Bug Reports

Ich kann in der Adobe Bridge in der Ausgabeeinstellung kein PDF als Kontaktabzug erstellen. Es wir angezeigt: aufgrund eines unbekannten Fehlers ist das erstellen eines PDF's nicht möglich 

I recently upgraded to Bridge 2026 on my Mac Book Pro M1 Max, but a bug of some kind is now seriously disrupting my workflow. I can apply my colour labels with no issue; but when I transfer my labelled images across to Lightroom Classic 2026 for final editing, Bridge then systematically deletes all of the labels from the images, leaving them all with no labels. It does not delete star ratings in the same way. The images I have attached show the original labels, followed by two images which document the real time removal of those labes by Bridge after the images have been transferred to Lightroom Classic. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Might there be an error in my settings I can adjust?  Or is this a bug that needs fixing.

After updating to Photoshop 2026 it is not possible to open files straight into Photoshop. 

I work on Macs and use Adobe Bridge nearly every day for organzing large quantities of image files, I also use it in conjuction with dropbox, most of the folders I work in are hosted on Dropbox. For some reason, today a new bug appeared with Bridge.  Essentially if I drag a file from one folder into another, the file dissappears as if it's moved but it does not reappear in the target folder, it's as if the file dissapears into the void.  This is observable from the Mac Finder view, the file dissapears in Finder when moved via bridge.  However if the file is moved using finder, it transfer correctly.  This appears to be a Bridge problem.  The problem also occurs when I host the folders on my local hard drive rather than dropbox, so it doesn't appear to be dropbox related.  I originally experienced the issue while using Bidge 2025, but it's persisting even after upgrading to bridge 2026.  Does anyone have any troubleshooting tips?  Thank

Seit dem Update auf die Vers. Bridge 16.0.0.63 hängt sich das Programm fortwährend auf (keine Rückmeldung). Besonders krass ist die schlechte Performance bei der Stapelumbenennung von Dateien. Soll der neue Name eingegeben werden hängt sich das Programm entweder auf und wenn nicht, dauert es eine Ewigkeit bis überhaupt der neue Name eingegeben werden kann. Ist dies dann mal geschehen, benötigt die Umbenennung wiederum ewige Zeit. Für eine Datei allein fast eine Minute. Mit der letzten Vorgängerversion 15.xxx war dies keine Problem. Beide Versionen laufen (bzw. liefen) unter Windows 10 pro 64 bit.

Dear Adobe team,I just lost around two hours trying to understand why Bridge 2026 behaves completely differently from Bridge 2025 — and honestly, I’m very frustrated.Here’s what happened:After updating to Bridge 2026 on macOS,•I can no longer drag and drop folders from Finder or the Dock into Bridge.•Bridge keeps opening the same “stuck” default folder over and over, no matter what I do.•Even after a complete reset and reinstall, it ignores my actions and locks onto the first folder I ever opened in Bridge 2026.•It also triggers macOS “Move out of Dropbox?” prompts, even though my Dropbox files are fully synced and local.When I downgraded back to Bridge 2025, everything immediately started working again — drag & drop, proper folder memory, and no Dropbox issues.So this is clearly a regression in Bridge 2026, not a system or user problem.I’ve used Bridge for years and rely on it daily for managing photos, videos, PDFs, and design assets.This new version completely broke that workflo

Since upgrading to the latest Bridge, Batch rename is not working for me. Beyond the Finder/Dock issue, which has been reported, what else is broken. 

I often shoot a bracketed set of images, and stack those to make sorting through them easier. From there, I will rate them as different star ratings to help me narrow down the best shots.Since version 13 or 14, when I then filter by star rating, bridge will randomly change which image is the top of the stack. First off, this seems like a bug since it appears random, and why would it be like that? It should stack images based on file numer of time created, not randomly select different images to show as the top image. Or at the very least there should be an option to change how images are ordered in stacks.Going through each stack to "promote" a different image to the top of the stack takes an unnecessarily long amount of time when this issue never used to exist. The problem is when bridge randomly selects one of the darker images from the stack, it makes the sorting through my images much more difficult because I can't evaluate them equally when some stacks display brighter or dar

I used to be able to drop any file or folder from Finder (Mac OS) onto the Bridge icon in dock and it would show me the contents of that folder in Bridge. This basic feature no longer works with Bridge 2026.This is unacceptable!

"Bridge has encountered a problem and needs to close." Just got this message after trying to launch v16. I've been getting this message for the past year trying to load v15.  v14 is working okay, but I'd really like to  update as I hope the issues I am having with keywords would go away or at least be improved.Dell XPS 932013th gen Intel Core i7-1360P (2.20 GHz)32 GB RAMWindows 11 Pro v24H2OS build 26100.6899

Bridge is not showing thumbnails for .mxf files. Please repair this. I am on Mac Studio M3 Ultra / MacOS 15.7.1 / Bridge 15.1.2.737

I've been using Bridge for som years now, but I have stayed away from the rest of the suite from Adobe. And I've had the same old good old bugs you all complain about. But it always worked, even if at times (most times actually) quite buggy. I have 2023, 2024 and 2025 on my system if one of them didnt work for some reason. 2023 was ALWAYS my fallback as it was at least stable regardless. Soooo I just installed Photoshop and Lightroom Classic after years of abscence from the Adobe World. But after installing PS and LR, nothing works. Every single version just crashes and stalls. Result is I have to force quit and open up again. But same thing happens. It crashes. It unusable in any way shape or form.Then I noticed that the install has flipped the "autoupdate" switch in "Creative Cloud"..... I ALWAYS wait and see if theres new bugs introduced. Clearly now, nothing works. LR and PS works flawlessly. Just not any version of Bridge. What up with that? Grumpy Face

Unable to succesfully download/open Bridge V16.Mac suggests file does not have a date attached and will not open the download from Creative Cloud.Previous version 15.1.2.737 crashes when a search is entered.

As title says, the new update completely removed my ability to open any files in bridge rendering it completely useless. Needs fixing ASAP.

Ich habe seit paar Tagen das Problem, dass wenn ich Bilder von der Kamera importiere und in Bridge öffne, sind alle im Querformat. Auch Hochkant Bilder. Ich muss dann alle Hochkant markieren und manuell drehen. Hat wer eine Lösung? Hab über die Voreinstellungen nichts gefunden. Ich hab die Verion v16.0.0.

I installed Bridge 2026 to upgrade Bridge 2025 15.1.2 and it will not launch. I allowed the upgrader to copy settings and remove the old version. I have tried rebooting and running as admin with the same result. After reinstalling Bridge 2025 I can run that but the keywords panel is completely empty! There is no "Bridge 2026" folder in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\. Where are the settings that were copied over? I'm running Windows 10 on an old computer.

Hi!While using it, I noticed that it handles images slowly, sometimes it freezes during use. When exiting, clicking on the red X reacts slowly, it exits the program after 5-10 seconds, in worse cases it freezes. I hoped that these problems would be fixed, but I don't see any significant progress in this area. Please fix the errors. Simple free image management and viewing programs work faster with images. Please study competing programs. 

For the last week i have had issues in bridge. Working on a Macbook and have the latest version of Bridge 16.0.0.63. After downloading files onto my laptop i can see all the image thumbnails, then as i click on them some of them change to LR CR3 instead of the image thumbnail. I can't open them in Camera Raw or Photoshop (image below). I can see and open them in Lightroom. I've tried different SD cards and they both are doing it. I have tried purging the cache and increasing the size of it. Please help.

M1 Macbook Pro. Having screen flickering for 50% of raw images. Was happening on 14, 15 and now 16 version of bridge. This is making me furious! Have 3tb of photography to work through. This is one of the most basic key functions of being able to view images.Aside from not correctly showing 100% previews which has also been for years. The flickering (as if repeated reloading and switching color profiles) when space bar viewing images is just shocking. There are posts on this going back to 2020.I've done restarting. Fresh installs. Clearing caches. Turning off generating, turning off keeping color profiles, tried generating previews for entire folders. There is not any combination that works to stop this happening.This was happening on Sonoma and is still there in Tahoe.

This error pops up on every Illustrator startup now: Error in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Startup ScriptsCC\Adobe InDesign\indesign-v20.0.jsxLine I:I/0 error Tried reinstalling Creative Cloud and all apps using CC cleaner, no effect. Tried resetting preferences, no effect. Renaming the .jsx file (and then five or six others that it cycles through - or deleting the whole folder) helps but it's not recreated and removing it breaks Bridge automations. Uninstalling Bridge helps, which is why I wondered if Bridge is somehow locking the files such that Illustrator can't read them?

My bridge is frozen or crashed, I've restarted and nothing is helping and it's just saying not responding

I'm runnning into several problems with this.1) Bridge creates duplicate copies of files already imported.2) The interface does not display the iphone photo folders in name (date) sequence.  This makes it hard to find and select folders that have yet to be inported, adding to the duplicate problem.3) The import function seems to omit panoramas.4) Photos taken with the Project Indigo app are not identified as coming from PI. Bridge 15.1.2.737Iphone 15 Pro Max  IOS 26.0.1Windows 11 25H2  

The color labeling system is not working properly. When in Camera Raw, you can click numerals 6-9 to label by color and it shows properly in Camera Raw. Once you click “done” and go back to Bridge, the image is not color labeled. It is labeled white. When trying to sort by color, you have to right click on the image and then click select, second, approved, review, etc to get a color. Then when filtering the images, there is a separate list by color and a separate list by approval status. Please change it back to how it was.

SInce last update - I am on CR 17.5.12319 now - the inner circle (feathering amount) has not been visible. I can still adjust the feathering on the slider, but the graphical interpretation has gone.It's on two Windows 11 machines - a laptop and a very well spec. desktop, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.I don't know if this is on purpose, or perhaps somebody has made the same observation.Jan, DK

This was previously posted with no respose from Adobe. Blue thumbnails on video files persist. Latest verrion of Bridge on a new M4 Studio with latest system.