menu items or the same one are normally fast to respond to a click.
A further example of what seems to be uneccessary sloth happens if I minimize bridge or focus on a differnt app window such as this browser, then go back to bridge and click a menu item, I see a full 5/6 second pause before the menu is displayed. After having clicked and waited on one menu item, the rest respond normally to a click
A quick look at what a session might look like:
Click a directory in folder (or content) view (wait out a 4/6 second pause)
Once the directory has opened press Ctrl-a to select all images (wait out a 4/6 second pause) click a new directory (wait out a 4/6 second pause) right click to get to `paste' or press Ctrl-v  (wait out a 4/6 second pause).
Not really a workable flow (at least not for me).
Curt Y wrote:[...]
Also check your thumbnals.  I use embedded as they are small and fast.  If you use HQ, and generate 100% preview they can use a lot of disk space and would take longer to build.  Thumbnail options are two squares on 2nd line of tool bar on right hand side.
Switching between "Always high quality" and "Prefer imbedded" I don't see any noticable change.  But that is on directories with fairly small content, like a mixture of 40 raw and 40 jpg stills at 6000x4000. Something like  1.35 GB of data. The *.jpg are about 10MB and the (raw) *.arw are about 24 MB.
One really maddening thing I see here, is that when I've been focused on some other app window, then come back to bridge and right click on an image in a open directory, the pause for the right click menu to show up is a full 8 seconds.
And that right click pause never goes away.  That is, if I right click andwait for the menu, then right click on the next image I have another 4/6 second pause for the menu to appear.
Curt Y wrote:
For some reason if you purge cache with Tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder they seem to rebuild much faster.
I don't see any noticable change here following that proceedure.
Curt Y wrote:
Bridge is more dependant on processor speed than RAM.
How much processor speed is requred to not see these nasty pauses?
On my current working machine, the repeated pausing in bridge has meant that its nearly useless.  Bridge ends up being saved only for mass rename or image processing chores.