Why No Mini Bridge In AI CS 5?

The mini bridge is rapidly becoming my favorite features but it is not available in Illustrator, Illustrator supports drag and drop from the find as does Photoshop CS 5, I am glad that Photoshop now supports drag and drop from the finder but wonder why they did not bother to bring the mini bridge to illustrator which would make it simpler to find items to drag and drop with the the need to exit the document foocus.
Doesn't quit make sense to not support this feature in Illustrator which would benefit greatly for it.

But InDesign has it as well and I think this is like the craziest omission I can think of and they have made some serious ones in the past.
Hopefully the next version all the apps will have it and that in case there are any problems it will be done in the way so that it will not cause any unforeseen difficulties.
thanks for the answer David. Good you can find a little time to visit here as with this thread we all guess and you know better.

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Why No Mini Bridge in AI CS6?

Am I the only one that thinks this feature would be really a time saver in AI.
I mean since you can drag and drop from the finder images and files into AI and the mini bridge brings the finder to your work space I think it would be helpful to not have to refocus to the finder or us explorer on windows to locate your assets.
I am wondering why I never hear about the lack of this feature when it is popular in Photoshop and Premiere and other Adobe applications.
Just wondering, also wondering why Adobe just doesn't do this for all the apps?

I am not certain you understand what I see as a time saving feature this is not about information as such but about access to files the information is fine but asset management is a more important issue and first things first as far as making the feature request both the Bridge and the Mini Bridge are feature requests I made long before there was such features.
I was curious about why it was not implimented in all the programs as it shouldd have been done by now?
Phtoshop has it, InDesign has the Mini Bridge and Premiere Pro and Audition have media browsers so I don't really see the reason not to include such a feature.
As far as more information that might be a good feature request.
I just need access to files right now.

Bridge & Mini Bridge

I am running Windows 7 home premium and I noticed when I launch Bridge from the file menu and then close out of Bridge it knocks Mini Bridge off line and it needs to reconnect. This happens if I click the "X" or if I go through the file menu to exit Bridge. What is up with that? Currently I have Mini Bridge launching from its last folder location with the start up of CS6. Why should Mini Bridge close and need reconnecting if i am closing Bridge?

So we the users are going to play the reconnection game. I have mini bridge open to my working folder when I close CS6. When I relaunch CS6 it automatically opens mini bridge and loads its last folder location, which would be my working folder. That is great because it saves me time to have it automatically open this location for me. Because it automatically launches mini bridge "bridge" is launched and the "BR" icon shows up in my task bar area. So far so good. Now I need to find a new image to work on. Mini bridge is not the ideal way to search, so I open "Big Bridge" and with its much improved speed I happily find my next project. I load it to CS6 and begin work with the intention of saving this to my working file that is displayed in mini bridge. I'm now done with "Big Bridge", so I close it and now I have to "reconnect" mini bridge. Not a big deal I just hit the button right? I get to hit the reconnect button every single time I close "Big Bridge" because it affects both. So, what is the point of having the ability to view two different file locations if I truly can not use them independently of each other, because if I close "Big Bridge" I have to go back and reconnect mini bridge every time. That would be kind of like having an Ipod that I'm playing music on and I leave the music area to use my kindle app but the music stops playing because I left that area to go read. Am I the only only who opens multiple folders when searching or working with images? Even though much faster could bridge once again be the ho hum feature of CS6 because it is not user friendly?

Why isn't adobe mini bridge showing up in photoshop?

I can't find mini bridge in the file drop down menu. Anyone know why?

If it's Photoshop CC 2014, it has been removed. You'll need Photoshop CC if you still want it.
Here's why:
Mini Bridge, Kuler, Exchange missing from Photoshop CC 2014
Gene

Why do I not have the option for my mini bridge in photoshop?

I have a MAC and photoshop CC 2014 and I do not have any option to open mini bridge or even view in mini bridge anywhere in my settings, options or where it should be at the bottom of my photoshop.
Does anyone know where it is or why I don't have it?
Thanks,
Nicole

Thank you. I was finally able to take to tech support too and they tell me it has been removed. Thanks again. I will take a look at the link.

Why are no Adobe Drive Volumes available in Mini Bridge?

Mini Bridge is avoiding Adobe Drive Volumes. Why is it like this? It looks like it pro-actively tries to hide them.
One of the few exceptions is in InDesign, when you try to show a linked resource in Mini Bridge. Then it will show the actual folder, but when navigating some folders up, the process associated to Mini Bridge will crash.
Is it possible to activate Adobe Drive Volumes in Mini Bridge? Or will it be possible in a future version?

Mini Bridge is avoiding Adobe Drive Volumes. Why is it like this? It looks like it pro-actively tries to hide them.
One of the few exceptions is in InDesign, when you try to show a linked resource in Mini Bridge. Then it will show the actual folder, but when navigating some folders up, the process associated to Mini Bridge will crash.
Is it possible to activate Adobe Drive Volumes in Mini Bridge? Or will it be possible in a future version?

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

I've just downloaded photoshop and bridge cc. I have two challenges. First, I don't have a mini bridge option in the photoshop drop down menu or at the bottom of the photoshop workspace. What could be causing this? 2nd. From my old version of PS, I

I need some help! I just upgraded from PS CS2 to CC photoshop, bridge and lightroom CS6 CC. It is very different. I have 2 initial problems. 1) I do not have an option for mini bridge. It isn't in my PS dropdown menu nor an icon at the bottom of the PS work space. Why don't I have a minibridge? 2) In CS2, I could doubleclick on an image in Bridge and it would automatically open it in PS. That doesn't work with CS6 (creative cloud). Should it? Its like the two products are not interacting as they should. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Jenwebber,
Mini Bridge is not available in Photoshop CC 2014. Please refer to below link.
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/mini-bridge-kuler-exchange-missing.html
Also as JJMack stated, make sure you have all the applications up to date.
Thanks

Mini Bridge "Waiting for Bridge" error Macintosh

We'd been having this error on a couple of our computers and none of the steps in the KB article http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/error-waiting-for-bridge-cs5.html are working.
We initally set up one computer to be used as our master image. Once we had things working the way we wanted on this computer we cloned the drive using Carbon Copy Cloner and distributed the master image to 3 other computers for testing. Mini Bridge was working fine on the master image. Once we cloned the master we changed the name of the default user account to our intended user's name following Apple's directions for changing user account names. Mini Bridge did not work on any of the user accounts on the cloned computers even those accounts whose names did not change. I even tried creating a new test account and it still does not work.
I've been doing some experimenting removing various Adobe related files and then trying to use the Mini Bridge until I figured out what worked. What I found was I could go to Library/Application Support/Adobe, and using Get Info, make the default user the owner of the Adobe folder. (They already had read/write permissions.) After that they are able to use the Mini Bridge. However, none of my other user accounts can work with the Mini Bridge since they are not owners of the Adobe folder. It seems that Mini Bridge is only able to function if the current user is also the owner of the Adobe folder?
I looked at the permissions on the master for the Adobe folder and it said it was owned by root and belonged to the admin group. On the cloned images it states that it is owned by the default user and belongs to the staff group. I tried using Terminal and changed the owner and group to root and admin as it was on the master, but that didn't make any difference. It will still only work if the default user is actually made the owner of the folder.
We will be cloning several more computers this way and I'd like to figure out why this is not working and see if there is a way to make it work for all users of the computer. I am sure something is happening with permissions on the Adobe folder when the user account is renamed on the clone, however I also did a group of 4 laptops this same way and those cloned computers all work fine under all user accounts.

Omke,
Thanks for the suggestions. I finally got it working today.
We've been using Bridge for quite a while but the Mini Bridge is new to us as we are just now updating to CS5. I did notice a bit of lag time with Mini Bridge and sometimes it didn't want to display the items on networked drives, but if I hit the backward and forward arrows it would work, so maybe just a screen redraw issue or something there, but other than that it seems to be working ok over our network for now.
Your tip about having only one copy of Bridge open at a time was the key. We have been able to open the same program on multiple user accounts simultaneously before, but I can't say that we have with Bridge. I didn't notice it at first but when you choose Mini Bridge in InDesign it is actually opening the full Bridge in the background though it doesn't open the Bridge window, but looking at my Dock I see where it has been launched. When I would switch to another user account to test the Mini Bridge I wasn't closing out of Bridge in the first account, since I didn't realize it was open, so I'm assuming since it was still open there it could not launch it under the second user. Once I closed out of Bridge on the first account it worked fine on the second.
So think we have it resolved now.
Thanks so much for the tip! This has been driving me crazy for a day and a half. Now I can get on with my other computer set-ups.
By the way, we are ok on the number of CS copies floating around, we have a volume license. :-)

Mini-Bridge reset?

I cannot find a way to reset mini-bridge, it will only ever show the very first files I ever used, and never anything else. Makes it kinda useless.
I am using CS6, along with PS. Win 7.
There is also no option to remove anything from Mini.
I can no longer drag something from Bridge to Photoshop, nothing happens.
I have to rclick to open the menu, and manually send to PS
But the main problem, mini bridge has the same 7 files showing that I first opened weeks ago showing. Nothing else will go there.
I've right clicked everywhere, tried all windows
in both PS and Bridge. Nothing about resetting Mini.
Why is resetting Mini NOT an option?

Photoshop cc2014, windows 7, instructions to open mini bridge tab are; open photoshop program, as it opens press cntrl, alt and shift to open prompt for default settings. When prompt opens, press yes and then the program continues to open and the tab for the mini bridge should open at the bottom left corner of the application page. I have done this numerous times and no tab appears, I even uninstalled photoshop and re installed and it still did not work. ( not sure what platform you mean, I am a novice, to say the least.

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.

CS6 Mini Bridge - Thumbnail size and preview

I've just upgraded to CS6 (design & web premium) and was setting up my workspace in InDesign, and after adding (docking) Mini Bridge there seems to be no preview or anyway to change the size of the thumbnails I can view.
I use Mini Bridge a lot as we have folders that include 100+ assets in, and it's good to see a small thumbnail to quick scan, then to click on it to see more detail. Now all I can see is a maximum of 6 thumbnails, which means I will need to scroll a lot to find anything.
I've read the following topic from the PS CS6 Beta forum (http://forums.adobe.com/message/4286375#4286375#4286375), and was wondering if this "as designed" thinking has been rolled over to InDesign, meaning that in order to change the thumbnail size (with no preview), I have to have Mini Bridge undocked and if I want to see more detail, I have to enlarge the thumbnail, then reduce again to carry on searching?
If so, it seems like a massive oversight, as InDesign is a layout tool and having easy access to multiple documents to include (and to see what they are) is vital, which isn't helped by the seemingly arcane way to access folders.
Hopefully this is me just being a bit dim and missing something obvious, otherwise it's going to cause a lot of hassle in my day to day work.
If anyone has a definitive answer, that would be great.
Cheers.
Craig Hurford

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

I have Photoshop CC 2014 on my Mac and cannot find Mini-bridge under file, window or in the online add-ons.

Was Mini-Bridge discontinued in Photoshop CC2014? It is not under the file or Window menus. I cannot find it under add-ons on line. I have a Mac, is that why I'm not seeing it? Any help would be very useful.

Aricia93313 wrote:
Was Mini-Bridge discontinued in Photoshop CC2014?
Yes.
See Photoshop: Spring Cleaning | PHOTOSHOP.COM BLOG
"Mini Bridge
Mini-Bridge is an Extension Panel using Flash and therefore must be removed now that Flash is no longer supported in Photoshop. Bridge CC remains available as a stand-alone file browser application for designers and photographers needing to browse non-photographic file formats.
Lightroom, which is available with Creative Cloud and the Photoshop Photography Program, is an alternative for photographers as a way to work with multiple photos and hand them off to Photoshop for additional processing."

Extensions Panel greyed out in Photoshop CC on a Mac. Can't open Mini Bridge

I've just (yesterday) joined the Adobe Cloud, with full access to all the Adobe programs.
Opening Photoshop, I also wanted Mini Bridge open but the 'Extensions' item on the 'Window' menu is greyed out and can't be selected.
I've tried opening Bridge first, the Photoshop and vice versa, either way, the problem is the same. I've checked the Photoshop Preferences under 'Plug Ins' and made sure 'Load Extensions Panel' was ticked (which it was originally)
So, basically, no matter what I try, the Extensions Panel seems to remain greyed out.
Can any of you good people come up with the reason why this is happening and how I can solve i please?
Many thanks in advance
Steve

Phil Dx wrote:
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My main plug-in (resize 8) is not yet compatible, and so PS thinks there are no extensions, hence it's greyed out. but it took several days of troubleshooting to find this out.
If your resize 8 plug-in is from onOne then you need to install version 8.5.1 for the plug-ins to be available through extensions. Even before the 8.5.1 update to the suite the resize 8 plug-in was available via the File->Automate... menu item after a re-install of the suite so it detected CC 2014.

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