Mini bridge in cs4 &win7

we have cs4 which displayed minibridge
whilst we were using xp at the same time a seperate storeage device could be down loaded a file at a time these files were in nef format. the files came up as thumdnails
then i changed to windows 7 .64bit, i have now lost minibridge and allso the ability to down load from the external drive to a thumb nail formatt.what is even more confusing is if i put the card from the camera directly into the computer the thumd nail works but minibridge still does not show

Do you mean CS5? Beleive mini bridge was not in CS4.
There are a number of posts in the Photoshop forum on mini bridge. Might do a quick search and see it you can answer some of your question and the refine your question.
If you changed OS you may have to purge cache and let it rebuild.

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Mini Bridge using copy and paste

I currently have CS5 extended installed on a desktop (xp 32 bit) and a laptop (Win7 64 bit) all files are up to date. When I start Photoshop create a new file, start mini bridge to select the file I want to copy and paste into my new file. I select the file,it opens in Photoshop I press these key strokes (control-A; control-C), move to the file to be copied to and press control-V. The file may or may not be copied. Even pressing control-V several times. You can press edit; paste and still nothing happens. But press edit; paste special; the file will be copied into the file. If the file is copied on the first try go back and select a different file and repeat the process. To get the file pasted into the document I; created a new layer; control-V; file is copied to a layer. If I create a new layer then turn off this layer press: control-V the file can also be copied to a layer. All of the above is when I start mini bridge to navigate to the files.
Now close Photoshop and Bridge. Restart Photoshop start Big Bridge (not mini bridge)! Create a new file; use Big Bridge to navigate to the file you want to copy into the new document, files opens into Photoshop enter the keyboard short cut or tool bar to select the file, copy the file. Now switch to the file to be pasted into press;control-V or select; file; paste; now everything's works. Try this process with different files to be pasted into the new document and it works flawless every time.
The above problem is present on both computers. My question is has anyone seen this or am I the only one? I stumbled on this a couple of days ago, sure I can work around this using Big Bridge.
Thanks in advance for your replys.

It seems as though the window is losing focus. If after you Ctrl+C, switch over to the other document and then press the enter key twice or switch tools or click on the document window (with the move tool), then it seems to paste.

Mini bridge doesn't appear in photoshop

I've been trying all day to try to get mini bridge to work (or even show) in Photoshop.
I’ve tried a number of things to get this to work. I’ve uninstalled all my Adobe CC applications, run the Adobe cleaner file and reinstalled the applications - Adobe Bridge first. But still not appearing. I’ve checked under Window/Extensions and can only see Adobe Color Themes. I’ve also tried installing Extension Manager and Exchange Panel (which doesn’t seem to do anything - as I can’t see it anywhere).
I've also checked adobe forums to see what I could do. Some mention switchboard preferences, but I can't find these in the system files.
I’m running the latest Adobe Creative Cloud versions (CS6), but cannot get this to work - can anyone help?
Thanks.

This is an OS issue. Here is a link on how to do it in Win7. https://www.google.com/search?q=win7+system+tray&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en -US:official&client=firefox-a

Photoshop CS5 Mini Bridge Annoying Beep

I have an annoying issue with the Mini Bridge in Photoshop CS5, and I believe anyone could reproduce it if you do the following:
Open Photoshop CS5.
Have the Mini Bridge palette collapsed as an icon, docked somewhere (you can simply use the "Photography" workspace to do that).
Open anything, perhaps a new document.
Click on the Mini Bridge palette icon to open the Mini Bridge. Wait until it loads.
Then click on the same Mini Bridge icon again to collapse it.
Make sure your speakers are on.
Now press Space as you would do to pan around the document. You don't have to pan, it's enough to just press Space.
You will hear a beep sound, which you usually hear when OS X tells you that you're clicking an inactive window, or typing in a window that does not accept keyboard input, or in other similar situations. The beep will sound repeatedly while you hold Space down to pan around. It will sound each and every time you press space from then on, until you interact with the document using some other tool (like drawing something with the brush tool). Then the sound no longer happens when panning again.
The problem has occasionally happened to me when using other collapsed iconic palettes as well, however, I cannot always reproduce them.
This is a small issue that doesn't affect workflow, but having to click extra tools just to get rid of the beeping sound is very annoying, enough to make me not use the Mini Bridge.
I'm running Snow Leopard.
If anyone else can reproduce the issue, please post here. I can reproduce it every single time.

>But that's still not a proper solution.
we're not in a very good situation to know what or when Adobe will respond. We know that they are aware of many bugs but since history is all we have, CS4 had only 1 update before CS5 was released and we've already had that same first quarter update. So, without any more information I can only assume that the next fix will be after CS6 is released.
I know that Adobe can't discuss future plans...... but what Adobe can and can not do is up to them. So if Adobe wanted to announce an upcoming fix they could ( and they have in the past ). I can understand keeping new product releases under wraps, but this is just a fix for something that .... well..... we have already purchased.
>Just go to Mac 'System Preferences' - 'Sound', set the volume of the error beep to minimum and forget about it.
So, yes I have had the error sound set to "funk" and on very low for quite a while, which results in a low clicking sound.
Again, I feel like I need to repeat this, I like CS5, love PS, but some things can be better, and isn't that why we are all here. It just seems odd that you can purchase something today that has bugs but can't ask the vendor when it will be fixed?
regards.

[bridge cc] Mini bridge cannot be launched

Running adobe cc tools on win7
I have the
With Bridge cc (verified from help/`about bridte') running, I cannot get a minibridge. The full message reads:
Mini bridge cannot be launched because the
Mini the bridge extension is not installed
I'm not finding any instructions about how to install it, and a few posts here from Oct. indicate it is part of the CC tools.
Further ; I don't see anything on the cc installer/update tool about any such extension.

If it is a panel, how is that panel accessed? It is not amongst the panels listed under Windows menu item. The only reference I see is under File/Browse in Mini bridge
It should be in your PS Window menu under Window / Extensions / Mini Bridge If it has checkmark in front it should also be visible as a docked panel. The default workspace for PS CC has both Timeline and Mini Bridge docked as panels at the bottom of your PS screen (however this is for a Mac using the Application Frame, don's have Windows but it should be there by default, certainly if Mini Bridge is listed under extensions and has a checkmark in front)
Now from PS I click `File' / `Browse in Mini bridge'. At that point a small window pops open with this informaiton:
....Mini Bridge could not be launched because the
....Mini Bridge extension is not installed
That is indeed strange, on my system using the command to browse in Mini Bridge opens the MB panel wether I have it selected or not with a checkmark under Extensions.
So how am I to access the mini-bridge panel?
What have done wrong in the steps above?
The only thing that seems wrong is your install. First check if you have the latest updates for PS and Bridge using your Creative Cloud Application (which also should be up to date).
Then consider both PS and Bridge to reset preferences. for PS hold down shift + option + Command (Win - ctrl) while restart PS and choose delete pref settings file. For Bridge hold down option (Win-ctrl) key while restart Bridge.
If still no luck consider to uninstall using the official uninstallers for Adobe and then use ACC to reinstall. If still in trouble consider the same procedure but then with the use of Adobe Clean Tool.
In all cases first be sure to have a proper back up and also make sure you have your custom settings for PS (actions, brushes, presets etc) as well as for Bridge (export the keyword list also) before uninstall and use of clean tool
here is the info for the clean tool:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

CS5.5 - Where is Mini Bridge?

InDesign CS5.5, running in WinXP. I don't see Mini Bridge on the Window menu, and when I shift-click on the Bridge icon, it opens regular Bridge. When I click the link near the bottom which says "Reveal in Mini Bridge", I get an error message: "Unable to reveal this document". Yes, I have Bridge open already in the background. Same error no matter what document I have open.
Has Mini Bridge been discontinued in CS5.5?

Eugene, of course I've thought of that. But the evidence points to something more inbetween: an incompatility between my systems (plural) and Adobe products only, with perhaps both at fault. The CS4 updating problem occurred on my previous system. For various reasons I trashed that computer and got a new one. The very first non-Microsoft programs I installed were the CS4 suite. Well, guess what? First AIR updates failed one after the other, then anything that needed AIR, such as Media Encoder, failed to update and then stopped working entirely. Photoshop CS4 failed to update yet again. I lived with it. I also wasn't alone. I checked the forums and saw louder moans than mine on this same issue.
If I was the only single user experiencing the issues of nonconnectivity of CSLive, and malfunction of MiniBridge, in every application, I'd believe it's my system's fault only. But I've found enough evidence on these forums and elsewhere that the problem I'm having, though not rampant, is not unique to me. That means there is still hope for a possible workaround.
If anyone has a suggestion for any kind of workaround specifically to install MiniBridge in its latest form for CS5.5 applications--other than reformatting my computer and hoping it maybe works this time around--I will be delighted to try it!
And by the way, Eugene, I genuinely appreciate your taking the trouble to post your various suggestions. Everyone else, too.

Mini Bridge

My system is XP
I nstalled CS6 as an upgrade from CS4
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Mini bridge ststes looking for BRIDGE

Bridge has to be open for minibridge to work. Does Bridge work as advertised?

Folders browsing in Mini Bridge. Best practice

Good morning,
I use Bridge since we have no possibilitiy to see PSD files preview in Photoshop open dialog anymore and pretty satisfied with Bridge functionality.
But Mimi Bridge is different story. For example, I have some dosens of subfolders within main 'Work' folder and usually jump to the right folder simply typing first letters (client name). This works in Bridge but not in Mini Bridge, making the addon useless for me (scrolling is too time consuming for my business).
What is your personal best practice for file browsing in Mini Bridge? Can I switch-on 'browsing through typing' somehow?

What is your personal best practice for file browsing in Mini Bridge? Can I switch-on 'browsing through typing' somehow?
After the first appearance in CS4 (I believe?) it was a promising panel with great possibilities to come. Sadly enough they screwed the next version in a very bad way and never made an effort to repair or develop it further for production user needs and requests (which nowadays seems common practice with Adobe to be frankly).
Your best shot is preparing a collection or a smart collection (with your clients name as search for a complete result) in Bridge itself and navigate to the collection in the folder panel of MB. This avoids to have long waits for cache to build for each new selected folder and multi clicking to find the wanted folder. But as said, that is not the solution you really wanted to hear.
For me first preparing a collection in Bridge with the files I think I need for a project (mostly for a photo album) and then chose this in MB is the only way to make MB working in some way. Combined with creating a new workspace in PS with a floating MB panel (otherwise you can't have multiple rows of thumbs). This is still better then switching between applications but knowing that it could have been so much easier often makes me angry...

Installing Mini Bridge afterwards

Hello
I've the production premium of CS6 and when I installed the software, months ago, I didn't install Mini-Bridge for Photoshop (deselected it) but now I want to give it a try.
Can I download it somewhere separatly to just install it? (I'd prefer that - German version for Win7 HP 64bit)
Or do I have to reinstall my Photoshop from DVD? I wouldn't deinstall it before, just install it over the current version (13.0.1).
If so do I have to deactive it then before?
Will my workspaces and other personal settings be lost? And all updates?
Regards
Mopsi

Run the installer from the DVD/ download. Neither the activation nor any personal configuration will be affected by this, so it's not necessary to do anything on that end, but feel free to backup any customized keyboard shortcuts, presets, workspaces and so on just in case.
Mylenium

Slider in mini bridge

The slider in mini bridge has moved from the bottom to the side so I have to scroll down rather than across. How do I getr it back to the bottom?

How do I getr it back to the bottom?
Due to some strange design (or flaw) the MB panel has one single row and the scroll bar at the bottom when docked horizontally (as at the bottom of the default PS window - that is, in the default Mac Set up with Application Frame - together with the timeline panel)
If you dock it vertical with the normal panel set up the column changes to a single row with logical a vertical scroll bar.
However, only if you grab the panel and let it float free and resize its window the option to adjust thumb sizes is active and with this slider and the combination of the window resizing you will get a combination of rows and columns, albeit with always vertical scroll bar.
It is the free floating panel that makes it somewhat usable for me in combination with collection in Bridge. But to be honest, after the first appearance (CS4 or CS5?) I would have expected a lot of needed improvement, but sadly enough instead they seriously screwed up this high potential function

Photoshop CS6: Mini Bridge's Reveal in Bridge clears Bridge Filter list

I have Bridge CS6's Filter List set to reveal jpegs,PSDs,PNGs,and Tiff files,because those are the common file types I open in Photoshop. I even turn on "Keep Filter when browsing",so I do not have to repeat in each folder.
Then later I will be in Photoshop using the handy mini-bridge. I move to a folder and decide to use the Reveal in Bridge button for a certain image. Clicking on that image does indeed reveal it in Bridge,but it also turns off all my filter selections and I have to set them again.
Any fix for this?

Adobe needs to realize that if "as designed" results in users thinking it's a bug or otherwise not useful — then it's a bad design choice and should be revised. They need to leave options in place for people that don't agree with some of their "new" aka bad ideas.
Assuming users don't want to use Mini Bridge vertically is just ridiculous — especially since you can't dock it to the bottom in InDesign like you can in Photoshop.
And not showing folders in the thumbnail view is most unintuative thing to do here. If it's a Mini Bridge, why doesn't it behave like bridge and at least have a check box for filtering out folders or something.
Mini Bridge is kind of useless now.
-mpm

Adobe Mini Bridge in Photoshop CC 2014

Adobe Mini Bridge is dropped?
Is ts removed from photoshop CC 2014?
why?
Please reply soon...

It was flash based and Adobe is no longer supporting these.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2013/09/build-html5-based-extension-for-photoshop-more.htm

Adobe Bridge in CS4

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How to use Windows Task Manager
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Run the drill, reinstall everything.
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Photoshop CC2014 running under window 8.1. How do I access mini bridge. It does not show under FILE or WINDOW-EXTENSIONS. Works ok with CS6

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