Opening Camera Raw within Bridge

I just recently installed Photoshop CS3, and within bridge when I try to open up any raw image, it opens it up in camera raw, but within photoshop. I can't find the option that allows me to open camera raw within bridge without having to launch photoshop.
I've tried the help pages and what they've described for me to enable this function can't be found...so weird. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Henry

I would really appreciate anyone figuring this one out. I'd rather not have to reformat my mac AGAIN. I just had to because photoshop cs3 was not installing properly. I am running OSX10.4.10 or somthing like that.
I have Design Premium CS3.
While in Bridge, there is no option to open in CameraRAw, whether I right click or click on File.
In the Preferences, there is no option to make "double click opens in CameraRaw."
Work flow is seriously hampered by this defect.
I purged my cache, but I don't see how to reset all settings.

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You need to look at all programs in your uninstall list, and see if you spot any old trials that are no longer active.
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Not a clue.
I have no idea what you mean by "broken circle" and no clue as to what platform you're on, Macintosh or Windows, exact version of the OS, Bridge, ACR and Photoshop, what type of machine, RAM, etc.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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Balearik wrote:
Yes, but when I open mini bridge in CS5, I can see Bridge open on my taskbar at the bottom of the screen and I can click on it. In CS6 I can't see bridge open anywhere when I open mini bridge. It is like there is a separate version of bridge running invisibly or something. I don't understand it.
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OS 10.5.5
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When I open PS4, click Photoshop, click about plug in, ONLY one version of Camera Raw comes up.
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Hello, and welcome to the forum, Ludwig.
It seems that you missed both the readme ( http://www.adobe.com/special/photoshop/camera_raw/Camera_Raw_5.3_ReadMe.pdf ), or the detailed instructions on the bottom on the very page where you downloaded the update: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4365
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Please post this information on the other forums where you also saw unresponded questions on the same topic, so that you can help others!

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Parts of the following may illustrate what happens when the scratch file is on your boot drive:
The rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
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Hello my name is jose quant, and let me know how I can use CAMERA RAW adobe bridge because the bridge use and want to open a camera raw image, I get a message that says: MAIN BRIDGE aplicaion NOT ACTIVATED. BRIDGE REQUIRES A PARTICULAR PRODUCT HAS BEGUN A

Hello my name is jose quant, and let me know how I can use CAMERA RAW adobe bridge because the bridge use and want to open a camera raw image, I get a message that says: MAIN BRIDGE aplicaion NOT ACTIVATED. BRIDGE REQUIRES A PARTICULAR PRODUCT HAS BEGUN AT LEAST ONCE TO ACTIVATE THIS FEATURE. I wonder what that means?
I use a lapto (windows 7) 64-Bit operating system.
Thank you,
my email is: [email protected], if you send me the answer to my query

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