Bug Reports

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. 

Every time I open Bridge, I have to check the Camera Raw settings and the settings of the entire program. It turns out that Brigde stopped saving my settings. What's worse, I could always display individual photos in the catalog in the menu on the left. Now only the catalogs are visible, and the photos appear at the bottom. I don't know how to change it, as it was before.I use MacOs Tahoe.

Why is it that Adobe bridge 2025 has issues tagging keywords with CR2 Cannon files, I have a MacBook, latest operating system,camera raw and Photoshop etc. Older versions of Adobe Bridge had no problem tagging the images with keywords. But with the new version I keep getting "cannot apply metadata" one Adobe technician told me to just change over my files to a different format, which is easy to say but difficulty do if you have tens of thousands of images.

Hi,I'm using Adobe Bridge Ver. 15.1.2.737 running on a desktop PC running Windows 11 Home Ver. 24H2, and I wish to use the Photo Downloader option to download .HIF files saved to a SD card from a Sony a6700.  I have installed the relevant HEIF and HEVC extensions and Bridge viewer happily displays the .HIF files by browsing to the relevant photos directory on the SD card and also once they have been saved to a directory using windows file explorer.Any thoughts on how to get this to work, or possibly this will require an update to the "Photo Downloader" part of the program to recognise .HIF files as photos?Thanks, Pete

Suddenly, Bridge is displaying jpg files in preview mode with a coarse grain, while dng and psd files remain fine.Does anyone have any idea what is going on? It is still working correctly on my wife's PC, but I cannot find any difference in the settings...

Hi,I'm using Adobe Bridge Ver. 15.1.2.737 running on a desktop PC running Windows 11 Home Ver. 24H2, and I wish to use the Photo Downloader option to download .HIF files saved to a SD card from a Sony a6700.  I have installed the relevant HEIF and HEVC extensions and Bridge viewer happily displays the .HIF files by browsing to the relevant photos directory on the SD card and also once they have been saved to a directory using windows file explorer.Any thoughts on how to get this to work, or possibly this will require an update to the "Photo Downloader" part of the program to recognise .HIF files as photos?Thanks, Pete

Today I open Bridge and it turns out that I don't have folders in the folder panel. I always had a tree of folders and subfolders, I also saw a preview of my photos there. Now it's gone. A lot of information has been hidden, it takes a lot of patience to find it. What happened? Did changing the system to Tahoe work that way, or the Adobe team can't keep up with Adobe's repair. I will also add that the Bridge application takes a long time to open. I also often receive a message that it has been closed.