Slow performance, working with large numbers of files

[Yammer]

I have a library of about 40,000 images, mainly raw and some jpeg. Each shoot has its own folder, and each year's worth of shoots has its own parent folder. This makes browsing each folder very quick, whilst tidying older shoots away until needed. Most of my images are tagged with keywords, including subject and location.

Occasionally, I need to look at images with common keywords. This is where Bridge usually comes unstuck, especially if the number of results is in the thousands. I often dump the results of searches into a Collection, and then work with the Collection, adding and removing images as I go. More than a few thousand though and Bridge becomes deadful to use, with long delays after each action, even though I have a pretty fast and well-configured computer.

Looking in Task Manager, I see that these long pauses show Bridge working at 12% CPU. My guess is that Collection and Filter operations on the Content panel are using one core out of 8 on my i7 processor. This is frustrating when I'm waiting for up to a minute for Bridge to catch up. Layman's logic suggests that Bridge could do these things in up to an eighth of the time, if it used more of the CPU resources.

Does anyone know what I can do to speed things up? Any tips and tricks? Or is Bridge just not built for handling lots of images?

C: 256GB SSD, contains OS (WIn 10 Pro), apps (CC 2017) and Bridge cache

D: 512GB HDD, contains documents and OS TEMP folders

P: 1TB RAID 5, contains images and Ps scratch

[Sahil.Chawla]

Hi Yammer,

Please refer to this article Troubleshoot Adobe Bridge for errors and freezes

Regards,

Sahil

[Yammer]

Thanks for the link, Sahil. Not sure why it was marked as correct, as nothing in that article helps with large numbers of images, so I've unmarked it. I've been using Bridge for nearly 10 years and consider myself a fairly experienced user, but I would definitely benefit from some insider knowledge. However, I'm familiar with the stuff in the linked article already, and was hoping for someone to dig a bit deeper. This is more of a "how can I set up my system to overcome Bridge's limitations?" sort of problem.

[Sahil.Chawla]

Did you try purging the cache from Bridge's preferences?

[Yammer]

Did you try creating a Collection with a few thousand images?

I've been using Bridge for 9 years on several different computers. This problem is a general one, not a specific fault on one computer.

[Sahil.Chawla]

I have escalated this issue with the engineering team and we'll get back to you soon with a resolution or workaround.

[Yammer]

Any news?