Dear Adobe team,
I just lost around two hours trying to understand why Bridge 2026 behaves completely differently from Bridge 2025 — and honestly, I’m very frustrated.
Here’s what happened:
After updating to Bridge 2026 on macOS,
•I can no longer drag and drop folders from Finder or the Dock into Bridge.
•Bridge keeps opening the same “stuck” default folder over and over, no matter what I do.
•Even after a complete reset and reinstall, it ignores my actions and locks onto the first folder I ever opened in Bridge 2026.
•It also triggers macOS “Move out of Dropbox?” prompts, even though my Dropbox files are fully synced and local.
When I downgraded back to Bridge 2025, everything immediately started working again — drag & drop, proper folder memory, and no Dropbox issues.
So this is clearly a regression in Bridge 2026, not a system or user problem.
I’ve used Bridge for years and rely on it daily for managing photos, videos, PDFs, and design assets.
This new version completely broke that workflow and wasted a lot of time on something that simply worked perfectly before.
Please fix this as soon as possible or at least provide a preference option like
--use_legacy_file_api permanently in settings, so users on macOS can keep working normally.
Two hours of digging, testing, and reinstalling older versions just to make Bridge usable again — that’s about the same as a full month of my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.
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