Bridge To Nowhere - Try Xnview

Constant freeze-ups, lock-ups-- and not just of Adobe Bridge either, the darned thing locks up my entire PC about every fourth or fifth time I switch previews of short WMV video clips, or even simply switch the application focus: from Bridge to the Desktop (or whatever, even Windows Task Manager), then back to Bridge.
System config:
S/W: CS3, Bridge V. 2.1.1.9
H/W: HARDWARE: WindowsXP SP2, Intel Core duo Quad 2 6600 CPU 2.4GHz 3.5Gb RAM, nVidia Quadro FX 3450/4000 video card, Creative SB X-Fi sound card
Well, no wonder it locks everything up. Windows Task Manager/Performance Panel shows that merely switching the application focus from the Desktop back and forth to Bridge briefly spikes my CPU to 100% usage each time I try to invoke Bridge! That's madness. And arrogant programming.
The root of the problem seems to be in the PREVIEW panel. Disabling Preview restores good performance. The only problem with that is: What's the point of having Bridge for videos if you can't use it to preview your clips? A work-around is to set the default video viewing application to Windows Media Player or Quick Time or whatever, disable Bridge's native Preview panel, then double-click on a thumbnail and "preview" it in the default video viewer. Seems to work OK with Windows Media Player. But what's the point?
THERE IS BETTER SOFTWARE OUT THERE--TESTED, STABLE, RELIABLE, LIGHTWEIGHT, HONEST, AND BEST OF ALL, COMPLETELY FREEWARE. I've used it for five years without any problems, any advertising or any kind of hassle at all. It's called XnView, at XnView-dot-calm. It will blow you away as a slide sorter, batch renamer, batch photo editor and general dog's body of an images manager. Try it, you'll like it... a whole lot better than one more Adobe scam: a lame span that won't scan.
Josh

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I suspect something is making it a mad skunk, and finding out what is going can get you back on track. You will also need to check with the Bridge forum and talk with experienced forum members who can assist you far better. Here's the link.
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I have the Photoshop CC/Lightroom CC package. In Creative Cloud It says Install beside Bridge, instead of Try Me. Can I use it?

The question above (and below) asks it all I think.:
I have the Photoshop CC/Lightroom CC package.
In Creative Cloud It says Install beside Bridge, instead of Try Me. May I use it?

Of course you should use it.
Bridge is an integral part of Photoshop, even though it now acts like a separate application. In its first iterations, Bridge was called simply The Photoshop File Browser. That is all it is, a file browser that shows you what files you have, and which hands your files to the appropriate application, whether that be Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom, Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign or even MS Word.
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I still advocate Repairing Permissions (with Apple's Disk Utility) before AND after any system update or upgrade, as well as before AND after installing any software that requires an installer that asks for your password.
I have seen software installations go sour because the installer did not find everything as and where it should be. I have also seen software installations go bad because the installer did not clean up after itself properly and did not leave everything as and where it should be. This is just my own personal opinion and practice based on my own observations.
Others may disagree and that's OK. I can only base my routines and my advice to others on my own experience and conclusion. I don't pretend to know why others believe otherwise. Note that this suggestion begins with "I still advocate…", not "Apple recommends…".
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Open Adobe Photoshop first. Open a Camera Raw file in Photoshop.
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Hello Curt Y, Everything is checked in the "Startup Scripts," including Bridge (twice) and Photoshop (twice). Not sure why duplicate entries but there are.
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Hello there,
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> I don't really understand this part you wrote.
"What setting do you generally have for Bridge preview, always high Quality
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In Bridge Path Bar top right there are two small checker board icons. The
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once and after this you can browse freely through all the files.
Having set to also build monitor sized previews in the prefs means you also
have to wait a little longer once when the folder builds cache but this is
in the same go after file ingestion and after this you can use the space bar
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Cinema display using mostly files from a EOS 1Ds3, big files, big screen
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Output Module (Bridge CC) not working on Mac

As suggested here
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See on the link below.
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Hi All:
I had similar problems plus constant crashes that made Bridge unusable.
It drove me to try alternatives to bridge and to try Lightroom. I like
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to be reluctant switch. But here is the rub, now Bridge is working
perfectly! What I think fixed Bridge is running a disk/registry cleaner
called Ccleaner multiple times. I ran it almost every day for a week. It
found lots of stuff in my registry that it didnt like but as time went by
it found less and less. It also let me turn on or off services that run at
startup. I shut off anything that I could see that I didnt need, like
Adobe downloader; I dont need automatic downloading, as I can do it
myself. The result is at some point Bridge started to work again. It has
stayed working for more than 2 weeks now without one crash. I dont know
what was fixed that did the trick but so far Im happy. Ccleaner is a
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Why I can't do a search in my external hard disk using Adobe Bridge CS6?

When I open Adobe Bridge CS6 and try to do a search within my external hard disk, it will give results from my internal hardisk only?! this is the 1st time I encounterd such strange issue. Because of this I do my search with windows and then browse each result with Bridge! which really annoying.

I solved the problem by going to the search field and clicking on the search icon where it will give a drop list of 3 options, then selecting Bridge Search: Current Folder and that solved my problem. thanks for everyone help
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:45:55 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why I can't do a search in my external hard disk using Adobe Bridge CS6?
    Re: Why I can't do a search in my external hard disk using Adobe Bridge CS6?
    created by Curt Y in Bridge General Discussion - View the full discussion
You can do a search of an external drive if the OS permissions are OK. Bridge will not search across different drives however.
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Bridge + Photoshop buggy

1.Bridge is slow, it oftens displays a cache error problem on start up even when I have emptied cache.
2.Camera RAW will not display the correct tool eg Adjustment Brush [k] shows the loading circle unless click return.
I often have many hundreds of files which I know could be the cause but it is driving me nuts and slowing down production.
3.I also CANNOT hide PS CC while it is batch processing! I have tried both short cuts and using the dock icon method...
Never had these issues until the last 6 moths or so...
Any ideas?

I have not found an answer yet. Have you questioned Dr. Brown about it?
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Check the boxes, click OK and it should help.
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http://forums.adobe.com/community/bridge
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I'm going to try and make this as clear as possible because I'm not as smart as many of you so please bear with me.
I'm working with Adobe Bridge CS6 5.0.2.4 on my Mac OS X 10.9.2. A couple days ago when I opened it, the following message popped up.
I didn't really know what the central cache was but I assumed it was causing a problem (per the pop up message) so I did what it said and I cleared the central cache. I have a lot of RAW files on my computer so I figured that could have been the problem. I did this for all of the folders that I had been working in over the past several days.
After I did this, the preview for my images was gone. Now I have this. I realize that it does say "Building criteria..." but it just sits there and nothing happens for hours.
I searched through other forums and I tried some different things.
I tried this (also I tried it without the 100% previews):
I tried this (also tried this without the 100% previews):
(I saw that I was absolutely NOT supposed to press the "Purge Cache" button through preferences because it messes up your computer something fierce)
I also tried building and exporting the cache:
But I let it sit all night and nothing happened. It stayed at this screen:
I even tried downloading the Adobe Cleaner Tool (Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6) but all that did was remove Photoshop and Bridge from my Mac.
So I reinstalled the CS6 Creative Suite and I'm still having the exact same problems. I've updated everything (Camera Raw is version 8.4.0.199), I've tried restarting my computer, turning it off and waiting a couple hours and turning it back on, and I'm at a loss. It also keeps crashing.
I'm a photographer and I have several projects I need to continue working on so if any of you could help a sister out, I'd appreciate it.

I even tried downloading the Adobe Cleaner Tool
It seems to me the central cache file is corrupted or some or al your folder cache files that have exported or both.
Since you can't use it I would try to do a manual deleting (unfortunately even the CC clean tool does not remove the central cache file automatically.
First quit Bridge.
You have 2 libraries on your system, 1 for the system itself (visible when you click the start up disk) and 1 for the user account that unfortunately is hidden by default per OSX 10.7). You can google for hidden library in OSX for a more permanent solution but for now just go to Finder and choose menu Go to reveal the drop down menu. With menu in view press option key and then Library will appear in the list, select it and choose column mode for view.
in this user library follow the path: Caches/Adobe/Bridge CS6. Inhere are 2 files called 'Adobe Bridge Plug-in Cache' and a folder called 'Cache'. Delete both folders outside the library folder (if needed spare them a little time but you can also place them in the trash for now).
In the same library is a folder called preferences. Inhere is a file called: 'com.adobe.bridge5.plist' for Bridge version 5 that comes with CS6. Also delete this file.
Then restart Bridge to recreate all delete files as new and empty ones with factory settings and try if it works now.
If the cache files in the folders are problematic test one folder, use menu view / show hidden files and find and delete two files called Bridge.Cache and Bridge.CacheT and try again. Could you report back?

Bridge CS6, CC refuses to work

So here's my delimma; i'm wanting to process my JPGs in Raw from Bridge, but I can't get bridge to work.
I had CS5, CS6 and uninstalled both, then installed CC hoping that it would fix the Bridge problem but it didn't. Every time I open it I get 'opration can not be completed' then it stalls at 'building critera' with the wheel spinning in the lower left corner. I checked console to see if there was a message coming up, and there is something going on with the audio drivers. At first it was one particular HAS pulgin (Jack Router) that was casuing it to screw up, so I deleted it.
No avail.
Basically I get the error message every time I open Bridge, then I try and click something and it freezes up. I've held down 'option' on startup and reset EVERYTHING. I've run Disk utility and FSCKd the disk to make sure it was clean.
Mac OSX 10.8.4
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Over 250gb left on my HD
I'll attach the screenshots of the console messages. But here's the checklist of what DOES NOT work:
Reset Bridge
Restart Computer
FSCK (repairing permissions the hardcore way)
Uninstalling CS5 and 6
Running under the Root account (same error message)

Uninstalling CS5 and 6 will not have any effect, except it might foul up file associations. If you are going to not reinstall CS5 and CS6 I would uninstall CC also, run Adobe Script Cleaner then reinstall CC. If you want CS5 and CS6 best to install in order, CS5, CS6, CC. Remember, if you stop subscription to CC you have nothing.
You may also want to try this. It is for CS6 but change to CC and Bridge 6
~library/caches/Adobe/Bridge CS6 and inhere should be 2 files:
Adobe Bridge Plug-in Cache
and the folder called Cache. Inhere should be 4 folders called '254', '1024', 'data' and 'full'
All those folders carry the content of the respective quality of the thumbs and preview as well as 100 % cache and Bridge database.
Any way, Since you have not used Bridge you have no relevant amount of cache and I would suggest you quit both PS and Bridge and manual delete both the items (plug in and folder called cache at the end of the Bridge CS6 path mentioned above.
(both files will refresh itself after a restart of Bridge).
To be on the save side also visit in same user library the folder Preferences and look for the file called "com.adobe.bridge5.plist" (yes it is Bridge 5 that comes with CS6, all Adobe apps have their own version number and they are presented in the same Suite version. CS6 has PS version 13 and Bridge version 5 )
also drag this file to the trash.
Then hold down option key (alt) while starting Bridge and this should give you the option to reset the preferences as mentioned earlier in this thread.
Choose reset prefs and try again.

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