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Felix Feygin
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November 8, 2019
Question

Bridge 2020 Generating Thumbnails Takes Forever

  • November 8, 2019
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Generating thumbnails now takes 3x as long as the previous version. Tried purging cache, resetting bridge nothing works. Im on Win 10, 64GB Ram never had this issue until now. Anyone have any ideas or experiencing similar issues?

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    jimo66
    Participating Frequently
    December 30, 2021

    this is ridicules every time i switch to another folder i have to wait for 3 minutes for thumbnails to generate

     

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    struffsky
    Known Participant
    December 31, 2021

    what color profile do you use in your pictures?

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    Donovan Rittenbach
    Known Participant
    January 4, 2022

    I didn't know you could even choose one. Not really relevant. It's Adobe default.

    CurleyJohnson
    CurleyJohnson
    Participant
    March 11, 2021

    Honestly I've had this same issue for a long time, at least back to Bridge 2018. Generating thumbnails when opening new folder takes FOREVER. Seems slighty faster on 2020, but still an annoying drag. As a result I only use Bridge when there is absolutely no other alternative. I'd love to see this fixed!

     

    iMac Pro 2017 | 3.2Ghz 8-Core Xeon W | 64GB 2666 MHz DDR | Catalina 10.15.7

      jbm007
      Community Expert
      jbm007Community Expert
      Community Expert
      March 12, 2021

      Try these setting and see if they help.

      Jim

        CurleyJohnson
        CurleyJohnson
        Participant
        March 12, 2021

        Just tried. It does seem faster: A folder of 9 mp4 files = about 11 seconds, another of 27 mp4s = 23 seconds. I didn't time it before so no direct comparison, but it does feel much improved. I appreciate your suggestion. Thank you!

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          jhzxy
          Participating Frequently
          June 11, 2020

          Running Mohave OS, and Bridge 10.0.4.157 trying to quickly view photos on a server, stored in folders and sub-folders. Everytime I open a new folder, I have to wait 5-10 minutes to see the photos. I don't see any clear instructions on how to set the Bridge preferences to speed things up. I don't need super high-quality thumbnails, I just need to quickly see them so I can choose some options. Adobe please make it faster.

          jbm007
          Community Expert
          jbm007Community Expert
          Community Expert
          June 11, 2020

          It has been noted here many times, that Bridge is not optimized to be used with a NAS or server.

          Matter of fact there is no support for such a workflow.

          Frustrating I know. Not much can be done about it.

           

           

            ~ Gil
            ~ Gil
            Inspiring
            June 6, 2020

            same here, I thought I'ld give it another try, whatever they did to it, they seriously broke this, now unusable software. really too bad because it was an awesome app at one time.

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              jamesatkent
              Participant
              May 10, 2020

              ... me too! And yes - so much for trying the 'legacy' versions- which seem to automatically update to include all of the new problems!

               

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              Felix FeyginAuthor
              Known Participant
              May 10, 2020

              hey, you have the latest bridge? this seems to have fixed itself with the latest update for me... its a weird issue that I saw on both of my pcs but seems ok now

              jbm007
              Community Expert
              jbm007Community Expert
              Community Expert
              May 10, 2020

              Its improved, but its maybe 50% faster over slow.

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                circleMstudios
                Participant
                November 19, 2019

                Same here.  I am running High Sierra on an iMac 27" with 16GB Memory & Adobe Bridge 2020 is USELESS. Takes forever to generate previews, and forget about even trying to view a full screen image. It seems that with each new release, there is an increase in  functionality, but an equal or even greater degradation in performance. The current hardware configuration is exactly what it was prior to Bridge 2020, so that is not likely the issue. This long time Adobe customer may not be for much longer if this persists.  Your move, Adobe. 

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                  rochdale al
                  Known Participant
                  January 30, 2020

                  Same happening with me. Never had a problem before. It's a nightmare out on location when clients need a fast turnaround. Come on Adobe, this should have been fixed by now.

                    stefanoo25118992
                    stefanoo25118992
                    Participant
                    November 16, 2019

                    Yes, same issues ... Bridge 2020 is unusable and ... yes, 2019 inherited  the same slowness. Really frustrating ...

                    100 thumbnails (RAW Sony A7RIII) in 1 minute and 50 seconds.

                    Win 10, I7 8700K, 32 GB, 1060 GTX.

                    Bridge Cache on dedicated SSD M.2, Bridge installation on SSD M.2, Raw files on 4TB HD Sata III.

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                    Phil Lynam
                    Participant
                    November 16, 2019

                    Did you get to the bottom of this? mine is reall bad too – driving me nuts!

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                    Felix FeyginAuthor
                    Known Participant
                    November 10, 2019

                    Tried reinstalling 9.1 and having the same issues. Never had these thumbnail loading issues before, now it looks like 9.1 inherited whatever 10.0 came with. Anyone with similar issues?

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                    timothye37271831
                    Participant
                    November 12, 2019

                    I'm on a Mac running osx High Sierra and having the same problem, though if it were only 3x slower that would be a large improvement. 

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                      Felix FeyginAuthor
                      Known Participant
                      November 12, 2019

                      You're right, 3x might've been generous. I have another thread about it in this forum and someone responded that Bridge 2020 thumb previews are bigger now. I realized that there is no difference in the speed of how thumbnails load if you switch between Preferred Embeded and High Res previews. Its all basically high res from now on it seems. 

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