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Bridge 2022 thumbnail generation super slow on Mac mini M1

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November 28, 2021
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Somehow Bridge generates the thumbnails extremely slow on my Mac Mini M1. Labeling of metadata is also extreme slow. What's going on? I've bought this Mac to support large batches of photo processing but I'd rather go back to my old Macbook Air. Someone knows what to do about this?

Thank you!

Karlijn

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, @Karlijn Karthaus Bridge 13.0.1 offers native M1 suppport, you should upgrade to that version, but be informed that while it supports a modern UI with multiple content tabs, it has for the moment lost the multiple windows feature. It might be wise to keep a copy of V12 if you need that feature.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, you should maybe try the native Apple silicon support in the latest Bridge Beta: https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/an-update-for-the-adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available/td-p/13251390

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hatotoro

Participant

I solved this slow thumbnail building problem by removing all metadata from the images. After removing all metadata informations, Adobe Bridge was creating thumbnails nearly instantly from an external HDD (but of course the metadata is gone now). Still trying to find out which information in the metadata causing this behaviour.

Hope this helps someone.

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Anisha Gupta

Adobe Employee

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Please try updating to ACR 14.3 release, that should fix the issue.

Let us know if you still face the same.

Thanks,

Bridge Team

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Olsson

Participant

No, its not fixed!!!! 🤬

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, this ACR update particularly targets files with a peculiar profile, is it the case for you?

Bridge still needs to be rewritten and recompiled to take advantage of the new M1 processors, but the team might have a reason to delay the code conversion.

OmTillai

Participant

What fixed it for me was going to Bridge Preferences > Advanced > check "Use Software Rendering"

Disables hardeware acceleration which doesnt seem to work right on an M1.

Mine went from a crawl to being super speedy.

Hope that helps.

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Alessandro DellaBitta

Known Participant

Yes, but for what we pay to Adobe we deserve software that works out of the box with the latest technologies.

We do not pay for a workaround and old software, otherwise what is the monthly subscription for?

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chasinf5s

Participating Frequently

The M1 chip has been around for a year and a half now. There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have made a native version as of yet. It's not that great of a program that they couldn't have gotten it out by now.

Juan Rivas

Participating Frequently

Sadly Adobe Bridge is still made for intel processors, I guess it must be running under roseta 2.

Here's an activity monitor screenshot from my MacBook Air M1 running the latest Bridge version (Jan 2022)

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

I suggest for all affected users to vote on the Bridge Uservoice on the thread requesting native M1 support: https://adobebridge.uservoice.com/forums/905323-feature-request/suggestions/44368887-add-arm-version-for-support-apple-silicon-m1-mac

Juan Rivas

Participating Frequently

Temporary Fix.

I tried with preferences:

Camera RAW - Deselect GPU Acceleration

Adobe Bridge - Deselect GPU Acceleration

It works for a while (for me it was like 2 hours and with around 600 images I had to edit). After that it happened again.

I remember Illustrator and Photoshop having the same issue a couple of updates before. Temp solution, disable GPU acceleration, sadly in PS it would disable a lot of filters.

Please let me know if it worked for any of you guys or if it was just luck.

NOTE: Tested on: MacBook Air M1 (8GB) - Working from a 12TB USB 3.0 Seagate Backup Plus Hub. Canon 5Dsr 50MB RAW files.

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struffsky

Known Participant

There might be a problem with ECI-RGB picture on M1. sRGB works fine for me. Se another thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/bridge-11-1-1-on-apple-m1-silicon-processor-with-monterey-is-excruciatingly-slow/m-p/12567816#M31451%3Fprofile.language=de%3Fprofile.language=de%3Fprofile.language=de%3Fprofile.language=de%3Fprofile.language=de%3Fprofile.language=de

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struffsky

Known Participant

Seems that Camera Raw Update 14.3 solved my problems with ECI RGB v2. Bridge runs fine now under rosetta 2.

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WhitneyEQ

Participant

SAME HERE! Very frustrating. Takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to load thumbnails. Then after hours of building all thumbnails, Bridge decides to crash. Which then completley clears the cache, and now has to start all over again, rebuilding ALL the thumbnails again.

I'm running it on a very fast iMac, running Big Sur. Mind boggling.