Bridge

We're happy to announce the Public release of Adobe Bridge 16.0   This October 2025 release of Adobe Bridge includes stability and security fixes.   Note: As always, the update will be rolled out incrementally. If you do not see the update in the Creative Cloud Desktop app, please wait until we roll out the public update to all users.   To update Bridge to 16.0, click "Update" in the Creative Cloud desktop app next to Bridge. More detailed instructions for updating

Since the Bridge 2026 update, dragging a Finder folder directly onto the application's icon in the Dock no longer works. It was quite convenient. Has anyone else noticed this?

Hello.   I just updated Bridge to 2026 - running Mac OS 14.7.   Prior to the update, I was able to drag a folder of images from Finder to my Bridge icon in the taskbar and it would open that folder. This no longer works.   This old process was super efficient. Now to open something, I need to double click through MANY folders within Bridge to get to what I need.  

All of the sudden, after a day of regular work, Bridge 16 stopped letting rename files or assign stars or labels. When I click on the name field of the file it seems disabled. My Mac runs on 15.7.2 . I tried updating OS, tried uninstalling and installing Bridge again. The disc access is granted in the security settings. What should I do to resolve?

Using Bridge (16.0.0.63) and I can no longer send files to (25.6 Build98) Adobe Media Encoder (Tools/Media Encoder/Add to Encoder Queue). Adobe Encoder launches but no files show up in the queue. 

This is my second post about this. Yesterday morning Bridge (2026, on MacBook Pro M5 with Tahoe) stopped working. It begins to lauch, the menu bar appears, but then nothing else. If you try to use a menu, for example the "about Bridge" or anything that would call up something on the screen, nothing hasppens and the menus all grey out. Then you have to use force quit to cloe down. I've tried everything I see on hte web to no avail. If I hold the coamn/optio/shift keys I get a window that  allows me to choose emptying cache and/or deleting presents (nothing about startup files) but doing that doesn't alter the results. I starting from teh finder insteard of the doc, but the same things happen. Any ideas?  Ed Merrin

Hi Adobe Community,I can't uninstall the old version of Adobe Bridge, v: 9.1.  It doesn't appear in Creative Cloud and also doesn't appear in the list in Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.  It does not appear in Windows 11 uninstall or Revo Uninstaller, and Revo Forced Uninstall doesn't find it.  Is there any way to remove this old version?  Thanks.Zaffer

This bug too has been around for some time.  Each time Bridge has an update I hope that it's been addressed but alas, not so. Selecting files in a folder (say, I select all the .NEF files but not the .JPG files) and then drag-and-dropping those selected files to another folder (say I want to move .NEF files into their own directory) moves those files PLUS it moves other random files as well. Scenario:  Folder 1 has a mix of NEF and JPG files.  I select only the NEF files, and move them by drag-and-dropping them into a newly created "NEF" folder.  Bridge will move the selected NEF files, but it will also move random JPG files from the origninal folder, even though those files were not selected. This happens every single time.  It is a major pain in the butt.  Adobe, can you please address.  Thank you.

This bug has been around for as long as I can remember.  I just feel like this needs to be addressed.  Deleting images from a given folder in Bridge, and then Undoing the action (Command+Z) restores the deleted files, PLUS, it restores others, previously deleted from other folders, and restores them into your present folder.  It creates a huge mess.  Adobe, please kindly address.

Subdivision in staples is lost after names are changed in batch, as well with stapled foto's (double blue line) as after funfolding out all staples

Anything I search for in the Adobe Bridge quick search (in the top right of the app) yeilds zero results. I'm trying to search terms in my Sound Effects library. No matter what I search, no items are found. If I search a term in the general File Explorer (outside of the Bridge app) I get results.  I've unistalled and reinstalled Bridge. Still not working. I've downloaded the beta version of Bridge. Still not working. 

BonjourJe n'arrive pas à ouvrir les fichiers présents sur mon NAS DS218J. Le fichier apparait avec un cadenas en haut à droit, sans affichage de l'aperçu.Avez-vous une solution ?Merci

Before updating to 16.0.0.63, on a Window computer, I could batch rename my paired files (.NEF and .JPG).  Now the program assigns each its own number rather than the same number for the paired files.  I have to batch rename the NEF files and then repeat the process for the JPG .  

In the Folders section of Bridge, "This PC" and subsequent folders are listed twice; duplicated.  I'm using the current version of Bridge and have reinstalled twice, to no avail.  Microsoft File Explorer and other like apps work Ok, no duplicated trees. Any thoughts?  

Links in Illustrator .ai files are not surfaced in Bridge like they are for .indd and .psd files. It seems Illustrator link support is missing or broken. I would like to be able to see in Bridge that an .ai file has links and then be able to use the "Show Linked Files" Bridge context menu item. Illustrator links are stored in the "Manifest Reference File Path" metadata, while InDesign and Photoshop use this key: "Ingredients File Path" Perhaps Bridge could read both keys when Showing Linked FIles. 

I couldn't found how to disable mandatory use of Ctrl key combined with a digit (e.g. Ctrl+1) for rating files in the latest version of Bridge. Since I use ratings very often, it's very uncomfortable to press 2 keys instead of one. Adobe team, do restore the checkbox, please!

Bridge (version 16) was working normlly as of this morning. Later, when lauched there were no windows and  most of the items on the menus were greyed out. I tried emptyig the cache, reinstalling the program, etc to no avail. Eveb the "About Bridge" window doesn't appear. Other apps are fine., including Photoshop. This is on a MacBook Pro M5 with Tahoe installed.

just upgraded and now bridge is no longer working with photoshop. both are update. system has been restarted.  who needs a workflow when you are paying hundreds of dollars a year for apps that work inconsistently! unbelieveable how far your products are slipping. 

I'm extremely frustrated that despite extensive online research, including Google, YouTube, and the Adobe community forums, I've been unable to resolve this issue. While editing hundreds of photos in Adobe Bridge, I've noticed that as soon as I apply a rating star (1, 2, 3, etc.) to an image, it inexplicably moves to the very bottom of the non-rated photos. This forces me to constantly search to find where I left off and locate the image I had previously selected and rated.  

Yesterday I discovered that the Keywords list in Bridge 16.0 (2026) was totally empty! Before that I assigned keywords on November 6th latest (probably even on November 9th). I checked the XML file in users\..appdata\roaming etc, but the file size was just 1KB and it had no keywords in it. When checking the 2025 and 2024 XML files, I saw they too were empty. How can I recover the keywords I used until November 6th or November 9th? I updated Bridge from 2025 to 2026 about a week ago.   

I do not wish to have Bridge continue making these files and am curious about how to disable them? I am the only one who uses Bridge in a pipeline and do not want to manually delete the file after every project