CS6 Bridge caching bug

In this thread we discussed a problem with CS6 Bridge constantly re-caching layered Tif files:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4473274#4473274
Since then a new related problem has been reported and discussed on other forums.
Sometimes Photoshop refuses to save a file, claiming the file is already open or in use by another program, even though no other programs are running.
Turns out that problem is caused by Bridge caching. If you have Tif support disabled in Camera Raw prefs, the save problem does not occur. If you go to Bridge and navigate to a different folder, the save does not occur or goes away.
I've tried to report this as a bug in the photoshop.com site, but that bug reporting process is confusing and I have no confidence is works. Anybody know a better way to report bugs?

Hab das mal auch versucht bei CS6 Bridge/Camera RAW: Bug with exposure sync zu melden...

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CS6 Bridge Cache Slow to Build

I have had a lot of problems with Bridge CS6 thumbnail generation from day one. THe latest updates have not changed anything.
I use embedded thumbnails, do not generate 100% previews, nor have box checked to keep them.
In building thumbnails the first time, expecially for video files, takes a long time. It seems to hang at each file and you can not do anything with Bridge as it is frozen until it completes the thumbnail action. If I can catch it between thumbnails and get it to respond, I click on Tools/purge cache for XXX folder, and then the rebuild goes much faster, but still slower than CS5. I have been mostly using CS5 Bridge for this reason.
I would like to make a frontal attact on the Bridge developers, but would like to poll other users and see if they have the same, or similar, problems I have described above.
Win7 i7 processor 8gigs of ram 50 gig partiton with 47 gig free space for cache drive.
Comments please.

Comments please.
I don't recognize this behavior, don't have large film files but in general a large file needs more time to cache. But if you have embedded thumbnails only selected it looks to me the problems seem to be addressed to your cache partition. (is it an internal or external disk??)
Personally I don't like the use of a different location for my cache other then the disk where my application is on. However Bridge CS6 must be able to do this. The main difference between Bridge CS5 and CS6 is transition from 32 bit to 64 bit and for cache they again switched to an other format (from MySQL to SQLite). If you have old cache files from CS5 written to folders this might also be slowing you down because it tries to read the files (but that is a guess from my side)
Check your content window with 'show hidden files' to search for these files.
Starting with a fresh cache file after having deleted all manually might also come to rescue.

Bridge cache managment & export to folders?

What is the function and advantage of "auto exporting cache to folders" in Bridge?
Round 2 testing, I changed the CS6 Bridge cache location to be the same location I was using for CS5, on a secondary drive.
Small mistake, because CS6 proceeded to delete the entire existing cache and start building a new one. However, Bridge CS5 seems to coexist OK sharing the same cache with CS6. They are both re-building the cache as I visit individual folders. (30,000 files in 800 folders gonna take a while).
Long ago under CS3 I adopted the strategy of setting Bridge to "Auto export cache to folders." That worked well, because if you purged the master cache, Bridge would very quickly rebuild it from the folder cache files each time you re-visited a folder. The thumbs would come up very quickly if a folder cache existed, much slower if no folder cache existed.
Under CS5, and now CS6, that is no longer true. If you visit a folder after the cache has been purged, a slow process to generate thumbnails occurs. It appears that the individual folder cache is not being used for anything. The time to re-build the cache is about the same, regardless of whether folder cache files exist or not.
Purging or deleting the Bridge cache was often necessary under CS3 because the cache often became corrupted. CS5 was more stable, but still not immune from cache corruption. Maybe CS6 will be even more stable, but I'm betting cache purges will still be sometimes necessary. Is there any way to make the rebuild faster? Or more generally, what's the best strategy for Bridge cache management?
(And no, I don't have "keep 100% previews in cache" selected.)

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Bridge CS6 open file bug with Hasselblad RAW file

There is a bug in Bridge CS6 (or RAW editor?) with (some) Hasselblad RAW files. I have a set of FFF files that I can use and open without problems in Bridge CS6 (5.0.0.399 x64). But one file of them does not show a preview icon and when I try to open it in PS6 or RAW editor, I get an errormessage "unexpected end of file...". When I open the same file in Hasselblad "Phocus" software there is no problem. I can see the preview thumb and I can play around with the file and even export to TIF or DNG without any trouble. I can even open the exported DNG in PS or Bridge/RAW editor then.
Well, you might say I should not care for a single file but it leaves a bad taste, when the Hasselblad software can handle the file without problems...
If some developer want to take a look at this I could provide original files.

Curt Y wrote:
Also, be sure to use a card reader for file transfer as a camera transfer can introduce errors.
I work with a Hasselblad medium format camera. I do not have a CF card in use. And I can tell that this worked absolutely flawless for many years. I NEVER had corrupted files caused by transfer. Many photographers using pro medium format cameras work the same way (Phase One, Leaf, etc.). They do not use CF cards but firewire cable. the problem arised when I started using the CS6 Bridge software. And it turned out that I get more and more corrupted files which appeared to be fine before. So from one shooting i.e. 1 file of 100 was corrupted first. Since I started using Bridge and changed RAW settings and worked with the same files after some days I have 5 corrupted files of 100 now. And NO it is not my system. It works fine with other camera RAWs where I have absolutely no problems. It is only the Hasselblad files. Though I still can open the Hasselblad RAW files with the Hasselblad software. The problems are only with the Bridge (respectively the raw editor) in combination with the Hasselblad files.
To me it looks like CS is corrupting the files since they worked fine at first - even in CS and after some days playing around in CS the appear to be corrupted. Funny that I can open the same files without problems using a different software - isn't it? ;-)
thanks for the link I will try it.... :-)

Cannot open CS6 Bridge. Always the same ERROR: Bridge has a problem and cannot read the cache

Cannot open CS6 Bridge. Always the same ERROR: Bridge has a problem and cannot read the cache

Try this. This is for CS6 but substitue 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).
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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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BRIDGE CS6 - Move CACHE without rebuilding/indexing

Hi,
been trying to find answers for this in the forum, but could not, so here we go.
I have setup a SSD RAID0 system to use as dedicated CACHE drive.
I have A LOT of files (and I mean A LOT!!) on my computer as I am working a lot with timelapse-photography.
For after effects / premiere, I have moved the cache files from the old location to a new location on the new speed-devil-SSD-Cache system, without problems.
However, when I try to move the Bridge cache folder, and then specify that new location in Bridge, it seem like Bridge is NOT picking up the files which is allready stored on the new location.
Actually Bridge starts to rebuild the cache and read all files again. This is VERY time-consuming, due to my very large number of files on my system.
Now If could leave Bridge rebuilding over night, I could probably survive. The problem is that Bridge does not start to fetch thumbs and rebuild until I enter that specific folder again with Bridge.
So my question is; How can I make Bridge believe the new cache location is still the old one, so that I don't have to rebuild all my cache files again?
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Thanks guys!!
The problem is, the apporach you are suggesting, will make Bridge index/cache ALL of my files, and although I have A LOT of files that are indexed, I have equally many or maybe more, that are not, and need not to be indexed..
That is why I would like to MOVE the and keep the existing library so that I don't cache files I do not need to be cached...
I guess I will just have to bite the bitter apple and delete the old cache, sit and wait for each folder I access, one by one...
This is something that needs to be adressed by Adobe...

Feature Request (again); Adobe Bridge Cache Manager

In Adobe Bridge, the Cache is still a problem and a huge memory hog. I asked for a good Cache Manager over 3 years ago when it was needed CS4.
Now in CS6, I am disappointed that the cache system in Bridge has not changed. Why do you have a section in the Adobe Forums that asks for 'Feature Request' and then ignore them?
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2652688#2652688
"I would personally like a tool within Bridge that allows me to manage and control the Cache in a more personal and effective way. I would like a toggle that would keep '100% previews' in one folder for a selected period of time (1 day to 1 month) before the folder's cache is automatically purged. And another toggle that would give me the option to keep a selected folder's cache permanently intact (such as an Important Portfolio Folder or an Edited Images Folder).
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gumbogood wrote:
A Cache Manager tool that lets me either schedule a cache cleaning on a folder, or keep it permanent, would be a huge help. And I don't think that it is unreasonable for me to ask this of Adobe.
If you submit a feedback poll where Yammer pointed you, and it gets a couple of hundred (thousand?) users agree you might get Adobe's attention.
I agree with Yammer that Bridge is a low priority project with Adobe. Think their target audience is the casual user with a few hundred photos added each year. Your use pattern is more specialized and you either have to adapt with scripts or move to another product IMO.
The size of cache takes a lot of people by surprise. It can grow humongous if you use HQ thumbs and save 100% previews. One can dump the cache in preferences, but many are reluctant to to this as they think it will delete all their keywords and edits. In addition, to do a search you have to re-index all your files, which can take a long time.
If you have "export cache to folders" checked, dumping the cache in preferences only dumps the central cache. To dump the folder cache you have to visit each folder and click on Tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder. Again, most people do not recognize this. This technique purges both the central and folder cache for this folder only.
It the 100% previews are the problem for you it would seem like a simple task for the script people to write one that would delete it after xx days as the 100% previews are held in a specific folder.
Bridge is not a good digital asset manager. You are probably in that arena dealing with several hundred thousand images. Omke uses a DAM as it does some functions better than Bridge, but Bridge is still his main program. Can't remember the name, but if you read these posts you might have seen it.

CS6 Bridge Under Windows 8 Slow Response

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Curt Y wrote:
I discussed this "solution" with Adobe back in July. Here is their response.
"There really should be no reason that running in Vista compatability mode would change the behavior of the application. Vista and 7 are so similar at the fundamental level that there shouldn't be any advantage.   Really, this is likely pointing to a lack of OS updates being installed, or installed improperly. One person mentioned that a new user account fixed things. I have a feeling that would true of more folks who are willing to try it. I'll run this by my collegues though."
But if it works it is better than the alternative.    curt
Surprisingly the bit about trying it under a different or new user actually works here. All the aggruvating 5 to 10 second long freezes disappear when used under a fresh account.
Ok, so how can that be parlayed into being able to use Bridge CS6 under my own account?
Does the fact that it works as expected under a new fresh account point to something particular that needs changing or adjustment under my regular account?
The Adobe staff person seems to think it is most likely a problem of (lack of) updates or incorrectly installed updates, but that would not have any bearing if changing to a new account fixes the problem would it?
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I generally am using Bridge-CC so I quit that and tested my Bridge-CS6 and I had no issue.
Some things to try:
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Can I put the Bridge Cache on the external hard drive for images being located there?

Hi,
I'm on a MacBook Pro retina.
While I have a 500 Gb hard drive, I notice that the Bridge CS 6 cache is getting larger quickly (looking forward to 1 Terabyte SSDs).
I have most of my images on external hard drives, but Bridge CS6's cache seems to be on my computer.
Can I store the Bridge cache locally?
So, if I have 1000 images on hard drive A, the cache for them would be on hard drive A.
And for 100 TIFFS on hard drive B, the cache would be on hard drive B.
And for the 100 most recent TIFFs I keep on my computer's hard drive, the Bridge cache would be on my computer.
It this what checking the box next to "Automatically Export Caches To Folders When Possible" does or am I misunderstanding this - and this option only puts COPY of the cache files on the external hard drive, but the Bridge cache file on my computer still contains all the images, not matter on which hard drive they'd be?

Pacific 29 wrote:
"Automatically Export Caches To Folders When Possible" puts COPY of the cache files on the external hard drive, but the Bridge cache file on my computer still contains all the images, not matter on which hard drive they'd be?
That is correct as stated above. In efffect you will now have 2 cache the central cache and the folder cache. Purge only affects the central cache. To purge the folder cache you have to click Tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder.
You can locate your central cache anywhere you want in edit/preferences/cache. You will want to purge the cache before doing this and then change location. THe entire cache will have to be rebuilt.

The search function in CS6 bridge is no longer working

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Otherwise, make sure you are indexing all files.
Someone else had a similar problem recently, and fixed the problem by relocating the Bridge cache location - initiating a complete rebuild of the index and cache. Sledgehammer to crack a nut, but very easy to do.

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Ed,
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