Adobe Bridge Cache problem

When I try to open Bridge I repeatedly get a message telling me to purge the cache. I have tried doing this, but Bridge just runs very very slowly or hangs. I have to close my PC down to get Bridge to re-start.

Try the suggestions mentioned on the below article and check if that helps.
http://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/troubleshoot-errors-freezes-bridge-windows.html
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CS2: Adobe Bridge Cache File on Desktop...Why?

For some unknown reason...CS2 has started placing "Adobe Bridge Cache" file shortcuts on my desktop. When I click on one, I receive a Win XP error message that says the file .bc is unkown and can't be opened.
These shortcuts have never appeared before. Now the simple act of opening Bridge and looking at jpeg files seems to initiate it.
Questions: Why is PS doing this? Do I need to pay attention to it? If not, how do I stop PS from cluttering up my desktop.
Thanks!
Ed

Ed,
Yes you can. The cache facilitates the quick display of images in a folder.
When there's no cache, Bridge has to render thumbnails from every image file upon viewing a folder's contents. This can take a couple of minutes.
Rob
P.S.
>I do, indeed, have image files in a folder on my desktop.
This would mean that there is a cache inside that folder, *not* on the desktop itself.

Feature Request (again); Adobe Bridge Cache Manager

In Adobe Bridge, the Cache is still a problem and a huge memory hog. I asked for a good Cache Manager over 3 years ago when it was needed CS4.
Now in CS6, I am disappointed that the cache system in Bridge has not changed. Why do you have a section in the Adobe Forums that asks for 'Feature Request' and then ignore them?
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2652688#2652688
"I would personally like a tool within Bridge that allows me to manage and control the Cache in a more personal and effective way. I would like a toggle that would keep '100% previews' in one folder for a selected period of time (1 day to 1 month) before the folder's cache is automatically purged. And another toggle that would give me the option to keep a selected folder's cache permanently intact (such as an Important Portfolio Folder or an Edited Images Folder).
As a photographer, I take and edit a lot of photos. When I import a photoshoot with 1,500 photos (not uncommom at all) I enjoy having the Bridge Previews at 100%, but for only a limited time. Unfortunately, I forget to purge the individual cache of that folder and the cache builds to a point that makes Adobe Bridge CS4 very slow. I then have to Purge the whole Bridge Cache in order to make Bridge run smooth again.

gumbogood wrote:
A Cache Manager tool that lets me either schedule a cache cleaning on a folder, or keep it permanent, would be a huge help. And I don't think that it is unreasonable for me to ask this of Adobe.
If you submit a feedback poll where Yammer pointed you, and it gets a couple of hundred (thousand?) users agree you might get Adobe's attention.
I agree with Yammer that Bridge is a low priority project with Adobe. Think their target audience is the casual user with a few hundred photos added each year. Your use pattern is more specialized and you either have to adapt with scripts or move to another product IMO.
The size of cache takes a lot of people by surprise. It can grow humongous if you use HQ thumbs and save 100% previews. One can dump the cache in preferences, but many are reluctant to to this as they think it will delete all their keywords and edits. In addition, to do a search you have to re-index all your files, which can take a long time.
If you have "export cache to folders" checked, dumping the cache in preferences only dumps the central cache. To dump the folder cache you have to visit each folder and click on Tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder. Again, most people do not recognize this. This technique purges both the central and folder cache for this folder only.
It the 100% previews are the problem for you it would seem like a simple task for the script people to write one that would delete it after xx days as the 100% previews are held in a specific folder.
Bridge is not a good digital asset manager. You are probably in that arena dealing with several hundred thousand images. Omke uses a DAM as it does some functions better than Bridge, but Bridge is still his main program. Can't remember the name, but if you read these posts you might have seen it.

Purging Adobe Bridge Cache

ACK! Ok, so I am a photographer, not a computer person. I'm a single middle aged mom going back to school and my minor is photography..... I am still learning all I can do in CS5.... I just recently noticed my computer slowing down and now I am getting a pop up when I launch Bridge telling me to purge the cache folder in preferences.
First off I don't completely understand what the cache folder is or what it does.
Secondly I know enough to know not to trust all popups.... so i need to understand what I lose if I purge the system.
Third... what options do I have to fix this problem?
Any help in basic untechy simple minded mom terms would be fabulous. I really need to understand what this cache thing is...and what problems I am going to encounter if I purge it.... and what options I have to stop the pop up but maintain integrity of my files.
thanks!!!
Jen

Any help in basic untechy simple minded mom terms would be fabulous.
I never have met a simple minded mom, and one who decided to go back to school could not simple minded so I leave that qualification to you, nevertheless CS5 is pretty complicated so basic untechy is not all that easy...
Without knowing what computer system you are on I give it a try.
Curt already told you that it was save to purge this cache.
The cache folder in Bridge contains data that is created by Bridge when it produced viewable thumbnails and High Quality previews, purging this data would only mean that you trash this data and have to let Bridge again build it's previews and thumbnails so you can see them again in the content and preview window. No more no less. So dumping this cache only causes you the problem of letting it run this process again.
This takes a bit time depending on amount and size of file, obvious the more files and size the longer it takes.
But be aware of the fact that it is possible Bridge Cache is not the only thing causing your computer to behave slow. Usually You should have at least 10% of free space left on your Hard Drive, this space is needed for the computer to write down temporarily files and data and the more space the quicker it will be but a minimum of 10 % is a common rule.
Also having multiple applications running and not having enough RAM (memory that applications use to store temporarily data) is also causing problems.
And to learn more besides from school try adobe TV and view some tutorials about Bridge.

Bridge cache problem! HELP!!

Every time I open Bridge I get an error message "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read Cache. Please try purging central cache to solve solution." I have gone to the Edit tab, preference option and purged cache, but no luck. Message still pops up and is not allowing me to work on photos. Please HELP!!

Every time I open Bridge I get an error message "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read Cache. Please try purging central cache to solve solution."
I am using Adobe Bridge CS6 on Windows 8, with Canon 5D Mark III camera. This issue has begun about two- three weeks ago. Now, it has begun to intervene where I can't work on photos. Bridge works too slow and freezes up and I can't do anything.
I have tried fixing it by going to the
Edit tab
preference option
and purged cache
(several times). But no luck. Message still pops up every time I open the program.
Sometimes I get an error message saying Bridge has low memory and I need to restart the program.
Has anyone had this problem or know how or where I can find a solution? I NEED to work on my photos ASAP! Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bridge Cache problem

Every time I open Bridge I get an error message "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read Cache. Please try purging central cache to solve solution."
I am using Adobe Bridge CS6 on Windows 8, with Canon 5D Mark III camera. This issue has begun about two- three weeks ago. Now, it has begun to intervene where I can't work on photos. Bridge works too slow and freezes up and I can't do anything.
I have tried fixing it by going to the
Edit tab
preference option
and purged cache
(several times). But no luck. Message still pops up every time I open the program.
Sometimes I get an error message saying Bridge has low memory and I need to restart the program.
Has anyone had this problem or know how or where I can find a solution? I NEED to work on my photos ASAP! Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Every time I open Bridge I get an error message "Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read Cache. Please try purging central cache to solve solution."
I am using Adobe Bridge CS6 on Windows 8, with Canon 5D Mark III camera. This issue has begun about two- three weeks ago. Now, it has begun to intervene where I can't work on photos. Bridge works too slow and freezes up and I can't do anything.
I have tried fixing it by going to the
Edit tab
preference option
and purged cache
(several times). But no luck. Message still pops up every time I open the program.
Sometimes I get an error message saying Bridge has low memory and I need to restart the program.
Has anyone had this problem or know how or where I can find a solution? I NEED to work on my photos ASAP! Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Corrupt Files in Adobe Bridge Cache

Bridge has left me with corrupted files in Bridge Cache which I cannot delete, or scan with Macafee or look at with any other program I have.
When I access the folder containing the corrupt files my PC just hangs.
I have the latest versions of Photoshop and Lightroom running on Windows 7 (64 bit).
Can anyone help?

Apparently some programs can read them, but general advice is to use an underscore instead of a dot.
Before Mac OS X (that was based on unix) it would not make any difference how many dot's, commas, spaces, slashes, etc you where using, the file always opened in the correct application.
But used to that I soon came to realize that not all systems work this way and since I have to distribute my files for commercial use I made a habit of using only 1 dot in a filename and that is the one before the extension. No spaces (instead an underscore '_' or divider '-') and no other 'strange' characters like /, \, '', :,' etc. but normal alphabetic and numeric ones.
I also started to use the creation date in my filenames starting with yyyymmdd and some extra info and sequence number for series. Sometimes people have trouble to find or open the jpeg attachments from my Apple Mail send emails to a windows machine but otherwise I have no problems with clients. I like to keep it that way

Work with the Adobe Bridge cache

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/creativesuite/cs/using/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-736 3a.html

jugenjury,
Here is a post in thead "Bridge Slow to load thumbs, building criteria", where Bridge constantly rebuilds thumbnails. An interesting theory and seems to have some evidence to back it up. Do you have Generate 100% Previews Checked? J&K thinks this is problem in certain instances.
81. J&HK,
May 21, 2013 12:56 AM in reply to SandraChung
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Discovered today, 21 May 2013. HOPEFULLY, the ANSWER!!
Open BRIDGE
Select THUMBNAIL OPTIONS from the icon on the address bar at the right/top of the screen.
This should have HIGH QUALITY PREVIEWS checked.
Check GENERATE 100% PREVIEWS.
Immediately UNCHECK GENERATE 100% PREVIEWS
This should reset the registry key that causes BRIDGE to continuously reload 100% previews of thumbnails!
A further symptom that this is occurring is that once the folder has been re-cached by Bridge (before doing the above), all the image files in that folder will have 100% previews already (no "Loading 100%" when the spacebar has been pressed and a left-click on the image to load the 100% view), even though this switch is un-checked.).
It appears that something causes BRIDGE to set this flag in the registry (incorrectly), while showing the flag as not set in the visual user interface. Setting and un-setting the flag causes the registry key to be correctly re-initialised.
I have encountered this on two PCs running CS6. On my own PC, re-installing CS6 to fix the loss of the connection between BRIDGE and PHOTOSHOP also corrected the above problem, so it appears to be an intermittent fault when CS6 is installed. Sometimes the registry flag is initialised correctly, and sometimes it is not.
The other occurrence was on a friend's PC. That PC has also lost the connection between Bridge and Photoshop, so it could be that the registry "corruption" causes both problems. The continuously loading thumbnails (and displaying the message "Building Criteria ... " while Bridge does this) appear to be resolved by performing the above action (or by re-installing CS6). That PC's owner has now re-loaded a whole swag of his image folders in Bridge. Some have needed to re-cache the thumbnails. When this has been done once (relatively quick, now that Bridge is not re-building 100% previews), returning to that folder loads the Bridge database and thumbnails for that folder almost instantly.
On my own PC, opening a folder containing 900 image files (450 .DNG with original raw embedded + 450 large JPEGs, with user-applied metadata, takes less than 5 seconds). Changing this switch for an open folder immediately precipitates the long process of generating 100% previews for that folder. This is PAINFULLY slow! This operation can only be cancelled by re-setting the switch back to un-checked.
A study of two PCs doth not a representative sample make, I know; but it does seem to validate the theory.

Adobe Bridge database problem

Using Windows XP with 1G RAM and Photoshop Bridge 1.0.4.6 I keep getting the message
"There was a problem with the database and (image name) was not updated correctly. This may affect searches."
It occurs each time that images are added to the computer.
I'm not sure how to cure the problem or whether it is, in fact, causing a problem.
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Hello Curt and thank you for replying.
Ok I agree it does that, i don't understand why i don't have the rectangle in stead of the plus sign tho., so let me give you an example of what i mean.
I watched the adobe video tutorial where the lady did a batch rename, went thru the process, i followed along, i renamed my files i. e.: _mikes pictures_0001.jpg thru _mikes pictures_0008.jpg no problem,
but when she did the keyword "boston boats" it put "boston boats" in the picture along with her filenames. She clicked on the window icon or "plus" icon, typed in boston in the key word, hit enter, then selected all, when all were highlited, she checked the boston rectangle and the word boston was in her pictures.
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Don't mean to confuse.
i just got this and am a super newbie
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Elements 8.0 and Adobe Bridge CS4 problem

I have two problems that appeared in Elemens 8.0 and Adobe Brigde CS4 recently. I'm using the Mac version and a Macbook Pro (4 months old).
I don't really know where to address the problem, but I hope someone in this forum would be able to advice me.
Problem 1
When I browse a RAW-file in Bridge and click the photo to view a 100% zoom and then go back to a normal view, after a few seconds the photo turns alot darker. I've got alot of macro photos of flower and they really loose structure in this process and I would say they get damaged.
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I think this solved the problem, at least some of it.
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But when I start Bridge now, only some of the files changes color slightly in the thumbnails view. The zoom (loading 100%) also looks different, it zoomed to 800% earlier even though it said 100%, it sort of never ended.
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ABAP WD application -Adobe form -Cache problem

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work with an Imac, version Moutain Lion 10.8.2 and with PS6.
I get this message when opening PS6 Bridge, see upper section of the annex. If I click Ok pressure I can continue working.Don't know what good that cache content and for which this actually serves. have already emptied via preferences cache cache, this problem is not yet solved. Can some one help me whit this problem.
Translate the error message
"There was an error in Bridge causing the cache cannot be read. Try to clear the cache in the Central cache preferences to resolve the situation."
I hope this is a correct translate, my English is not super , sorry.

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Adobe Bridge "Permissions" Problem

I am using PSE8 with ACR 5.7 & Abode Bridge CS4 v3.0 on a MacBook Pro (running OS 10.6.8). After editing an image in ACR, I am unable to delete the original in Bridge. I get the error message: "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient permissions". I have been using Bridge for the past few years with so such problem. I tried repairing disk permissions to no avail. A search of the archives didn't reveal any suggestions. I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you kindly.

As per your suggestion, I took a screenshot & dragged it into a new folder. I opened the folder & dragged the sreenshot image to the trash. Worked fine. However, oddly I did notice this: When I dragged the image into the trash, I immediately get a pop-up window asking if I want to permanently delete the image in the trash. In other words, I cannot simply drag the image into the trash & leave it there until such time as I choose "empty trash" from the Finder drop-down menu. Very odd.
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I keep getting a message telling me Bridge (CC) can't read the cache, purge the cache in preferences.
I've purged the cache and restarted Bridge a dozen times, and keep geting the same message.

Must be on a mac. Some users only get relief from a manual delete of cache files.

Clear central cache? (in Adobe Bridge) message

I am using iMac with 10.5.8 and running Adobe CS3. In Bridge I am getting the following message:
"Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read the cache. Please try purging the central cache in cache preferences to correct the situation."
I cannot find any cache under the Adobe folders so does this mean it is an OS cache?
Can anyone help? I think it is a Mac problem but if more expert users than me think it is an Adobe one I will try there for answers.
Your help is much appreciated, as always!

I've had this problem on and off for years. I would purge the central cache like it says but it wouldn't fix the problem.
Finally, I found out how to perform a master reset on Adobe Bridge and posted about it at the link below.
http://easttexashomestead.com/2014/08/adobe-bridge-cache-error-fixed-with-factor y-reset/
Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read the cache. please try purging the central cache in cache preferences to correct the situation.
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