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Slow Thumbnail generation on M1 Mac.

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
August 21, 2021
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I upgraded to a new Mac M1 mini running Big Sur It had 8 gigs of ram. It CRANKED out the thumbnails, for maybe a month. no idea really. Then it started chugging. I figured it was having issues with paging or ram, so I upgraded to a 16 Mac M1 Mini. Takes forever still.

I'm astonished how blazing fast it was for those first few weeks. Why would it suddenly get crappy especially if I upgraded the memory?

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PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, Bridge 13.0.1 offers native M1 suppport, you should upgrade to that version, but be informed that while it supports a modern UI with multiple content tabs, it has for the moment lost the multiple windows feature. It might be wise to keep a copy of V12 if you need that feature.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hello, in addition to the ACR fix, I suggest users like @Donovan Rittenbach @1R0NM4N or @Karlijn Karthaus to try the latest BETA version of Bridge that offers native Apple Silicon support:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/an-update-for-the-adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available/td-p/13251390

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Anisha Gupta

Adobe Employee

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Please try updating to ACR 14.3 release, that should fix the issue.

Let us know if you still face the same.

Thanks,

Bridge Team

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Hi, Donovan, I think we should split the discussion as you are running an M1 mac, and for the moment, it is running in Rosetta emulation, if I'm not mistaken, therefore, a performance hit has to be expected...

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Donovan RittenbachAuthor

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It was weird because it was so damn responsive for like the first couple of days at least. Like instant thumbnail generation. Then back to turtleville. Alright let me know how to proceed.

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Donovan RittenbachAuthor

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Oh and I'd like to add I open up a folder with 12 icons. it is taking I would say 10 seconds to generate one thumbnail. This is UTTERLY worthless.

I could highlight the photo in the finder, and hit the space bar to get a preview, then use my arrow cursor to go down through my files to preview super fast.

I've purged my media caches using the app and manually. Use Grand Perspective to view your disk and get a map, locate your media cache files. It's usually a whole crapton of them, then you delete the whole folder. It's in your library.

When did Bridge become so unusable? Is this just me? It was NEVER like this. It's gotta be a Rosetta issue or something right?

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Anisha Gupta

Adobe Employee

Hi @Donovan Rittenbach

Thanks for your feedback. Sorry to hear about the issue.

Could you please share the following details about the issue:

- Bridge Version in use.

- System configuration

- Is this happening for particular files/formats?

- Preview settings in use

Please share the sample files at sharewithbr@adobe.com.

Thanks,

Bridge Team

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Donovan RittenbachAuthor

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I am using Bridge 2021. I am running Big Sur on an imac mini, the new M1 chipset. It's happening for jpgs...no particular file format.

Not sure what you mean by preview settings. They're default as far as I know.

I have submitted sample images. They are just screenshots taken with the MacOS utility. Any JPG seems to have an issue.

The time to generate a preview is easily 3s-30s. I'll sit there waiting for them to generate and it just takes forever.

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