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Adobe Bridge 2023 using 123GB of system memory on macOS

Explorer ,
Dec 14, 2022 Dec 14, 2022

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Last week I posted a thread regarding huge resource spikes when using Adobe Bridge 2023 on macOS:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/averaging-700-800-cpu-usage-on-adobe-bridge-2023/m...

 

A few minutes ago I was greeted with this message regarding my system running out of application memory and my hard drive running out of space (attached). In this case it looks like Adobe Bridge was using 123.22GB of memory. 

 

Again, any insights as to why this is happening and what I could do to prevent it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Adobe Employee , May 21, 2023 May 21, 2023

Thanks for providing feedback. From our initial investigation, either the Bridge cache is missing the required permissions or may have been corrupted.

 

Could you try the below steps and confirm if this helps the issue that you are facing:

 

  1. Quit Bridge if it is running.
  2. Go to /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Adobe/Bridge/Cache folder
  3.  Rename v36 folder to v36_backup 
  4.  Launch Bridge again

 

Regards,

Navkamal

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New Here , Nov 03, 2023 Nov 03, 2023

You're skirting around the real problem. The resource management of the latest versions of Bridge is terrible. If you want to fix the issue, rewrite it from scratch.

Until last month, I used Bridge on a 2014 Mac with the same resources. OSX Sierra and Bridge 2019.
Bridge was fast. I keep several tabs opened, switching and copying from one to others and creating thumbnails up to 5GB. I always had several apps opened. Bridge NEVER went out from application memory.
Now, I tried all available versions

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 05, 2023 Nov 05, 2023

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Same problem with MacStudio on Ventura 13.6.1; 64 GB RAM. Bridge 2023 almost killed my Mac – filling up 230 GB with just nothing but??? I immediately removed  it and will not use it again. I am glad I am already PhotoMechanic for years...

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Explorer ,
Nov 05, 2023 Nov 05, 2023

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I have not had the problem in a while, not since a few weeks after I reported it here initially. What I did as a workaround is to just quit Bridge after every time I use it.

 

My latest problem is with the Photoshop tool bar disappearing, but that's for another day and another thread.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 11, 2024 Jan 11, 2024

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I'm having the same issues and not running bridge is the only way I've been able to solve this stupid problem.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 11, 2024 Jan 11, 2024

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I'm on a 2021 Apple M1 Pro, running Sonoma Version 14.0 and Bridge 14.0.1 and I just had a system notification that I ran out of disk space and the pop up window showed Bridge was using 75GB of space. This has gotten out of hand.

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New Here ,
Jan 16, 2024 Jan 16, 2024

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Same here. Brand new M2 mac Studio Ultra with 128 gb of ram. New install of everything.  

Currently on Sonoma 14.2.1 . Bridge version 14.01.137

 

This NEVER  happened on my older iMac 27" with 64 gb of ram with that system running Ventura 13.4.1 (c)

 

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New Here ,
Feb 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024

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The problem with "renaming the folder " is that when you launch bridge again , it re writes another "v36 folder" and the problem keeps happening - how do you make the usable folder , the one you told us to re wrtie ?

 

is there a terminal prompt we can use ? this kills our entire sytem and has to shut down

 

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