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Dear Sandra,
You may never look at your posts again concerning the issue of your CS6-Bridge running slow. I too am experiencing the same problem a year and 6-months later. I am sorry many of those who responded to you did not have the answer to the problem that plaques you and I. I have read all of your posts compleletly hoping to find that someone had the smarts to solve this problem. "Well, I am that person!" I took the time to solve what Adobe needed to tell end users. Adobe should compensate me for this answer.
Here it goes.
You may not like the solution, because it stinks and reverts me and my super computer back to the 32-bit days, however it works!
1.Go to the icon that start the CS6 Bridge on you computer. Preferablely, use the icon under the "Start Button" in the "All Programs" tray. Use this icon because it will effect all other icons no matter where they are located on your computer.
2. "Right Click" on the icon and travel down and click on "Properties". This box will appear.
Select the "Compatibility" tab and set up the "Compatibility mode" using the criteria in the image I placed in this message. Finish by clicking on the "APPLY" button and now, the CS6 Bridge should respond like your older ones. Let me know if this helps.
Cheers
Marc.
I'm having the same problems with the spinning cache (or whatever) circles; I can no longer even navigate my folders in Bridge. Useless.
No, you don't have the same problem because this thread is all about what seems to be a Windows specific problem for some users. And since you name iPhoto and Aperture you must be on a Mac.
The behavior you see is either due to a false cache or preferences. If you restart Bridge holding down option key and from the menu choose both reset preferences and purge entire cache there is a good chance you can use Bridge as expected.
Bridge acts as a file browser reflecting the contents of your folders while iPhoto and Aperture both by default in a central library file in your 'pictures' folder and hides also the content of this folder. You can reveal the content by using right mouse click on this library file and choose show package content. But messing around in those content is not the best thing to do.
I was actually thinking I could use Bridge to organize and keep track of my photos.
You can do so but keep in mind that Bridge might present itself also as a Digital Asset Manager it is not that good in it as a dedicated DAM like Canto Cumulus or iView MediaPro that are designed for running an image archive (but a dedicated DAM lacks also features Bridge is very good at).
If you work with very large numbers and need stability for this archive you better look for an alternative. If you want to manage your new files, rename, add metadata, sort and prepare for editing in PS Bridge is the right and very useful application for you.
If you have 50 K or more of archive files you might think about adding a real DAM to your workflow, together with Bridge this can be very powerful tools
I beg to differ, this is the same problem, and it's cross platform issue, not just windows issue.
In this case I doubt it but we have to wait for reposting if the given options would help him. But to me it seems cache related and not the dreadful slowness you do experience. And I heard a few others with Windows having same performance slowness.
But until we hear from him we have to wait. Given your nice definition of the color blue we best keep on breathing normal...
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