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October 1, 2024
Question

Bridge not showing files and folders when they are added

  • October 1, 2024
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I'm a long time Bridge User, and for the last several months I've been fustrated by Bridge not properly updating the list of files in a folder. 
For instance I'll have a folder with 5-6 images my client needs me to retouch. If I work on the file and save a copy to the same folder a majority of the time Bridge will not update to show the new files. The same goes if I move or copy more files into a folder either via Bridge, or manually in the Finder. 
Quite often the only way I can get it to properly update is to quit and re-launch. 
Anyone else seeing this?
And even more importantly, any solutions?
BTW this has persisted across several updates etc and is the same behavior for the release as well as the Beta version of Bridge. 

2 replies

zebra7228140
Inspiring
October 27, 2025

YES!~ Constantly quitting Bridge and relaunching to see thumbnail updates to new files or edited works --- it is a flaw of Bridge.  I am on a M1 Ultra Mac Studio with 8TB of SSD  and 128 GB RAM on Sequoia. This has been a problem for a while. Quitting and relaunching Bridge is my only solution. I work on files kept on a Raid Promise Pegasus... but there is a central local cache repository on the HD. This wasn't the case when I kept my cache for each folder in that particular folder. As it is now, its as if teh Cache gets rebuit every time I make a file edit. I hope Adobe will adderress this. I haven't changed my working arrangement in a decade and this did not used to be th ecase with Bridge - no matter how many files were in a folder.

gary_sc
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 1, 2024

Need for info; sorry for all the questions. 

 

Where are these files located? Is the storage device a network or a NAS drive? Have you tried to move the file onto your computer itself and do the same symptoms occur?

 

What is your OS, and what is the release? What release of Bridge are you using?

 

Have you done the required "permissions" for your OS to access these files?

Community Expert
October 1, 2024

The files are located on local drives connected to my system. 
My current OS is OSX 14.3 (Sonoma)
Adobe Bridge Beta version is 15.0.0.369
Bridge Release version: 14.12.300
As far as I can tell all the appropriate permissions have been granted. 
Again, I've used Bridge for 20 some years. Only in this last year has this issue become apparent. And about 25% of the time it will work as expected, then revert and no longer show me the new/updated list of files in a given folder. 

 

Legend
October 2, 2024

I am not seeing this particular problem. I still use Bridge 12 for production because in my testing, Bridge 14/15 is unusable for even moderate numbers of files. I was working on several thousand images at once and couldn't even scroll the content window, it was so bad with the stutters and beachballs. So you may need to be patient and wait for Bridge to process operations if you have more than a small number of images showing.

I do recommend updating macOS to either 14.7 or the new Sequoia 15.0 release.