Bridge takes forever to load thumbnails

Interesting.

I'm on a 2015 5K iMac and the 2022 Bridge is blazingly fast to load thumbnails that are located on my hard drive or external drive. I've used Bridge since v. 1 and this is the fastest yet. 

I'm not discounting your observations but since we are seeing such vastly different results, shall we see if we can locate what the issue or problem is?

For starters, please go to Tools (menu) -> Cache -> Manage Cache…, then follow this:

Next, please rebuild your permissions:

First, quit Bridge (if open). Then, when launching Bridge, press Command-Option (Mac)/Control-Alt (Win) + Shift to choose “Reset Preferences”, Purge Entire Thumbnail Cache”, and/or Reset Standard Workspaces.” In your case, chose "Reset Preferences."

And lastly, here is the setup for previewing your thumbnails, please mimic these settings:

I cannot say that doing all this WILL fix the issue(s), but it does help in ruling out possible issues.

i have the same problem with adobe bridge. Bridge no longer shows folder contents. The problem can be solved in the short term by deinstallation and reinstallation. As soon as I call up a certain folder, Bridge can no longer display the contents of this folder and as a result the contents of all (!!!) other servers / folders remain invisible. It´s like Groundhog Day: deinstallation / installation and everything all over again. Furthermore, the bridge can no longer be closed, except with command / alt / esc ... Operating system BigSur 11.6 Does anyone know of a similar problem and solutions?