Bridge 2021 and Photo Downloader.app

Photo Downloader opens when you’re in Bridge and choose File > Get Photos from Camera. In other words, it’s a direct camera import module that allows pre-processing of files as you import them (by applying presets like file naming and metadata, and auto-organizing into subfolders), kind of like the Import module in Lightroom.

It’s useful, but I don’t use it because I import through Lightroom Classic.

64-bit compatibility might not be a real issue…it’s a little weird. I also ran Go64 and it said Photo Downloader was not 64-bit, but here is the weird thing: I am running macOS 10.15 (Catalina) which is not supposed to allow running 32-bit applications, but Photo Downloader certainly runs on my Catalina Mac, or at least it starts up. So it is possible that Photo Downloader is somehow mislabeled and works anyway.

For reference, here is the official Adobe tech note talking about Bridge compatibility with Big Sur. Photo Downloader is not listed, so maybe it’s OK for Big Sur and Apple Silicon.

https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/bridge-and-macos-big-sur.html

If you want to find Photo Downloader and examine it further, it’s kind of hidden, which is why it doesn’t show up in the macOS System Information app. To find it:

1. In the Applications folder on your Mac, right-click the Adobe Bridge application (not the folder), and choose Show Package Contents. 
2. Dig down into Contents > MacOS. Photo Downloader is there.