CS6 Bridge Will Not Launch

My problem is that Bridge won't open or give any errors. It just gets hung up in the background and never opens. Seems to have started happening when I upgraded to the latest 10.10.2.
CS6
Mac OS 10.10.2
Mac mini (Late 2012)
I've uninstalled and reinstalled CS6 many times without any luck.
Also, created new user with no luck.
Photoshop launches fine.
ACR will launch files that were specifically Exported by Bridge which were worked in ACR in the past.
Tried starting holding option to disengage prefs, didn't work.

Hi,
Is this happening with Mini bridge or bridge or with both ?
In either case, try this :
1. restart machine
2 launch bridge directly
If its launched then try to close and then launch PS CS 6 and then try to launch Bridge from there.
Hope it helps !! As we would need more details for this issue.
Thanks,
Baljeet

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