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Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (last tab). Now click on the lock on the bottom left and provide your Administrator code. Now select the Full Disk Access option and click on the "+" symbol. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window and let you add any application you want or need to have full access. Look for Bridge, select it, it will now appear in that window and make sure it's checked. Next go to the Files and Folders option and do the same thing as above (although there's nothing to check, just add. Close everything down and see if that makes it all work.
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Mark, two things: first I removed all of your personal information in your message above. I just happened to have noticed that and removed it. Please be aware that not everyone who sees these messages are good people. 'Nuff said.
There are thousands of people who are on Big Sur and are using the latest Bridge (myself included) who are not having any of the issues you are having. Unless there is a repeatable issue, there's nothing that Adobe can do to fix something. Yes, it's just like bringing your car into the shop but in the shop it works just fine: no funny noises, engine doesn't skip, wheels do not fall off, there's not much for the shop to do.
Here are some self-maintenance things that you can do that will cost nothing but a little time.
1) Go Download Big Sur Cache Cleaner. It's free to download and if you don't like it, toss it but it has helped me a number of times. If you buy it the charge is nominal. It does a variety of things but the two you should try is the general maintenance operations, click on ALL and then click on Run. (These are things that are supposed to be self-run by the Mac OS while the computer is asleep but this just guarantees that they are done.) Then click on the Cache tab, select the Middle option and run in on all Caches. (Note: it will seem like nothing has happened and you're good to close it down but wait a few minutes and then you'll have to restart your computer. Just be patient)
2) Go into Safe Mode. Restart your computer and when the screen goes black, press the Shift key until the progress bar is displaying for a minute or two. This startup will take a lot longer than you think it should and if it's much much longer, that means that the Mac is doing a lot of repair on your system. Your Mac will run ridiculously slow after you start up and if you want to see if Bridge is crashing or not you can but I can't say it will make much of a difference.
3) Go into Repair Mode: Restart your computer and when the screen goes black press the Option + Command + r keys. When you see a glob spinning, you can let go. This will take a long time, 5-20 minutes depending on your Internet speeds. During this you may or may not be asked to sign into your wifi (if you're on wifi). [One option to get around this delay is if you have a partition with an operating system on your computer or a separate hard drive to boot up off of.] Now go into Disk First Aid and see this dropdown menu in upper left corner of the DFA and select Show All Devices:
If you do not see this, restart into a normal startup and then repeat #3. Once selected, you should see your hard drive displaying something like this. (It will be different because I took these screenshots running DFA while I'm writing this.)
 
Now, run this from top down. That is select a top offering, and run the process. If you see any errors, run it again. Then, once clean do the next one, etc. The last one is "(your hard drive)" - Data." Once that one is running clean, restart.
Lastly, good luck!!
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