**HORRIFYINGLY SLOW BRIDGE AFTER GETTING M1**

@Anisha GuptaIm' sorry to report that updating Camera Raw has no effect on the keyword change times.

The timed test is on 156 JPG files in a single folder, raging from 250 KB to 650 KB. The entire folder is just 66 MB.

With ACR 14.2, I did a Select All on the files and unchecked a single keyword that was previously set for all of them. The time required on a Studio Mac Pro with 64 GB was 00:05:47.

No I've downloaded and installed ACR 14.3. This version doesn't yet appear in the CC app, so I downloaded the installer from the Adobe page and ran it, letting it use all its defaults.

I repeated the timed test. With ACR 14.3 the time was 00:03:26, so a saving of more than 2 minutes (41%). That's certainly an improvement, but waiting 3.5 minutes for 156 small JPGs to update doesn't feel like professional software. By comparison, Photoshop can SAVE AS… on a 150 MB 26 layer file in less than 30 seconds.

Given the number of messages in these forums over the past couple of years that related to the keyword update speed, and given the new Mac hardware and prevelence of SSD, it would be great to see the Bridge team take a hard look at this issue, as it is a true problem for anyone who wants to rely on Bridge and also on keywords.

I can tell you that the issue likely sits in the threading or some hitch with the file system. I watched closely today and sometimes one file of about 450 KB would require 6 seconds to modify, and other times 5 or 6 files of about the same size would modify in the same amount of time. At the end, the final 14 files updated all at once, after about a 3 second delay. Thus it seems reasonable to expect that the bottleneck(s) could be found and addressed.

Let's hope!