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Peter_B__Bailey
Inspiring
May 6, 2013
Question

Bridge keeps crashing on me.

  • May 6, 2013
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It's very disconcerting. Bridge is continually crashing on me. I open up a folder with a lot of images in it in Bridge and it just crashes. This can go on 5 or 6 times until I just give up. Any ideas? If I reinstall it, using Creative Cloud, I guess I have to uninstall it first. Then, I have to re-install either InDesign or Illustrator, I forget which. So, because of that, I'll need to unintall Illustrator or InDesign, too. Right?

Thanks.

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    Dominic310
    Dominic310
    Participating Frequently
    March 7, 2016

    Unfortunately everyone above went the wrong direction with the fix. The fix is very simple! it is a source code bug within bridge and El capitan or earlier versions.

    HOW TO FIX:

    1. open system preferences
    2. go to mission control
    3. uncheck: Displays have separate Spaces
    4. restart comp

    This should immediately fix any crashing issues in Bridge on a mac

    Have a good day!

    Dominic

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      pinkzappa
      New Participant
      March 15, 2016

      This works !!!

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        Anonymous
        May 6, 2013

        An unistall rarely solves problems.  But before an solutions can be offered we need to know a little more.

        WHat OS?  How much RAM?  Is your video driver up to date?  Do you have the latest version of Bridge installed?  (click on Help - updates).

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        Peter_B__BaileyAuthor
        Inspiring
        May 6, 2013

        Sorry about that. Yeh. I'm on a beautiful iMac, latest generation, OSX 10.8.3. The latest Creative Cloud apps. I've got 32gB of RAM. I just checked my Cloud apps for updates and I just installed a DPS Desktop Tools update. That was all there was. I don't know about video drivers. I've never had to tweak them on my Mac.

        Omke Oudeman
        Omke Oudeman
        Participating Frequently
        May 6, 2013

        I'm on a beautiful iMac, latest generation, OSX 10.8.3. The latest Creative Cloud apps. I've got 32gB of RAM

        Assuming you also have enough free space on your disk (at least 10 %) the specs should be sufficient. Try starting bridge holding down option key and choose reset preferences and purge central cache, then try again.

        If no luck delete both Bridge cache and plist file from the user library 9hidden by default, use menu go with option key to reveal)

        Quit Bridge and go to:

        user/ library/ caches / Adobe/ Bridge CS6/ cache. inhere delete both the plug in and cache folder

        same library/preferences inhere find and delete the com.adobebridge5.plist and restart bridge holding down again option key with reset prefs.

        If still no success the crash report might be an option.

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