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[I keep finding problems with Bridge 2020 w.r.t. Bridge CS5 almost on a daily basis - un upgrade it aint] This is a relatively minor bug but dangerous when emptying the main drive Trash (MacOs Mojave).  The more serious problem of file deletion in Bridge is being discussed on other threads. Each external drive has its own trash (/Volumes/<drive>/.Trashes) whereas there is the main drive user trash (/Users/<user>/.Trash). When Bridge is deleting a file on an external drive, it moves it to the user's local trash. This is not good for a number of reasons:1. If you don't know this behaviour and empty your local trash - you have unwittingly permanently deleted files on external drives;2. It would eat up storage on local drive which is more precious than external drives: A file deletion remainig on the same drive has no net storage cost - deleting a 1 GB file does not result in an additional 1 GB being used up on that drive - whereas moving the file

Since the Bridge 2026 update, dragging a Finder folder directly onto the application's icon in the Dock no longer works. It was quite convenient. Has anyone else noticed this?

All of the sudden, after a day of regular work, Bridge 16 stopped letting rename files or assign stars or labels. When I click on the name field of the file it seems disabled. My Mac runs on 15.7.2 . I tried updating OS, tried uninstalling and installing Bridge again. The disc access is granted in the security settings. What should I do to resolve?

This is my second post about this. Yesterday morning Bridge (2026, on MacBook Pro M5 with Tahoe) stopped working. It begins to lauch, the menu bar appears, but then nothing else. If you try to use a menu, for example the "about Bridge" or anything that would call up something on the screen, nothing hasppens and the menus all grey out. Then you have to use force quit to cloe down. I've tried everything I see on hte web to no avail. If I hold the coamn/optio/shift keys I get a window that  allows me to choose emptying cache and/or deleting presents (nothing about startup files) but doing that doesn't alter the results. I starting from teh finder insteard of the doc, but the same things happen. Any ideas?  Ed Merrin

Hi Adobe Community,I can't uninstall the old version of Adobe Bridge, v: 9.1.  It doesn't appear in Creative Cloud and also doesn't appear in the list in Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.  It does not appear in Windows 11 uninstall or Revo Uninstaller, and Revo Forced Uninstall doesn't find it.  Is there any way to remove this old version?  Thanks.Zaffer

Anything I search for in the Adobe Bridge quick search (in the top right of the app) yeilds zero results. I'm trying to search terms in my Sound Effects library. No matter what I search, no items are found. If I search a term in the general File Explorer (outside of the Bridge app) I get results.  I've unistalled and reinstalled Bridge. Still not working. I've downloaded the beta version of Bridge. Still not working. 

BonjourJe n'arrive pas à ouvrir les fichiers présents sur mon NAS DS218J. Le fichier apparait avec un cadenas en haut à droit, sans affichage de l'aperçu.Avez-vous une solution ?Merci

In the Folders section of Bridge, "This PC" and subsequent folders are listed twice; duplicated.  I'm using the current version of Bridge and have reinstalled twice, to no avail.  Microsoft File Explorer and other like apps work Ok, no duplicated trees. Any thoughts?  

I couldn't found how to disable mandatory use of Ctrl key combined with a digit (e.g. Ctrl+1) for rating files in the latest version of Bridge. Since I use ratings very often, it's very uncomfortable to press 2 keys instead of one. Adobe team, do restore the checkbox, please!

I'm extremely frustrated that despite extensive online research, including Google, YouTube, and the Adobe community forums, I've been unable to resolve this issue. While editing hundreds of photos in Adobe Bridge, I've noticed that as soon as I apply a rating star (1, 2, 3, etc.) to an image, it inexplicably moves to the very bottom of the non-rated photos. This forces me to constantly search to find where I left off and locate the image I had previously selected and rated.  

Yesterday I discovered that the Keywords list in Bridge 16.0 (2026) was totally empty! Before that I assigned keywords on November 6th latest (probably even on November 9th). I checked the XML file in users\..appdata\roaming etc, but the file size was just 1KB and it had no keywords in it. When checking the 2025 and 2024 XML files, I saw they too were empty. How can I recover the keywords I used until November 6th or November 9th? I updated Bridge from 2025 to 2026 about a week ago.   

I do not wish to have Bridge continue making these files and am curious about how to disable them? I am the only one who uses Bridge in a pipeline and do not want to manually delete the file after every project

Hallo,Datum ändern= OK. Bei der Zeit kann man sich nur in AM bewegen. PM-Schalter nicht vorhanden, wie in der Hilfe angezeigt. Eine Zeitgrößer als 12 Uhr wird nicht angenommen.

I like testing out the Beta of Photoshop, but I don't always want to use it as sometimes it feels a little laggy and I don't want to have to go in and set up all my brushes and workspace and stuff. Unfotunately, Bridge always defaults file type associations to the Beta version. Is there a way to change every file type association to the regular release of photoshop at once or a way to exclude the beta version of a program? If not, there should be. 

Seriously, I need help! I cannot remember well but I tried to do arrangements where my downloads go to (it is stupid that I cannot choose where I import files using Airdrop). As a result, I have a Downloads folder which appears and works fine at the Finder level. However, Adobe Bridge 18.0 is not able to show that folder: In Bridge, there is a strange icon as if there were a file icon above a folder icon! Even though its name is Downloads and it contains files normally in Finder, Bridge doesn't show any files in that "hybrid icon" folder. Eventually, I deleted Bridge by the CleanMyMac app and downloaded and installed a new one. Before, I booted my MBP M2. No avail! The strange icon is still there in Bridge and its corresponding one is nicely in Finder, without any strange icons! What can I do to get Bridge working as supposed??? Tahoe 26.1, MBP M2, 32MB, 1TB.

Bridge keeps crashing when I click on Downloads in the Favorites window (it does briefly begin populating the files from the Downloads folder). I can right click on Downloads and Reveal Folder works fine, opens the Download folder window and can see/open my files. To see if other folders worked, I clicked on Documents in the Favorites window, opens fine, and I can open my files from here and does not crash. I thought maybe I needed to reconnect the Downloads in Favorites, so I Removed the Downloads folder from the Favorites window, then went to the Folders tab > Computer > Macintosh HD > Users > MeTheUser > Downloads > Add to Favorites. Went back to Favorites > Downloads and it still shuts down.I also opened the Downloads folder from the Folders tab, going the path in the previous paragraph - still, briefly populates Bridge with images, then Bridge crashes. And lastly, I added a folder that's inside the Downloads folder as a Favorite. This folder ope

Bridge keeps shutting down when I click on Downloads in the Favorites window (it does briefly begin populating the files from the Downloads folder). I can right click on Downloads and Reveal Folder works fine, opens the Download folder window and can see all my files. To see if other folders worked, I clicked on Documents in the Favorites window, opens fine, and I can open my files from here. I thought maybe I needed to reconnect the Downloads in Favorites, so I Removed the Downloads folder from the Favorites window, then went to the Folders tab > Computer > Macintosh HD > Users > MeTheUser > Downloads > Add to Favorites. Went back to Favorites > Downloads and it still shuts down. I also opened the Downloads folder from the Folders tab, going the path in the previous paragraph - still, briefly populates Bridge with images, then Bridge crashes. I did a Reset preferences, reset the default workspace, and purge the cache, still no luck in solving t

Good afternoon, first time around here, My preview panel not showing selected thumbnail, any ideas why?

Hi, When I try to renamle and move some XQD memory cards (240GB) to an SSD things get very slow (since a couple of versions of Bridge). Performance of the card reader and disc is fine outside Bridge. Tried every solution (clear caches regularly, do not generate yhumbnails for files greater than 1 mb,... ).  It take for ages before the dialog box pops up for calculating the time and when he finally has calculated the time, it take another age for the warning "are you sure you want to move the read only file". Once it starts the batch rename/move proced performace is acceptable. It has to do with the tasks before. Any suggestions ? I am not interested in the thumbnails, I just want to move the files to an SSD from memory card and do the processing in lightroom. Lightroom is suitable for renaming the files how I want...  

When using photo downloader, all the images are not showing up. I need to "refresh list" in order for the correct number of files on the card to be downloaded. If one is not paying attention to the number of files on the card, this could result in HUNDREDS of images not being "found."  Holy major bug, Batman! FIX THIS, please. See video of attached behavior: Bridge 14.0.1.1372023 Macbook Pro with M2Mac OS 14.1.2Nikon Z8 NEF files

Bonjour,Est-il possible de demander dans Bridge d'inscrire les mots clés dans le fichier photo JPG et non sur un fichier associé à la photo ?Merci

I recently updated Bridge, and now files no longer open in photosop with a double click.  I have to right click and use "open with".  All my file assosictions are  set correctly and photoshop is set as default to open files, so that is not the issue.   Bridge 2025 Version: 15.0.0.397 Mac OS: Sonoma 14.7 How do I fix this?    

Hi there! I have a ton of files in a folder that I would like to add on the prefix "Machine_".   For example: Old: 482_PartyBus New: "Machine_482_PartyBus"   I don't see a way of doing it in Bridge. Any suggestions? Thanks!!

Good morning. The Bridge and Photoshop versions have been updated to V2026. I uninstalled Photoshop version 2025. Now, when I double-click to open a photo in the new Photoshop in Bridge, an error message appears saying that it cannot find version 2025 and the file won't open in the new version. It only opens if I right-click and select "open with Photoshop 2026". Can you help me, please? Thank you. Fernando

I am seeing a little stop sign to the side of some images' labels . I would like to know what it is and how to remove it. I believe that it is preventing me from exporting the image to Lightroom for further editing. Thanks.