Using Bridge on an Apple M1 machine is still terrible

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.

Hi, You might have missed the latest announcement about the October Beta Bridge version that offers native M1 (apple Silicon) support: https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/an-update-for-the-adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available/td-p/13251390

I have considered dumping Bridge, but have not found a better alternative (with the exception of Adobe Lightroom). It is so slow when working with large batches of image and video media files, especially with metadata editing. It seems it can't edit metadata until it creates the file thumbnails—or is it the previews? Generating large batches of file thumbnails uses a lot of cache. One batch I attempted totaled 4300 files at 96 Gb. There is my first bottleneck. Large fast SSDs help, but Bridge must still render each thumbnail and preview associated with each media file into the cache—then overwrite some of it when resources are short. When processing files Bridge must create a scratch pad of data outside of that cache that also is limited in size. When that is full and all the data is needed for the current process, none can be deleted until the process is finished with it. That is a probable cause of Bridge freezes—not enough scratch pad space... A larger HDD or SSD is needed. The M1 pro chip should help with the speed of rendering and data crunching, but other system resources also play their part. 

Hi @GhostKingsley ,

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

Update on this. After seeing a comment elsewhere about color space being an issue, I experimented with converting a troublesome folder to sRGB using Save for Web. It seems to have done the trick, though it is not a fix – more of a workaround. 

For clarity, the images I found troublesome had all been shot on an iPhone 11 for eBay upload. 

Hope this is of some small help to others while Adobe gives us a proper Silicon update for Bridge.