Photo Downloader freezes randomly during download

Hi all,
I've used Bridge without trouble since CS5 was first released, but this week, it froze during a routine download of about 30 Gb from my Canon 7D.  [I do lots of time-lapse photography.]  When I retried the operation, it failed again, but at a different file.  I launched Task Manager and noted almost no CPU usage, either from PhotoDownloader or any other programs.  I retried again, downloading just one day at a time.  That worked fine (though not fun selecting the files and prone to human error).  Then, I connected my GoPro Hero 4 - also no history of probems - and after a few files downloaded successfully, it failed too, but this time with an error message about failing to communicate with the device.  And this time, I also noticed that all of my external hard disks spun up just prior to failure.  [This might've happened during the prior failures too but I didn't notice.]  Again, I downloaded in batches, day-by-day, and it worked fine.
As such, it appears that Photo Downloader is freezing or failing randomly - the fewer files I download at once, the less likely I am to have a problem.  I have a hunch that another program might be accessing all of the disks on my system and, consequently, temporarily blocking communications between Photo Downloader and the USB-attached camera, but haven't seen any processes spike in Task Manager.  [It may be a hidden Windows thing.]  I wonder if there's a time-out value in Bridge I can increase?
I'm using Adobe Bridge CS5 (4.0.5.11) on Windows.
Any ideas?

Rigel 7 wrote:
…temporarily blocking communications between Photo Downloader and the USB-attached camera…
Bad idea.
This excerpt is from a long-gone post by author Bruce Fraser:
Bruce Fraser - 4:17pm Jun 14, 04 PST (#5 of 21) Opening files directly from the camera is a bad idea for a variety of reasons*, and it most certainly isn't faster than using a FireWire or USB2 card reader.         •
        • Drains the camera battery
        • Runs the risk of the software you're using to open the images writing to the card and destroying the format
        • Runs a small but significant risk of USB power frying the camera
        • Slowest method known to mankind of getting images off a CF or SD card

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