Bridge has trouble deleting files and generating thumbnails

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September 29, 2025
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Updated to the latest version although the issues has been around for months.

Thumbnail generation: it just lingers inside a folder with raw files and does nothing or takes forever before generating thumbnails even if there are two or three of those.

It sometimes hangs when it has to delete a few files.

I remember it was very snappy a few years ago and wondering why it got this worse.

Does anyone having the same issues? Hints?

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ExUSA

Legend

Try purging cache for that folder.

giovannia98509741Author

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I tried everything (purging cache, CTRL+Alt+Shift on startup) but it keeps behaving erratically (very slow when creating thumbnails, freezes when deleting files).

I tried rebooting the PC in safe mode and launching Bridge: it warned that GPU (nVidia 1030 card) had to be deactivated (or something like that) and it seemed to be fast again.
When I reboot in normal mode it SOMETIMES seems to work ok but eventually reverts to sluggish mode.

Tried enabling "Software rendering" in the settings but it doesn't seem to do much of a difference.

Purging folders cache is a hit and miss and it takes forever.

It is pretty unusable...

Win11 24H2,Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.19 GHz, 32GB, NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 1030

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ExUSA

Legend

Bridge uses hardware acceleration but with an older video card, its going to be kind of slow. Also, if photos are on network drives then performance can be bad.

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