PS and Bridge can't find camera raw

[billposter]

I'm running Sonoma 14.4.1 on an intel mac and trying to get PS/ Bridge/ Camera raw running on an external ssd.  I've just installed the latest versions bridge 15.01.412, PS 26.1.0

Neither apps finds camera raw, though creative cloud thinks it's installed. I've tried uninstalling. and removing  all the adobe directories under /Library/Application Support/

I can't run on the main drive as I don't have enough space.

I've tried all sorts of things like even installed camera raw manually. I'm at my wits end with this, yes I have googled the problem.

Thanks, for any help.

J.

[D Fosse]

You can't install or run these applications on an external drive. Even if it worked you'd get no end of problems down the road.

But mainly, it's the completely wrong way to go about it. At most you save a couple of GB, which is negligible in the big picture. The Photoshop scratch disk alone needs 10 - 100 times that! You'll have the same problem in less than a week.

You need to clear out space on your system drive. There's no way around it. Not just for Photoshop. If you're that low on space, you will soon have much bigger problems than Photoshop.

A basic installation of operating system and a range of applications should not take up much more than 90 - 130 GB. Anything above that can potentially be cleaned out.

The external drive is for your image files and documents, nothing else. Even so, be aware that you should never work directly off an external drive. You can do it, but it will be slow and with a much higher risk of file corruption. Save to local disk (which after you cleaned it will have some space to spare), and copy over to permanent storage on the external.

[billposter]

Well in which case I've had it as the mac book pro is only 128GB.

[D Fosse]

Well, don't really know what to say. A 128 GB system drive is really not adequate to run Photoshop, in several different ways.

In that case you need to be very disciplined with how that disk is organized. Clean out everything possible, and be very careful what you install. If you don't install anything other than the bare essentials, you may be able to get the total system footprint down to 70 or 80 GB. That should make it possible to install and run Photoshop, but make no mistake: it won't run very efficiently.

I'd recommend not installing Bridge, and in Photoshop, set History Staets to a very low number like 4 to 6. That lets you undo, but only a few steps.