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May 12, 2026
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Photoshop won't open a photo through Bridge

  • May 12, 2026
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I select my photos in Bridge and open them one at a time to edit them in Photoshop. I can open a few images by double-clicking on them in Bridge, and then suddenly Photoshop doesn’t react anymore when I want to open them. The only thing that helps is forcing Photoshop to stop (because when it happens, I can’t close photoshop the normal way anymore for some reason) and restart it. It gets quite frustrating when I have to do it every four or five photos. 

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    Sameer K
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 12, 2026

    Hey, @Tineke___. Welcome to the Bridge Community. I'll need more info to help you figure this out. Please share a video of this behavior & the version info from Adobe Bridge in the top-left main menu > About Bridge & share the exact version of Bridge. 

     

    Also, as a quick test, try these two things: 

    1 - Ensure Bridge has the required Full Disk Access permissions on macOS: 
    https://adobe.ly/3P0EVrX

    2 - Reinstall Bridge & Photoshop via the Creative Cloud desktop app.


    Thanks!
    Sameer K