P: No image preview on Open dialog box on Windows

Kind of reminds me of Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game."

Please read the previous posts in this topic which explain why this change was (politely) forced on us by the OS vendors.

So, when will Adobe have a fix for this? That would kind of end the thread, at last.

That has already been explained, repeatedly, in this topic.

Chris, I have been watching this thread for some time, having been an initial contributor and see a continuing set of the same requests met with the same rational from you. You always maintain that your hands are tied and that it is the OS makers that told you not to allow previews. It is hard for us to see validity in that statement since I see no evidence that the OS makers have moved their systems away from providing previews despite new releases. ( but I don't know all OSs ). You never show us any proof of your position.

May I also enquire as to whether or not you agree with the Wikipedia account of the CS6 dilemma as pasted below:

"Adobe also announced that it would continue to offer bug fixes for the CS6 products so that they will continue to run on the next versions of Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X.[55]

Note 55 from techcrunch.com/2013/05/06: The company has no plans to release any new versions of Creative Suite going forward,
but Adobe will ensure that every CS6 application will run on the next version of OS X and Windows.
It will also provide the usual bug fixes and security patches, but it won’t add any new features to the tools."

If this is true, why are we not able to get previews on current OSs? Since it appears Adobe is committed to continued bug fixes and security patches for CS6 it would also be committed to reversing out previews if it ever became necessary. I don't understand the problem here. Can you tell us again without just saying the same rather cryptic rational you have consistently used and flush it out for us a bit more?

Cheers, Rob d'Estrube

We are interested in a solution, but we have to work within the limit of what the OS vendors provide and allow.

Chris, although I moved on with this issue, it still still bugs me a lot. The things that I cannot comprehend is: why Adobe was not forthcoming (starting with CS6 I believe) to all its users about canceling the thumbnail/preview because of OS vendors issue? It would have been half as bad announcing it versus letting users unpleasantly discover the bad news. Secondly, unless I missed some newsletters, it seems that Adobe is not interested on working on a solution. Can you explain Adobe stance on this?
Thanks.

Please read the previous posts in this topic which explain why this change was (politely) forced on us by the OS vendors.

The Bridge UI is sorely lacking when compared to the other CS/CC products. Since Adobe isn't providing a thumbnail/preview option, the least they could do is bring the Bridge UI up to date.

Yes, I've been following the issue for so long. I use Bridge, too, but not loving it. So strange that such a basic thing could be dropped by Adobe.. hasn't been good for their PR, or their customers.