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Dave5C4F
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December 28, 2020
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Buggy and slow

  • December 28, 2020
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Hello, I have an iMac, less than a year old. Bridge and photoshop are running at the same speed as on my 12 year old PC.

 

I have updated my OS to 'Big Sur' as well as all my Adobe software hoping that would speed things up.

Now Bridge is not showing some images when browsing the library... sometimes it won't show any images, just blank, black squares.

 

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gary_sc
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gary_scCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 28, 2020

I gather you are new to the Mac universe? Is this your first Mac?

 

Perhaps (and I am guessing here so if I'm wrong, sorry) but I'm going to guess that you didn't supply permission to Bridge or Phtooshop to access any photos on the Desktop or external drives. If none of what I said makes any sense, than you didn't.

 

Please try the following:

Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (last tab). Now click on the lock on the bottom left and provide your Administrator code. Now select the Full Disk Access option and click on the "+" symbol. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window and let you add any application you want or need to have full access. Look for Bridge, select it, it will now appear in that window and make sure it's checked. Next go to the Files and Folders option and do the same thing as above (although there's nothing to check, just add. Close everything down and see if that makes it all work.

Please let me know

 

 

 

 

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Dave5C4FAuthor
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December 29, 2020

Yes, this is my first Mac.... I use it primarily for Photoshop and Bridge (lightroom is installed but not used)... has not been much faster than my 12 year old (problematic) PC.

 
Bridge does have access to all my photos.
 
So, I tried to duplicate the issue and it took a long time to load but it seems to be working OK now.
 
I just sat down to work on some photos... if I have the problem again I let you know.
 
I was watching on the 'Activity Monitor', hoping to see some clue and... the CPU usage (for Bridge) was as high as 288%? That seems strange as I would assume 100% is a maximum for anything no? 
 
Please let me know,
 
Thank you for the speedy reply,
 
Dave
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Lumigraphics
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December 30, 2020

Apple shows up to 100% CPU for each processor core. So a quad-core machine could have 400% CPU usage total and so on.

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