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sjk1231
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March 11, 2020
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Adobe Bridge - storage limits

  • March 11, 2020
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I am curious to how much storage Adobe Bridge has? I am needing to store a lot of photos and videos on it.

    Correct answer Lumigraphics

    Bridge is a file browser. It just shows you what is on your hard drives.

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    double_adobe
    Inspiring
    April 18, 2021

    Bridge is not "just a file browser." For each image file in a folder it generates up to three derivative files, depending on your settings: a preview image, a 100 percent preview image, and a thumbnail image. These are stored in a central cache folder that can take up considerable space, or can be stored "locally" (in the same folders as the images being browsed). Previous versions of Bridge limited the number of cache files to 500,000. Bridge 2021 (Version 11) limits the cache size to around 52 gigabytes. The upshot of all this is that for folders with thousands of large image files, it can take days for Bridge to generate a complete set of thumbnails and previews. To keep under the 52 GB (or 500,000-file) limit, Bridge will occasionally delete an entire folder of cache files, which can make for very slow folder browsing as well as cause a lot of disk churn and long save times in your storage array.

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      Lumigraphics
      Legend
      January 31, 2022

      You can set the cache size to zero. Also, both Windows and Mac use caching extensively, its a part of modern system design. Without caches, everything would be slooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww.

      And, yes, it IS just a file browser. That's precisely what Bridge does. Lightroom is a database-driven image manager and guess what, it uses caching extensively- hundreds of gigabytes if you have a big library.

      Finally, no, Bridge doesn't take days to generate a cache, even from a large folder. I use Bridge in production and that's just flat-out false.

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      Lumigraphics
      Legend
      December 20, 2022

      >Its difficult to make recommendations if you jump into someone else's thread but don't tell us what you need.

      I didn't ask for tool recommendation, though. I only got tempted to state that folderless isn't as bad as a fellow poster stated.

      Yeah I know and have tested several of these Cloud DAMs. Such tools usually have a hefty monthly price tag and do little that actually helps us. This whole user-rights management and trivial format conversion resizing is pointless for our small team – a simple (locally synced) cloud service as the backbone works just fine*. With a cloud DAM we would still need Bridge to batch-process files in Photoshop.

      *I know that you now say that Bridge doesnt't work with Cloud involved – but there are ways to deal with this. 


      Ok I'm confused about why you are posting. Are you looking for help? Or do you just want to vent?

      Just Shoot Me
      Just Shoot Me
      Legend
      March 11, 2020

      Absolutely None. Bridge is a Free program that does not need the user to subscribe to any subscription plan.

      It is also just a File Browser, File Manager.

      It can not do any edits to any file, other than standards File Manager task, without some other program like PS, CR, ID and so on. And even then 99% of the time it only Send whatever file to one of those programs. It does Not edit them itself.

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      LumigraphicsCorrect answer
      Legend
      March 11, 2020

      Bridge is a file browser. It just shows you what is on your hard drives.

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