Bridge CS5 XMP/Camera Raw issues

I was using Bridge normally to browse photos / pdf's ect. Suddenly, almost „out of the blue” it stopped to store any settings and changes I made to photos.
For example: I open Bridge, double click on photo (RAW format), camera raw opens, and then I make some adjustments. Click „Done”. Camera raw closes. Normally preview of that photo was updated and settings stored in the XMP file. Now all this is just not working: I can make any adjustment but when I click „done” it closes the Camera raw without saving changes. Purging cache does not work. Open file directly from Photoshop does not work. I checked access permission to particular folder and photo and they are ok. Did somebody have same problem? Any help will be appreciated. Thank You.

Several thoughts. First check to see if the image has not changed to read only. Open Windows Explorer for this. Sometimes computer changes this without any input.
Have you changed to an external drive where permisson could be an issue?
Check the HD where cache is and make sure you have free space. Should have 20% free. So if you have a 500 gig drive you should have 100 gigs free.
If this all checks out then I would reset preferences by holding down Ctrl key and start Bridge. You should get a reset window with 3 options.

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Conclusion: Batch processing of files in Bridge CS5/Camera Raw 6.0 is limited by an unknown factor which I currently believe to be software design and/or software implementation. While performance on a dual core would be more or less CPU bound, and on a quad core would use the bulk of the available CPU power most of the time, on a hex core machine the CPU is woefully underutilized; i.e. I could be doing the same work in substantially less time.
Suggestion: At the very minimum, allow the option to have Bridge/Camera Raw process N (where we choose N, given that a dual socket motherboard will be able to have 24 cores in the very near future) files simultaneously, so we can tune our own systems for the disk IO vs CPU bottlenecks we each have. At best, automatically keep the CPU(s) running all cores at or near peak all the time, or until you run out of disk IO bandwidth.
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repeat
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Build: a new build computer (Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H rev1.0, BIOS F6) with an AMD Thuban 1090T 3.2Ghz hex core (running 5% above clock, FSB change to 210Mhz from the 200Mhz default, Prime95 stable for days), with 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and all Bridge, Camera Raw, and Photoshop cache and files running on an OCZ Vertex Turbo SSD. OS is Windows 7 64-bit. OS level page file is completely disabled.

Is it possible you're overwhelming the main memory bandwidth by the fact that you are working on (multiple) large images? Multi-core machines can only work on as much data as they can get from/to memory, and what you're doing is kind of flushing data right through the cache. I'm less familiar with the AMD architecture, but doesn't the concept of 6 cores on one chip mean that they ALL share one main memory buss? This could be a case where given the task, more cores is not better.
It may also very well be that the entirety of Photoshop, which is at its core a relatively old application (architecture-wise), is not programmed to use multi-threading as well as it might be. Getting multi-threading to work right in an application is no picnic. And don't forget, this software is crafted to build and work in two widely different environments (Mac and PC) and so may not be able to use all the fanciest features of any one of those two realms.
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Disk IO efficiency in Bridge CS5 and Camera Raw 6.0

After watching Microsoft Process Monitor (ex-sysinternals) while processing a large batch of DNG's that in Camera Raw were being converted to a different Process (2010 to 2003) and a different a different Camera Profile, I have the following questions:
Why read files in sequential chunks far smaller than we could? Why not 128KB or 64KB chunks for the DNG header read instead of 4KB? Why not at least 256KB chunks for the main DNG read?   Why not 32KB chunks for the Camera Profiles, if we're going to read them over and over at all?
Why read all the profiles for every single photo, when we can possibly use at most two (the original one, and the new one), and more often only one? More to the point, if we're working on a large batch of photos on a machine with 6GB of free RAM, I would suggest loading them into RAM and leave them there.
Why multiple Create/Close sets on Defaults\Preferences during large batch processing?
Why so many CreateFile...CloseFile sets for the same main DNG file; we're operating on the same file through this process. Why close it when we're just going to open it right up again?
Summary over one file's processing
00:49:58.72 CloseFile A
00:49:58.72 Mess with Defaults\Preferences.xmp
00:49:58.72 CreateFile B
...               ReadFile B in 4KB chucks out to just past Offset 167,936
00:49:58.72 WriteFile B - write 11,187 bytes at Offset 780
00:49:58.72 CloseFile B
...               Mess with some Adobe\CameraRaw\Database CreateFile, ReadFile, CloseFile stuff for very little time.
00:49:58.72 CreateFile B
00:49:58.72 ReadFile B in 64KB chunks out to just past Offset 19,165,184
     00:49:59.12 The last ReadFile; essentially, reading at ~45.84MiB/s for 0.4 seconds
00:49:59:12 Start reading all the CameraProfiles\Adobe Standard\Canon EOS 50D xxx.dcp in 4KB chunks for 55-110KB or so: the order is Adobe Standard, Camera Faithful, Camera Landscape, Camera Neutral, Camera Portrait, Camera Standard,
    00:49:59.13 The last ReadFile for the profiles
00:49:59.13 CreateFile B
00:49:59.13 ReadFile B in 4KB chunks twice, at Offset 0 and Offset 53,248
00:49:59.13 CloseFile B
...               Mess with some Adobe\CameraRaw\Database CreateFile, ReadFile, CloseFile stuff for very little time.
    00:49:59.13 Last CloseFile on the above
??? CPU use, I assume
00:49:59.78 CloseFile B
    ??? The previous operation on B appears to also b a CloseFile. I assume I'm failing to interpret Process Monitor; I must have missed an operation.
00:49:59.78 CreateFile, CloseFile on Defaults\Preferences.xmp - Read Attributes
00:49:59.78 CreateFile Cache\Index.dat
00:49:59.78 ReadFile Cache\Index.dat in 4KB chunks then write it in 4KB chunks, about 24KB worth
00:49:59.78 CloseFile Cache\Index.dat
??? CPU use, I assume
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00:50:01.40 WriteFile B in 256KB chunks
00:50:01.42 CloseFile B
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00:50:01.43 CreateFile C
repeat pattern
Total: 2.71 seconds.
The sum of the two long ??? CPU segments: 2.27 seconds
The time not part of the two long ??? CPU segments: 0.44 seconds, or about 20% of the total for that file.
Of that, changing the main DNG file read from 64KB chunks to 256KB chunks could have reduced that 20%, to about .35 seconds. On a batch of 1000 photos, that's a savings of almost 6 minutes. A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there, and pretty soon you're talking about real time.
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4KB: 48.10MB/s
64KB: 173.85MB/s -- much, much faster
256KB: 222.95MB/s -- still significantly faster than 64KB
While my SSD doesn't take up much more time doing the smaller reads, slower or more heavily used drives will make the lower efficiency more visible to the end user, particularly for batches.

I don't know the specifics, but keep in mind this software is built to work on multiple completely different operating systems. There might be some "minimum common denominator" stuff going on.
-Noel

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Adobe's software is a mess in terms of the fact that it's sprayed all over the place and may not survive an OS upgrade. Try reinstalling Photoshop CS5.

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Let's get some information first.
What is your version of Adobe Camera Raw, Bridge, and Photoshop?
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I have recently bought a Canon EOS6D and my raw photos will not open in my version of photoshop, which is cs5.1. I have looked at the camera types photoshop cs5.1 camera raw covers, and my camera isn't included. Is there anything I can do to open my raw images?! Or will I have to update my version of photoshop?

Support for the Canon EOS 6D first arrived in Camera Raw 7.3 - only Photoshop CS6+ is compatible with Raw 7.3
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html
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Upgrade to CS6, or
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/311515
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I use a Nikon D700 and CS3 Bridge on a MAC OSX 10.4.11, and when browsing NEF images in Bridge there is an action performed on the image whenever I click on it. I use the settings where a filmstrip is along the bottom and upon selection a larger image appears above. Initially the image appears as I recall exposing it and looks balanced with good saturation, but after selection the image brightens and loses saturation after a few moments. When I open the image in Camera Raw I find that the Brightness is set at +50 and the contrast is set at +25, and the Blacks slider is set at 5. When I reset those parameters to zero I do not recover the look of the image as it was before selection in the bridge window. In order to do that I have to raise the saturation, decrease the brightness and do a fair amount of work to get back to the way the image appeared in Bridge prior to selection. Can anyone tell me what is happening to the image in bridge and how to keep the image from changing after I select it, or at least how to find the settings that have been evidently applied to the image? If I right click on the thumbnail first, I find that the image will open in camera raw without any changes being made in Bridge, so I was able to make jpegs that show the difference between the two images. The first image is as it appears before selcting the thumbnail, and the second is the image in camera raw. If I were to have selected the image normally with a left click in Bridge, the photo as you see it in camera raw would have appeared in bridge and not been recoverable to its earlier state. Can someone help me undertand what is happening here? How can I find out what Bridge or Camera Raw is doing to the images and retain the appearance as it first appears in Bridge? Thank you for your help.

This is a common question.
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I have Photoshop Elements 8 installed with Camera Raw 5.5 on a Windows 7 64-bit platform. I recently purchased Photoshop CS 5 which came with Camera Raw 6.2. I think both products work well independently, with the exception noted at the end of this posting. Where I'm encountering an issue is when I use Adobe Bridge to access an image file for processing which invokes Camera Raw 6.2. -- the changes made to the file show up in Adobe Bridge, but are not observable when the same file is viewed in the Photoshop Elements Organizer. When I look at the file properties I can see that Camera Raw 6.2 updated the file and the updated date does appear in the file properties accessible through PS Elements Organizer. However, the items listed in the Camera Raw metadata are different in the two products (PS vs PSE). Since the sidecar .xmp files are a form of XML, I'm wondering if Camera Raw 6.2 is writing data in a structure that is not supported by Camera Raw 5.5? I've tried to update PSE Camera Raw to version 6.2 following the instruction that appear on line, but it does not seem to install. Durring installation there are no error messages, but after the "installation" PSE Camera Raw still shows version 5.5. I noticed this first when editing a large number of "legacy" .jpg files, but I also have concern when editing Nikon .nef files.
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On my Windows 7 64 bit system the original version of Camera Raw.8bi was found in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements8\File Formats\ and had a size of 11,781 Kb shown in Windows Explorer. The file properties listed the size as (12,063,088 bytes). The digital signature was signed Thursday, September 03, 2009 3:34:37 PM. To the best of my knowledge this is the version that shipped on the PSE 8 disk which I installed in December 2009.
There is another copy of Camera Raw.8bi found in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS5\File Formats\ and had a size of 11,856 Kb shown in Windows Explorer. The file properties list the size as (12,140,496 bytes). The digital signature was signed Friday, August 20, 2010 3:30:03 AM. This date post dates the installation of Photoshop CS 5 on my system so it must have happened through some (automatic?) update.
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When I copy the down loaded file into the Elements8\File Formats\ sub folder PSE still indicates that ACR is version 5.5
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I stopped short of doing an image restore on that machine, thinking my installation of Photoshop must have been corrupted when I removed Elements and Preimere Elements, but no...I'm now on an IBM W701 with the same software and I have the same probem.
If someone from Adobe would like me to send them a file from the T4i, I will. If I shoot in jpeg, there are no issues. But I do not shoot in jpeg. I only did it to see if perhaps it were the SD card.
Any help would be appreciated.

With Photoshop CS5 (I think that's what you said) you no longer have access to the latest updates for Camera Raw.
Photoshop CS5 can only take up to Camera Raw 6.7 (latest version is 7.1, which goes with Photoshop CS6 only).
You'll either need to upgrade to Photoshop CS6 or download the free DNG converter and go through the extra step of converting your T4i images to DNG before opening them in Camera Raw 6.7.
You can see what versions of Camera Raw support what cameras here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html
And you can see what versions of Camera Raw go with what versions of Photoshop here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html
-Noel

Bridge CS5 is Corrupting Raw and JPG Files Right Before My Eyes

I am using Bridge CS5 on a Mac to work on Raw files from a Canon camera. The files all looked good in the cameras review, and looked good when downloaded to the computer then the files started to corrupt and become unusable one at a time as I watched. They became all white or lines of color. Not all of them corrupted yhough (about 225 of 1100 did though). I eventually worked the uncorrupted files and even turned them into JPGs and sent them out. The next day I pull up the pics in bridge to see if they are still bad. All of a sudden files I opened and worked on yesterday started to corrupt one after another. Both the JPG and Raw files are corrupt and unusable even though they worked yesterday. It only happens when in Bridge. What is going on? This is riduculous.
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Thanks for responding. What happens is I highlight a large group of files then click on open with Bridge or in Bridge I go to the subdirectory with the files. All the files are in a filmstrip on the left side of the screen. All of a sudden the file that I am viewing becomes corrupt (that is it turns into multiple horizontal lines of colors. Then I can watch as it happens to one file after another. I would compare it to when you quickly view film strips that were just uploaded and the initial thumbnail is blurry and then slowly all the thumbnails get clear as they process. But here they appear to already be fine thumbnails but then turn into the files with horizontal lines or sometimes just 30% or so so of the pic is visible and the rest is white or gray. When I try to open it the file cannot be opened because it is corrupt. It happens to both the RAW and the JPG file (I shoot in Raw+JPG). The first day it happened to about 200 of the 1200 files. So I was able to process the 1000 good ones in Raw convertor and create JPGs with no trouble. The next day I open all the files in Bridge again to see if the bad ones are good now and files I had already opened and were perfectly fine in RAW converter start to corrupt one after another like the ones did the day before. So I doubt it is the card or hardware it only happens in Bridge. Bridge must have the capability to do something to the files. It isnt making XMF files so thats not it, it is actually corrupting the RAW and JPG files. Have you ever heard of that. I found another forum with what sounded like the same issue to someone who had a Canon: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/645620
But this happened to Windows and I use MAC.....but I do use a 7D like them. I still wonder if Bridge just doesnt work well with Canon 7Ds or something like that. The above thread never found a solution. Maybe someone from Adobe has heard of this from others and discovered a reason or solution. Until then I cant trust Adobe products at all....which really sucks after how much it cost me, but whole shoots lost is worse, I guess.

Unable to open Raw files from Canon 6D in CS5 [was:camera raw]

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error: camera raw plugin did not recognize format of one or more of files.

from my new eos d.
Which Canon camera exactly? There is no EOS D.
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http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/camera-raw-compatible-applications.html

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Hello, I have Bridge CS3 that came with Adobe Web Standard that I bought when I have doing web design. I also have Photoshop CS that I use for my camera digital editing. At a camera club today they were using Bridge and Photoshop CS5 to show what it can do. The man completing the demo said that Camera Raw was inbuilt into Bridge and that I should have it. I've been using Adobe DNG convertor for my RAW editing as I didn't know nothing about Camera Raw but seeing it in action and how much better it is over the DNG I want to use that instead.
I've searched high and low for Camera Raw on my PC but I cannot find it. I've tried downloading it from here but it says No and to quit.
My RAW files have the .DNG extension if that makes a difference.
So, am I missing Camera Raw and if so, how can I get it :?:
Thanks

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http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=39&platform=Windows
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Bridge CS4 HATES Camera Raw 5.2, refuses to play

I've been dealing with this issue for a week now with no success.
Bridge will not open raw files in Camera Raw. period. Bridge will show raw image thumbnails, but I keep getting that annoying "Camera raw editing is not enabled" dialog box when I try and open them. I get the dialog when I try and access the preferences through Bridge as well.
I've tried everything I can think of:
- Opening PS CS4 ACR first, then clicking the Bridge button to launch Bridge. I've also tried opening an image and editing it first in PS.
= Made sure that ACR was installed in the correct location. It is, because PS ACR works, and Bridge obviously recognizes the plug-in.
- Tried raw files from different cameras.
Completely installed both Photoshcp and Bridge AND erased my harddrive. I am and was using OSX 10.5.5
- Created another user. Interestingly (I think), PShop and Bridge didn't work at all with Camera Raw. The Camera Raw plug-in was installed in the right place, but the permissions were locked for the file for this user. I tried to change them in the GET INFO box, but it didn't help. I had to download the ACR fresh from Adobe and erase the other one to work with this new user account. And no, after doing that, Bridge still would not open ACR files. Going back to my real user account, I had to erase the ACR file and do the same thing, because now the permissions for THIS user were locked.
- So, I tried to repair permissions on the entire system next. It fixed a couple things that had to do with Quicktime.
Now I'm back to square one. It seems like this might be a unique problem to me, but I have seen other forums that include people on both PC and Mac with this same problem. Their fixes do nothing for me though.
Are there any genius relationship experts that can get Bridge and ACR to be friends again?!
Thanks

Philip,
 
 It's perfectly OK to have one copy of ACR installed in the correct folder for each different version of Photoshop you have installed.
 
 I have every version of Photoshop from 7.0.1 through 11 ("CS4") happily coexisting on my machine, and ACR 2.4, 3.7, 4.6 and 5.2 in its corresponding folder.
 
 


However

, and that's a big
however, the only two instances of
Camera Raw.plugin shown in your EasyFind are
definitely in the wrong place!
 
 According to the path shown in the
Where column, you have one loose on your Desktop and another one in a wrong Camera Raw folder, where it shouldn't be.
 
 This is what a similar EasyFind search yields on my machine:
 
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