Bridge

Previously, when I was on CS6, Bridge started up in my system tray at login, and stayed there until I needed it - and on X-ing out, it closed to my system tray. Now, Bridge is not in the system tray at all, whether it's open or minimized. It is only in the main taskbar when it's open, therefore, I can't check "Start Bridge at Login" from the system tray context menu. I have it checked in Preferences, but no matter what, it is not available in the system tray. When my system starts in the morning, it does NOT open in the background. It starts open on a monitor. This behavior started after I upgraded to the Creative Cloud from CS6 when I was still on Windows 10 late last year. I performed a clean install of Windows 11 the other day, so it's not a conflict with the older version. Is this just the way it works now, or is there a or a tweak perhaps in the registry that could fix this or is this a BUG? Thanks for any suggestions!

Hey everyone, Im looking for software that can connect to a USB camera and take videos or photos and then catagorize or add metadata to them. I wasnt sure if Bridge had this fuctionality or not. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Jared

When I open Bride and try to open a folder I get an error message saying:  The operation could notbe completed.An unknown operating system errorhas occurred.   If I click ok the error just keeps popping up and I have to force quit the application.  It is only happening in one folder on my external hard drive but it is the folder I have to access most frequently!   Please help!  

I posted this first in Photoshop as it was related to appdata, but continuing, is more relevant here:I keep getting spinning circles and things take so long.  I wanted to open 2 files in Bridge, while Photoshop was already open and it took 6 minutes, and to just to shadow/highlight and levels, the total time was 14 minutes.  In Bridge, most of the RAW files don't preview the crops and adjustments made in camera raw.  I went to preferences, as saw that the Camera Raw cache is listed as in C://users/myname/appdata.  but when I try to look in file manager directory tree, it shows no appdata folder.  I wanted to delete it and put it on the 😧  drive.  I purged what it showed in preferences and took about 10 or more minutes.  I am trying to make more room on my C: drive and wonder about folders such as AA5677B8DE244720A76DD5D0758E8372gs and BD7B9A37BB7E408FB57BF97CA8DB371Cgs .  Are these important.  When I try to s

I'm still getting freezes in Bridge during Batch Renames.  I'd like to include a link to a dump file, but it is over 11Gb in size and therefore too large for my free Dropbox Account to handle.  Happy to load it to your Dropbox Account though....    My machine is a PC running Windows 11, but I had this problem before upgrading from Windows 10.  I've often found that crashing Bridge using the Windows Task Manager, and then re-opening Bridge shows that the Batch Rename HAS actually completed even though the dialog box was still up and stalled part way through.

Witam mam problem. Zdjęcia automatycznie przyciemniają się po prezentacji w programie Bridge. Proszę o pomoc, jak do wielkości?

Hi folks,It appears that I have regroup images that were previously grouped when I update Bridge. True? Have I missed something that would allow the groups to be carried forward? If not, can't Adobe build this into updates?Thanks!

I am shooting product photos and they are being uploaded in real time to my dropbox folder. I'd like to have Bridge automatically select the newest photo as they are uploaded so I can preivew them on my monitor without having to walk to my computer each shot. Is there an easy way to do this besides putting a weight on my right arrow key?

Hi, I have my asset folders organised according to date, so:2021_12_01-seascape2021_12_02-mountainhike... and so on. These all sit in a root folder and cover a number of years. I want to create a Smart Collection of all .dng and .orf files from the year 2021. Short of adding these indidually, is there a way of creating this Smart Collection and filtering the root folder by both date range and two different file types? Is there a way of finding files by a date range? I have tried to find files using Date Created but cannot work out the boolean for a date range. Selecting 'is greater than or equal to' on the date 01/01/2021 doesn't work. I tried 'is greater than 01/01/2021' and it's still pulling in results from 2020, 2019 ete. The screenshot below shows the criteria 'is .dng and is from 1st Jan 2021 onwards', but underneath is indexing a folder from 2018:  Furthermore, even if I work out a date range I cannot use a combination of 'if any criteria is met' and 'if

I hate waiting for thumbnails to generate when I go into bridge. I move from folder to folder often and revisit the same folders after more than a few months, when bridge purges, I have to wait for the thumbnails to generate again. If I get an SSD that is large enough to hold 100% sized JPEGs of all my photos, can I set bridge to save all the preview jpegs indefinitely, or will it cause a problem? If I can do that, how would IO set it up? Thanks in advance!

Bridge 2022 for MacOS 12.0.1 keeps crashing on me and sending error reports to Adobe. It's very frustrating. I've put a lot of time into going through and rating photos and videos I want to use for a project and now it seems I may need to find another way of organizing things entirely. Any suggestions? Does anyone know is Adobe working on this problem? 

Hi All,   Lateest versions of Photoshop and Bridge. MBook Pro Big Sur.   I am unable to remove Dr Brown's Services from Bridge. I have removed its files from Photoshop Scripts and Bridge presets in the Finder menus. But when I open Bridge and go Tools, in the drop down meny Dr Brown's Services is still there.    I have uninstalled&reinstalled Bridge but thats not helping the issue. Does someoine knows what is going on here and how to have it removed from the Tools meny in the Bridge?    

Hello, I wanted to open Bridge today but was wondering why it was black (see attached screenshot)After making an update I still have the same problem. I cannot see anything. I have macOS BigSur and there are still about 49GB space left (from 121GB) Do you have any suggestions for me, what's wrong and how I can fix the problem? Thanks

I downloaded v12 of Bridge and now I am finding that all of the thumbnails are not showing as well as the metadata.  Has anyone else had this problem?  The previous of Bridge worked fine so can someone tell me how to delete v12 and re-install the prior version?

When the XMP file for one picture is copied from a MAC to a Windows PC (and reassociated with its corresponding CR2 file) and opened in Bridge the Sky mask layer is present but it has no affect on the image: a small yellow warning triangle says 'Sky 1 could not be loaded'. Other brush masks have loaded on the same image without problem. Can anyone suggest a reason for this please.

What happened with the latest update to Bridge? It has always been slow and less than perfect coming to file handling speed. But now it thinks for 15-20 seconds when selecting a photo, then again when pressing space bar to preview. Same thing if double clicking on name to rename files, then again if copy pasting a new name etc. Really ridiculous. Never had these problems before, and been using more or less every version since the initial release. Hard to see it as a hardware problem. Running Win10, 128Gb RAM, dual 10 core Xeon processors and Nvidia Quadro RTX4000, separate SDD drives for OS, programs and scratch.Working files on externals or server.Any idea what's up? All was fine before update to version 12. 

Can somebody please help me to fix this problem? I am on Mac Os Big Sur and my desktop computer shows the MP4 video files but without the picture. I am a video editor so I must be able to see them. I have a laptop and there the images are showing. The problem happened after the new Bridge update. I removed and reinstalled Bridge but nothing has changed. Thank you for your help! 

Hi all, is it possible to organize folders of photos by the creation date of the photos inside the folder? Google Picasa3 did this excellently and I cannot find any other software that does this, and I don't want to have to rename all my thousands of folders using a date format. 

Hi all. I have a (not so small) problem with adding keywords in Bridge. For a cliënt i've added keywords to about 1000 pictures in the course of the last two weeks. When I openened Bridge this morning, only about 50 pictures still had their keywords. When I try to add keywords to the other pictures I get an error saying something like ''error with writing metadata to picture.... .jpg) How can I fix this? I just wasted two weeks of work and the cliënt doesn't have it's keywords now. Thanks in advance. Pieter 

Hello to All! First, NOT a somputer guy! Just had a new computer built, Intel-Gen7, and when re-uploading the CC version of Photoshop/Bridge, looks like I don't have the option for "filmstrip" in bridge now, don't see "filmstrip" anymore?Rich

Since to latest update to Bridge in Windows 10 I have discoverd that when using preview or filmstrip to view Nikon NEF files in order to select which to delete before editing in Photoshop the image of the file in the  preview window is about the same size as the thumbnail in the lower window and does not appear to be able to enlarged. Camera RAW is up to date and JPEG's show as they should in the preview window. I have tries clearing caches but this has not helped. All is well when I use preview with same RAW files on a MAC so it can't be an issue with the files imported from the camera. Any suggestions will be welcome. many thanks Colin

So I want to redo all my photos(about 2000 of them) keywords. I want to delete all keywords in the photo and delete all the keywords in the filter/keyword list. I have tried to find this in the community but nothing works that I have found. Please HELP  Thanks Mike

I downloaded Creative cloud and through that I installed Bridge and Camera Raw.  The account I used for my creative cloud was through my student account as I have access to adobe through these.  The problem is that every time I attempt to acces Camera Raw through bridge a message pops up saying " Camera Raw editing is not enabled. Camera Raw editing requires that a qualifying product has been licensed" I do not know how to proceed. Any help would be much appreciated.

I had been using  such script  found somewhere in internet  for  a while but lost it  after a ssd crush?     Does anyone have a link? Or maybe a script that could load select files as linked smart objects and  make a single smart object of them  with layercoms switch ? 

Hi,I have just changed my laptop and was just wondering if the is a quick way to move all my keyword filters, collections ect to the new computer or do i have to go through and set every thing up from scratch? dose the creative cloud save all this data so when you sign in its already there and ready to go? Will