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Can't start Bridge 2024 or 2025 without crashing

Advocate ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

OSX 13.7.1.

 

I don't use Bridge much, but wanted to check a few things out this morning & found that both 2024 and 2025 are crashing when starting up. It looks like it's doing so just before loading images or the rest of the interface or something.

 

2024 asked me if I wanted to add two scripts this morning, which I did; when that wouldn't start up, I installed 2025, which has the same problem, so wondering if something in those two scripts did it.

 

That said, I can't find the startup scripts. Unfortunately the Adobe article I saw only showed how to activate/deactivate them from within Bridge.

 

Any help appreciated!

 

 

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Explorer ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

Same thing here, Beta, 25 and 24 all not opening. 

 

Running Mac Sequoia 15.01

 

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

Hi @turner111 , @Herbiedriver1 , 

 

Thanks for reporting this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience caused to you. To further investigate the issue, could you help with the following:

  • Have you installed the Photoshop BETA along with the Adobe Bridge?
  • If yes,
    • Can you try moving the Substance3DViewerForPs.plugin present at the location “/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CC/File Formats”, to another location and then relaunch the Bridge?
    • And/ Or, can you try uninstalling the PS BETA and check if you are still facing the crash?

 

We have a known issue with latest Substance3DViewer plugin which is causing Bridge to crash. More details about this issue and workaround is at : https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/bridge-crashes-when-used-with-photoshop-beta.html

 

Thanks,

Bridge team

 

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Advocate ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

Hi Varun,

I don't have the Photoshop Beta installed.

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

Thanks @turner111 - Thanks for the quick reply. Could you check whether you have the Substance3DViewerForPS plugin by any chance at the location “/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CC/File Formats”?

 

If not, then I request you submit the crash report mentioning your email address to us once you encounter the crash. In case you are not getting the crash dialog (post crash) to submit the report, please check the path "/Users/<username>/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports" if there is any crash log generated. If yes, please send the file to sharewithbr@adobe.com

This will help us to investigate the issue further.

 

Thanks,

Bridge team

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Advocate ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

I don't have a PlugIns folder at that location.

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 12, 2024 Dec 12, 2024

Hello @turner111 


As there are two "Adobe" folders on a machine, one is user level and another is system level. There is a possibility that you might be checking the user level folder. Please follow the below steps just to make sure we are looking in the correct folder:

 

  1. Open Finder
  2. Go to top menu. "Go" -> "Go to Folder..."
  3. Enter "/Library/Application Support/Adobe"
  4. Locate "Plugins" folder here.

 

Please let me know if this helped in locating the right folder.

 

Thanks,

Bridge Team

 

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Advocate ,
Dec 13, 2024 Dec 13, 2024

Yes, it's in there. Bridge started normally after moving the Substance3DViewerForPS plugin out of the folder.

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Adobe Employee ,
Dec 23, 2024 Dec 23, 2024

Hi ,

 

We have addressed the issue mentioned in Bridge 15.0.2

We would love for you to try it out and share your feedback.

For more details on build kindly refer to https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/adobe-bridge-15-0-2-is-now-available/td-p/15048927

 

Regards,

Bridge Team

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Advocate ,
Dec 24, 2024 Dec 24, 2024

Thanks Ashmit-

Unfortunately, I no longer need Bridge, as the single feature I was hoping to use (web gallery) has been removed.

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Explorer ,
Sep 05, 2025 Sep 05, 2025

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HI all,

I use bridge everyday for my design work its necessary for easier workflow, but about a week ago or a bit more it started to crash... Just soon after Illustrator stopped crashing 😄 and I figured to use an older version of Dreamweaver to stop crashing...

I tried with bridge that too but it doesn't help.

I use windows 11 since July I think and had no issue until now.

Symptoms:
I open Bridge and after a few seconds this appears

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How many reports do I have to send so this will be resolved ? 😄
Anyone any tips?
Cheers!

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Sep 05, 2025 Sep 05, 2025
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Explorer ,
Sep 05, 2025 Sep 05, 2025
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it doesn't do anything the Error window still come up and no reset window as mentioned unfortunately.

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