Constant CPU usage in Bridge 2023 (macOS)

Report · May 22, 2023

I've noticed that Adobe Bridge 2023 has a constant CPU usage, reported by the Activity Monitor between 100-300% (sometimes even more). Most of the time it's at 180%.

That's in idle, so no images are being opened, selected, no folder is changed, all previews have been generated,...

Meanwhile Photoshop uses well below 2% in idle.

Does Bridge create an index in the background? If so - how can I turn that off?
If Bridge always uses CPU ressources that will cause unnecessary battery drain and will slow down other applications for no reason at all.

Again: this is in idle.

Report · May 22, 2023

Please check this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/adobe-bridge-2023-using-123gb-of-system-memory-on-...

Report · May 22, 2023

Thanks but that's an entirely differnt issue and the proposed solution does not work for that.

This is not about memory usage but CPU usage.

Report · May 22, 2023

An intersting development:

Closing the folder panel stops the high CPU usage. After that CPU usage in idle is down to 1.4%!!!!

However that leaves me without a decent, fast navigation so it's not a solution at all.

I assume Bridge is trying to read/access other parts of the opened folder strucutre, almost like building an index. Totally useless and deifnitely not what the developers had in mind but that's what's happening here.

Report · May 22, 2023

So today it started with high CPU usage again, I turned the folder panel on and off again - and it stopped.

Then I closed Bridge and opened it gain and I got high CPU usage again

This is pretty absurd.

I don't know what else to do with this application, it's really very annoying and unusable for mobile work.

EDIT: So something else that seems to help - and I have no idea why - is to scroll completely up and down in the Content panel of your opened folder...

This is very bizarre.