Adobe Bridge 12.01 .246 FREE VERSION IS RUNNING ULTRA ULTRA SLOW ON Mac OS Big Sur 11.6.2

Report · Jan 25, 2022

Dear comunity can you please help. bridge is runnig so very very slow. it takes up to 20 minutes fto laode 140 picture (most not bigger than 3 mb, most 400 kb) so not higfe pictures, small sizes. the olde version (very olde version that runs on an older mac) is doing the job extra fast and quick. any idea what i can do or change... i only nee bridge to see picture. and rename tham and make a comment. nothing more. THANK you for any idea or help: Adobe Bridge 12.01 .246 FREE VERSION IS RUNNING ULTRA ULTRA SLOW ON Mac OS Big Sur 11.6.2

best greetings,

martin

Report · Jan 26, 2022

Hi Martin,

Thanks for reaching out! We are sorry for the trouble with Bridge’s performance.

We are here to help you out. Could you please confirm the storage location of the images that you are browsing through, are they stored on internal drive or external hard drive/network drives? Does this happen with all the documents or just a particular set of photos or folders? Please share the system info of your macOS computer from choose Apple icon menu > About This Mac along with the info under the Storage tab.

Please try the following steps to try and optimize Bridge for better performance.

Go to Adobe Bridge > Preferences from the top left, near the Apple Icon.
Go to Advanced and try enabling Use Software Rendering option if it is not enabled. Please restart and compare the overall performance again.

Thumbnails are part of the caches that Bridge creates. For more steps to optimize Bridge’s Cache management, please check here: Work with the Adobe Bridge cache

Please let us know if this helps you out!

Regards,

Sameer K.