Bridge CS5 Not Working

I currently have PS CS5 installed on my Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Snow Leopard. PS5 works fine but when I try to use bridge, bridge opens but that's it. If I try to do anything I get the spinning beach ball and eventually have to force quit.
I have done all I can outside of bridge ... repaired permissions, uninstalled and reinstalled the software. However, i can't even open up preferences for bridge as it gives me the spinning ball.
I am new to the mac (3 months), so I need some handholding on what to do.
Thanks for your help.

Strange this did not solve it, as said 95 % chance but I really did expect it to work for you. Now I'm running a bit out of options I'm afraid.
Is it possible you have CS4 running in the background? You can only run one version of Bridge at a time.
Curt, as you can only run 1 Bridge version of the time you can have all other CS Suite applications active at the same time regardless their version (at least that is on a Mac but I have no reason to believe it should not be the same on Windows). I can have PSCS4 and PSCS5 both open and active but the only limitation is Bridge. Using the open command Bridge opens the file in the corresponding CS version PS (Bridge CS5 opens in PSCS5 by default). If you choose the open with command you can without problems choose to open a file in PSCS 4 and work on it. Save and closing it will update the preview in Bridge CS5
DJ,
You might give it one more try with the clean tool from Adobe, see also this link from Adobe Support:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
Download the clean tool for Mac and carefully read the Read me files that come with it.
Be sure to update all custom tools, brushes actions (but since your a bit fresh on the Mac you probably won't have much customized?)
Use the uninstaller that comes with the Adobe Application (you will find the uninstaller for CS5 in the Adobe Photoshop CS5 folder in your default application folder (should be on root level, not in your user account).
First start PS and in the help menu choose to deactivate the software. Quit PS and start the uninstaller for CS5.
Be sure to also check the option to deactivate permanently, this erases your serial number from your system but surely you'l have that number stored on a saved place, you will need it again after reinstall
Use the clean tool and also check for the files from the prior mail, not all cache files will be deleted by the clean tool and you might want to trash them manually.
Install again with serial number and sign in on your Adobe ID and try again.

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Le 2014-07-17 à 1:13 PM, ericboerner a écrit :
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