Bridge is frozen. Program opens, but it will not open up any folders or pics

Question

I'm not sure what has happened all of a sudden, but my Bridge seems to be locked up.
It will open normally, and I will see the normal selections, but when I go to start opening folders, it will give me the stopwatch symbol for about a 1/2 second, and then nothing….it will still navigate thru the drop down menus, and i can even change the view….But as far as opening up any folders or clicking on pics, nothing.
I installed the updates earlier this evening, same results.   Should I just re-install? 
Thanks for any help you can give!

Answer 1

and I welcome any other suggestions!
Sorry to hear it did not solve it.
First think about what caused the 'all of a sudden' problem. Since most of this is solved with reset preferences but not for you it might also be caused by something you have changed in workflow, install app's or plugin or admin privileges for the disk your on.
Maybe you also can give some more details about what system version you are on, what Bridge version you use and what you usual workflow is. (what files are you looking on, what disk are they on -internal, external, network etc).
Also give some details about the free space you have left on your HD with your system on. Less then 10 % is getting you sooner later then later in to trouble with memory and space consuming apps like Bridge.
And use Apple Disk Utility to check and repair your permissions on the start up disk, might also help.
If not you can choose to delete the cache file for Bridge manually.
You will loose all prior build previews and have to start over again for new previews but your files and settings stay the same.
But whatever you do, first rule is to Back Up your files (and as a sane person you already have done so before so that won't be much work...)
Quit Bridge, from user library caches folder find Adobe/BridgeCS5 (or your version). And inhere are two files, a plug in and a cache file (this file can grow to huge proportions btw). Drag both files outside the library, preferable to the trash but if you want so put them elsewhere outside the library). Then from the same library preference folder find the Bridge plist file (com.adobe.bridge4.plist) -Bridge 4 is CS5 version 3 CS4 etc-
and drag this also outside the library.
All those files will be replaced by fresh, empty and default ones after restarting Bridge.
For security also delete the last used workspace for Bridge (user library/Application Support/Adobe/BridgeCS5/Workspaces and from here delete the file named: '!!LastMenu.workspace'
Again restart Bridge holding down option key and choose reset preferences.
Now you ended up with a Bridge as per fresh install and you should be OK.