Adjust Adobe Bridge Content panel display

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Why can't I change the thumbnail in Bridge?
What do you mean with that, what do you like to change, names, ratings, size, quality??
And what version are you using

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I re-downloaded my Photoshop recently and Adobe Bridge no longer displays my Nikon NEF files and Camera Raw will not open them. I get a message saying that Camera Raw does not support my camera type but it always has in the past.
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I use Abobe Bridge as the host application for Camera Raw. For me, it makes much more sense than hunting for images from Photoshop.
I think it's been at least three years—probably longer—since I noticed that Bridge has a habit of extracting some previews when they should already be cached, every time I bring Bridge to the foreground. I tried to ignore it, but as the number of images in the Content panel increases, so it seems that the number of repeat extractions increased. If you are dealing with hundreds of images at once, this can place a heavy load on the computer. An older computer can really struggle. Even with my super duper new computer, the 8 virtual CPUs can shoot up to 50% usage for 10 seconds every time Bridge gets focus because of this issue. And, since Camera Raw 7.3, the situation has got worse.
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Yammer,
Thanks for such a comprehensive reply.
Sorry for the delay in responding but I have been playing around with your settings and it has taken awhile to get to grips with the anomalous consequences I've noticed.
Preliminaries: My test folder comprises a copy of 13 .CR2 images from which all previous Develop Settings were removed followed by removal of the.XMP sidecars and finally a Purge Cache for the folder. In the Bridge Preferences\Cache - 'Keep 100% Previews In Cache' is Unselected and 'Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible' is Selected.
Step 1: duplicate your "altered defaults" (3rd last paragraph in your post #17) for all 13 images.
Caused no problems when switching focus away from Bridge entirely or between folders in Bridge. However, closing and reopening Bridge from the test folder initiated new thumbnail extractions (together with 1 cache export - expected). The weird thing is that, AFAICT, there were only 7 extractions. It happens pretty fast with only 13 images but I did it a number of times and am confident that the number did not exceed 8. And here's something quite unexpected: the same problem occurs, with the same number of extractions, when closing and reopening Photoshop (Ps) whilst Bridge has its focus on the test folder.
Step 2: remove automatic lens corrections (for the benefit of others, not you Yammer: Unselect Lens Corrections\Profile\Enable Lens Profile Corrections). I chose this as my initial variation of your defaults because it is not normally one of mine.
This stops the repeating extractions when switching focus away from or within Bridge (which was never there anyway) but also after closing and reopening Bridge and or Ps.
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Again, no problem when switching focus within or away from Bridge, but the repeated extractions, with the same number, return after closing and reopening Bridge and or Ps (whilst the focus in Bridge is on the test folder).
So, at least for me, contrary to what I believed in my post #10, the re-extractions problem is not resolved, and it seems likely to be related to, if not caused entirely by, whether or not you have selected lens corrections.
Don't know whether any of this helps you, Yammer, but maybe a starting point for further investigation?

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Bridge CC - Content Panel looks different than Preview

Problem - Images in the Content panel look dull and desaturated. The view of the same image in the Preview Panel, as well as Photoshop CC, looks fine (ie, like I expect from working with these images in CS6). This applies to NEF, JPEG and PSD files. In the attached screenshot, note the distinct lack of red in the skin tones in the Content Panel compared to Preview. Blues look a little dull as well. This is a PSD file. This image is tagged sRGB, verified in the Metadata panel as well as in Photoshop CC.
I have read similar threads here (where all of Bridge was dull and desaturated), but I don't see anything that mentions the two panels in Bridge displaying images differently.
Background - 10 years as a pro photographer, and I know what I'm doing around a Mac and color management. I finally "upgraded" from CS6 to CC when I got my new Mac.
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Retina iMac w/Yosemite. Second monitor - HP LP2475w (Bridge sits on the HP monitor)
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Steps Already taken (condensed)
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2. Check color cache and cache permissions.
3. Reinstall Bridge at the behest of Adobe support, even though this was a new install.
4. Check that "Always high quality" thumbnails is checked in Bridge (this seems to have no effect either way).
5. Check color settings - NA GP2 in Bridge. Interestingly, the same behavior is exhibited no matter what I select here.
6. Drag Bridge to the iMac display - everything now looks good. Drag back - now BOTH Content and Preview are desaturated. Will stay like this until Bridge is restarted.
7. Recalibrate the HP (Bridge) monitor. No change in behavior.
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1. This seems unlikely to be a monitor profile issue. Bridge itself is displaying the same PSD two different ways. A bad profile would make everything on that monitor look wrong, wouldn't it?
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4. Maybe Bridge ignores the profile for the content panel - but in the case of no profile, it assumes sRGB (or does it?) which is exactly what this image is. I have tried this with Adobe RGB images and the same behavior is exhibited.
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It would be very useful to see each set of multiple exposures on a separate line in Adobe Bridge so I can quickly choose which set to use for processing in HDR
You can't do so in Bridge when having different amounts of series. If you shot always 5 you could drag the content window to a new size in combination with changing the thumbnail size so 5 thumbs would show in a row. The same with 3 but there is no way to have a content window showing 1 line with 3 and 1 line with 5 files in the same panel.
In filmstrip mode you have 1 single line but that does not meet you wishes also.
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I'm having an issue with Bridge CC were I setup a smart collection to monitor my new photos.
You might want to describe this workflow a bit more. Do you create this from an existing folder or are you adding new photo's?
A Smart Collection does not refreshes it self automatically. You either have to use the edit icon top right of the content panel to save again or deselect and select the collection itself to let it refresh the content.

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Bridge appears to be locked into the Light Box workspace, except that there is no preview panel. The only panel available is the Content panel; when I select one or more files, there is/are no previews.
This is what the window looks like.
So far, these are the things I have tried, to no avail:
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First try to delete the Bridge plist file from the user library.
Quit Bridge and go to the user library (by default hidden per OSX10.7, use menu Go with option to reveal).
User (your user name) / library/ Preferences / inhere find and manual delete the file called "com.adobe.bridge5.plist".
Again hold down option key while restart and again reset prefs.
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Repeat this also for Photoshop (both same library / app support and preferences) for back up security of your custom settings because Bridge is part of PS install in CS6.
Be sure to have your install disk or image file for PSCS6 at hand including the serial number. Use the official uninstaller and once you are doing so also try the Adobe Cleaner Tool :
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Process:
Adobe Bridge CC [342]
Path:
/Applications/Adobe Bridge CC/Adobe Bridge CC.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Bridge CC
Identifier:
com.adobe.bridge6
Version:
Code Type:
X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [99]
Date/Time:
2015-03-14 12:33:37.617 +0100
OS Version:
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:
424686 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:
7
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   7
Anonymous UUID:
D26D2B7A-D5F9-4B8B-8FE3-0D77F6FDEF2A
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
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Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Adobe Bridge CC/Adobe Bridge CC.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/dvanet.framework/Versions/A/dvanet
Reason: Incompatible library version: dvanet requires version 7.0.0 or later, but libcurl.4.dylib provides version 6.0.0
Binary Images:
0x7fff5fc00000 -
0x7fff5fc3be0f dyld 132.1 (???) <29DECB19-0193-2575-D838-CF743F0400B2> /usr/lib/dyld
Model: iMac7,1, BootROM IM71.007A.B03, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 2 GB, SMC 1.21f4
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