Bridge CS3 Unable to delete

I am unable to delete any thumbnails. Ctrl-delete doesn't work. Delete doesn't work. Do I uninstall and reinstall?

Thanks Kurt. Tried your solution twice and the problem persists. Which preferences - Photoshop or Bridge? Do I have to undo and reset each preference?

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Don't have permission to delete files in Preview or Adobe Bridge CS3

Help!
I'm unable to delete image files in Preview or Adobe Bridge CS3.
Workflow:
1. Take a bunch of photos on my Nikon
2. Load them to my MacBook Pro, 10.6.3
3. Open them in Preview and right-click "Move to Trash" on the photos that I don't want.
==> this results in "Move to Trash Failed. Some files could not be moved to Trash."
4. If I open the bunch of photos in Adobe Bridge CS3 and command-delete the photos that I don't want
==> I get "The operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient permissions."
I am logged in as the same user who loaded the image files.
Permission on the image folder start out at
me: Read & Write
admin: Read only
everyone: Read only
but even if I change all to Read & Write, I still get the same errors.
What's going on?????
Thanks.

Did you ever figure this one out? I'm having the same issue...

Bridge CS3 no longer renders RAW thumbnails

Running PSE9 on OS 10.8.2 Mountain Lion. Also running Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9 that I believe came bundled with PSE4 and which I have become fond of using as a tool for importing photos and other steps early in my workflow. I shoot almost exclusively in RAW and sometimes in RAW/JPEG. Recently, having made no change that I can remember, Bridge is no longer able to render thumbnails of the RAW files, instead showing just a thumbnail of a white sheet with the corner turned down; JPEG thumbnails render just fine.
I would be extremely grateful for anyone that can help me get the RAW thumbnails working again. I suspect some anciliary file outside of the main program package since Adobe is so fond of sprinking useful files all over the place if that rings any bells.
I have tried to find a standalone Bridge CS3 installer on the web that I might use to re-write whatever is missing but I cannot find it. It's an unusual request but if anyone would lend theirs to me I would also be grateful.
Thank you in advance.

Turns out my sister is more a packrat than me and she still had her original PSE6 disk, which was also bundled with Bridge CS3. Uninstalled/deleted 9 and Bridge and removed every trace of them and prior versions I could find (e.g Library files) to a flash drive. Installed 6 along with Bridge and all seems to be back to normal.
Hopefully everything else still works right and I won't have to try-and-err putting Library files back one-by-one or something. Once it feels like all is stable I'll be putting in my upgrades to PSE9.
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Deleting Adobe Bridge CS3 Cache on Windows XP

Hi!
I need help deleting the Adobe Bridge CS3 Cache on Windows XP.
Not just purging thanks!

Well, you're welcome here any time, Emily, but this is the Adobe Bridge
Macintosh
forum.
The Windoze forum is across the hall. :)

Unable to Open Images in Bridge CS3 and Continuing Icon issues!

Re: Icon issues in Bridge CS3 and also with Photo Downloader that have never been there before.
So, these are the issues. Just one of the folders that previously would show thumbnails now only shows DNG icons, and none will open in Photoshop to let me work on previous image. Issue #2 - can't download images with Photo Downloaders - both my wife's Canon G9 only shows CR2 icons, and my Nikon D300 only shows NEF icons - neither of these issues had appeared before or been an issue. Third issue. None of my Bridge folders - even those with regular thumbnail immages- will open now - get a message that says words to the effect of Photoshop doesn't recognize this type of file. Computer is a Mac, with OS 10.5.8
I recently tried to make more room on HD, so must have taken some critical files/commands out by accident.
Thanks for your time and previous suggestions - still not working. I'm sure that in trying to correct things have made things even worse- as may be noticed by the two snapshots I've attached. The first is one from a library from my user section. The second library image is from my hard drive. Hopefully you and others aren't laughing or crying too much over what you see - redundantcy, etc! All of my energies have focused on taking photos, obviously none to proper setup/use of organizing things on my Mac. But after the laughing has stopped, any help will be tremendously appreciated - am most anxious to getting back to working with and saving images.
"user image"
Hard Drive image:
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First of all, if you don't know much about how applications work inside of the OS, its wise to not look in the application folder(s). Deleting anything here can make your apps go haywire. If this happened, then you are best to 1)unregister photoshop, 2) uninstall your entire suite. 3) reinstall the suite and finally 4) reregister photoshop.
All images/textures/photo's including dng, cr2 and nef files need to be stored in your pictures folder and no where else, unless you're an intermediate user on your OS. In your pictures folder you can create folders for organizing the pictures whether by location, season's, time, or file format.
Then when you back up you can just drag a copy of the files to another drive including cd's or dvd's.
This will make sure you don't accidently delete important app files.
All this said, my OS of choice is Windows, so if anything does not sound right, thats why.
Hopefully this helps...

Xmp sidecar files- move/delete Bridge CS3

Hello
Anybody know a good way to hide the XMP files- or can they be moved to another folder? I don't suppose it is a good idea to delete these sidecar files
Is there a way for me to specify in Bridge CS3 that I do not want the .xmp files to be saved in the same folder as the images they are attached to?
How come .xmp files get saved for some of my tagged images and not others?
thanks

I suppose you could go ahead and make them all hidden files. But you're going to have to do that every time you start working on another new raw file. If you're going to work with raw images you might as well just get used to seeing them. Another alternative would be to use the DNG converter to convert your raw images to DNG files. Then you wouldn't have to worry about XMP files at all because all the metadata is stored within the DNG. But that's up to you.
Another thing to consider. If you hide all those sidecar files and then decide to move your images you will have to go through the process of making them all visible so that you can copy them. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.

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Thanks,
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For some CS4 and snow leopard seem to work flawless and for some others not
and they have problems. Hard to tell what you will experience. CS3 is
developed long before snow leopard and already followed by CS4 so don't hold
your breath on getting updates for CS3
In common when switching to a new OS, especially the brand new first builds,
you should first test if all your old applications work on it before
switching. History proofed that most problems will be solved in the 3th or
4th update for a new OS.
However there is always the free trial from CS4 that will work for 30 days
I am wondering if I upgrade to Photoshop CS4 if Bridge will work then. I
cannot get Bridge CS3 to open at all now. I am running OS 10.6.1. Seems others
are having problems also. If a work around has been found for this problem, I
would appreciate knowing what it is or even what the latest information is on
the problem.

Adobe Bridge CS3 is crashing everytime it attempts to open.

I am running a MacBook Pro with 10.9.4. Today when I attempted to open Bridge CS3, it crashed. No error. Just crash. Repeatedly. I have deleted all Adobe and reinstalled, but Bridge continues to crash. I have used the "shift/option" menu to reset prefs, etc, and it still crashes. I downloaded a supposed patch for Bridge & installed it even though my APP store didn't want me to, and Bridge continues to crash.
I'm a photographer and depend on Bridge as my photo browser.
Any other ideas for me to try?

Well, I don't know what just happened to the gremlins, but get this:
On a whim, I held down only the shift key while attempting once again to open Bridge. And it OPENED without crashing.
I was afraid to let up on the key...but I did and Bridge did not crash. I browsed a couple of photo folders, closed Bridge....reopened it WITHOUT the shift key & it opened. I've now tried that several times and it's not crashing. And while I'm glad it's working, I'm not holding my breath that it will continue to work. WEIRD.
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I tried saving my work space; But this was to no avail.
The work space layout stayed in place but the favorites are still erase when I load the work space.
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Stephen,
Great when things work again; funny how you can try something and it does not work the first time; then magically it does - the joys of software!
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For the last couple of months (without my noticing until a couple days ago) all JPEG files that I have edited using Bridge CS3 (on Windows XP) do not have the metadata built into the file. Here are the symptoms: use "File Info" to edit the metadata for a JPEG file (i.e. add a title, description, copyright info, etc.), all appears normal, but if you do any of the following, the metadata you entered disappears:
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- rebuild the cache for the folder
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Hey,
There are various date/time fields shown in properties panel in Organizer. The dates mentioned in general section are read from OS whereas the dates in EXIF field are read from image's EXIF data. In EXIF data there are three date/time fields-
1. Date time- This date/time info shows date modified of EXIF properties. So when you are writing a tag into imags's IPTC, you are doing some change in EXIF data. Hence this date should change to date when you are writing a tag into IPTC.
2. Date time original - Represents date time when a image was shoot.
3. Date digitized - Represents the date when the image was digitized (in digital camers there is hardly some delay between an image is shoot and it is digitized. So this field is always same as date original).
So, in your scenario, Date time in EXIF should change whenever you are writing any tag into its IPTC.
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NEF Thumbnails not displaying in Bridge CS3

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Outcome - NEF thumbnails still not rendering. By the way my NEF images were produced on a Nikon D60.
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This is the Photoshop Elements forum.
Sounds like you need the ACR or Photoshop or Bridge fora. select from this link:-
http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop?view=overview
It may be worth starting with this link:-
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407110.html

Bridge CS3 Will not open at all

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Theresa

Trying to reset preferences of an Adobe application by clicking a Desktop icon has never worked for me - not Bridge, not Photoshop, not any. However, THIS always works for me:
Try this:
1) Press and hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift, and do not release them until I tell you to.
2) Select the following menus: Start => All Programs => Adobe (whatever suite) => Adobe Bridge CS3.
3) You're still holding down the three keys, right?
4) In a few moments, the Reset Settings dialog will appear containing three checkboxes.
5) Finally, release the Ctrl+Alt+Shift.
6) Turn on all three checkboxes and click OK.
People swear by the Ctrl+click icon method, but that has never worked for me.
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C:\Documents and Settings\{your name}\Application Data\Adobe\Bridge CS3
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How can I get Adobe Media Gallery for Bridge CS3

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You can download the Adobe Reader 10.0.0 installer .EXE file from here:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/10.x/10.0.0/en_US/AdbeRdr1000_en_US.exe
Once you've downloaded it, you can burn it to a disc or copy it to a thumbdrive to bring to the PC that's offline.
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David

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I've had CS3 installed on my system for a few years and for one reason or another have never gotten around to using Bridge. I wanted to play around with it today but it crashes as soon as I try and start it up:
Date/Time: 2009-03-20 14:17:50.770 -0400
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S165)
Report Version: 4
Command: Bridge CS3
Path: /Applications/Adobe/CS3/Adobe Bridge CS3/Bridge CS3.app/Contents/MacOS/Bridge CS3
Parent: WindowServer [3270]
Version: 2.0.0.975 (2.0.0.975)
PID: 3913
Thread: Unknown
Link (dyld) error:
Symbol not found: __ZN6ScCore8InitTerm6atExitEPFvvE
Referenced from: /Applications/Adobe/CS3/Adobe Bridge CS3/Bridge CS3.app/Contents/MacOS/Bridge CS3
Expected in: /Applications/Adobe/CS3/Adobe Bridge CS3/Bridge CS3.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/AdobeScCore.framework/Versions/A/AdobeScCore
Model: PowerMac7,3, BootROM 5.1.8f7, 2 processors, PowerPC G5 (3.0), 2.5 GHz, 4 GB
I've tried the "hold a key to reset preferences" trick and it still crashes right after that. Can anyone help ID what the problem is?
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J

If you mean hold 'Any key' then there is one of your problems. You should hold down the option key while restarting Bridge and when a menu with three options appears choose refresh preferences and try again.
BUT
first of all upgrade Bridge to version 2.1.1.9 (and PS to 10.0.1)
That probably should solve your problem :-)
If still no luck quit Bridge go to the user library preferences folder. Inhere find and delete the AdobeBridgeCS3 plist file and delete this to the trash. Restart (again with option key and refresh preferences) and try again

Why can't DW CS5 see jpgs, new files in website root folder in Bridge CS3?

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I'm new at this stuff and have combed the Help-Knowledge Bases-DW and Bridge and haven't found anything remotely helpful or even similar? .Must be something obvious everyone knows to do.

Problem went away this morning!
I tried this step again (a third time) after starting up my computer:
Still trying to get my composite in "B" recognized by LR, I first deleted the composite from "B" using explorer, then went into LR and moved the file from "A" (where LR recognized it), into "B".
This time it worked, the file moved successfully and appears normally in LR.
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