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November 15, 2022
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Bridge 2023 - Thumbnails and Previews not generated for large files

  • November 15, 2022
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Bridge 2023 (version 13.0.0.562) not generating thumbnails or previews for files larger than 1GB even though I have the threshold set at 5GB. After purging the cache and restarting it still doesn't work.

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Participating Frequently
July 30, 2024

Is anyone from Adobe going to respond to this topic and say "we have listened to you over many years" and we have finally fixed the issue??? It is so frustrating as I love Bridge and can't understand why 1GB is an issue with thumbnail generation.

Inspiring
July 30, 2024

Not sure if this is a complete solution but...

Preferences / Thumbnails / Performance and File Handling / 

Set the first line "Do No Process Files Larger than XXXX MB"  I set it to 1800 and am getting thumbnails for larger files.  Once I close and restart Bridge that is.  

Participating Frequently
July 30, 2024

Thank you so much. This worked. Much appreciated. 

New Participant
July 8, 2024

same issue in 2024. It just started happening randomly for me on an idle tuesday where it wouldn't show any previews. I went in and manually gave Bridge access in security settings becausee somehow that got reset.   I've since reinstalled, updated my OS and Bridge. Purged and repurged caches...cranked up the thumbnail genersation size. Plenty of ram I think. Very frusterating as an issue persists now where I can't get any previews now for files above a GB. I don't know where the problem lies. 

New Participant
July 8, 2024
I gave up using this useless piece of software months ago.
Participating Frequently
July 8, 2024

ditto, I've accepted my fate and now use Eagle for viewing. See my note above about the misery this requires

New Participant
October 2, 2023

Still having the same issue and it's October... Please fix

New Participant
August 27, 2023

this is so annoying and makes bridge USELESS. We pay a lot for Adobe apps and this is unacceptable.

Participating Frequently
August 28, 2023

I second this! do your jobs please

Participating Frequently
August 10, 2023

years and years and years 😞  can anybody recommend an alternative?

Participating Frequently
August 10, 2023

Eagle.cool is better than Bridge, enjoy 🙂

Participating Frequently
August 28, 2023

ugh, Eagle is proving to be it's own nightmare, sorry folks. You have to copy in all your assets BUT then you can't edit them there or things get messy so, if you do not edit any of your assets (as if) you'll love Eagle, if not, 

Any other suggestions?

New Participant
February 20, 2023

Same. Really lagging or not loading at all, and my machine is more than capable. 

New Participant
February 7, 2023

This behaviour of Bridge having problems generating previews has been reported for YEARS... and here we are.

It really puzzles me why we cannot have an option to force the creation of the thumbnail.

Is it really that hard?

Does anybody know an alternative software that performs this media function?

I have tried Irfanview, but it is really slow...

Inspiring
November 24, 2022

Ditto

New Participant
January 27, 2023

Having same issue, has it been addressed as of 20230124 ?

New Participant
November 17, 2022

same problem...