Hi there and thank you very much for your help.

Bridge CS3; Windows 7

1. How do I change Bridge to have JPG pictures opened with Windows Picture Viewer? At the moment is opens with PS which is not necessary and Windows Picture Viewer is not in the drop down list.

2. Can I have my whole Pictures folder (with the different folders) indexed in such a way that ALL keywords are displayed, irrespective in the folder the pictures are in? (I hope my question is making sense. )

Regards,

Deon

I just installed the Photoshop CS5 Production Premium suite on my Win 7 system.

I have 8GB RAM, 2.60 GHz processor, 64-bit operating system.

Photoshop works fine. However, Bridge does not open. When I click either File>Browse in Bridge, or click the BR icon, I see a momentary spinning circle timer, then nothing. While the little circle is spinning, the red X in the upper right hand corner of the Photoshop window turns gray.

I called Adobe and spent nearly two hours with a tech to solve this problem. The solution he came up with is not satisfactory, and I was wondering if anyone else had an idea.

We tried to reset Bridge using the CTR while opening Bridge and checking the three options, then restarting Photoshop.

We reinstalled Photoshop from the discs.

Finally, we set up a new user account on my computer. If I open Photoshop in the second user account, I can open Bridge. However, since all of my thousands of photos are saved in files in my first user account, I cannot save any photos to these files if I am in the second account. Also, I cannot browse my photo files, as they are in the first user account.

Obviously, I can’t operate this way. Does anyone have a fix or an idea of what to do?

I have noticed recently that my Bridge program (cs4) has not been automatically exporting .xmp files into the folder where I store my images. I have been doing a lot of reading, but still can’t seem to find a solid answer as far as what to do.

I have figured out how to export .xmp files into another folder, but what’s the point of that? I want the metadata for my images to stay with my images. When I move them from folder to folder using Bridge, the xmp files used to move also, so I never lost my metadata.

I also empty my cache fairly often. I noticed that Bridge was no longer exporting xmp files when I emptied my cache and ALL my metadata that I had added to my images was gone, just like that.

I am a photographer and need that information to go somewhere permanent automatically, not in the cache which is supposed to store temporary file information.

Anyone have any idea?

Thanks so much!

Some of my files are outside the viewing area of my monitor when I try to choose them from the Bridge program.  At first there was a slider at the bottom of the screen, but after I loaded and installed the update from Adobe and restarted, even that option disappeared.  If I can not see all photos in a folder, CS5 is not very useful.

Error – The operation could not be completed.  Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

After this happens I have to close Bridge as it is unresponsive to any further commands and I often I have to use the task manager to close it.

I have scoured these boards and the web for a solution and have found others w/ the same problem (even people w/ much more RAM) but have not found a solution beyond the usual advice of changing cache settings, increasing page file, or making sure there is enough hard drive space.

I have two 1TB hdd’s w/ over 80% free space on each but I only have 2 GB RAM (all my old motherboard can handle).  However, this error message occurs even when Photoshop is not running (only Bridge) and my RAM usage meter shows that I still have plenty of unused RAM available.  I did not have this problem w/ Bridge CS4. The error msg. of not enough storage doesn’t make since considering the available RAM showing and ample space on the hard disk assigned to the cache (which is a different physical drive than my OS or the Bridge program.)

Here are some of the things I have tried:

reset Bridge preferences at startup, changed the location of the Bridge cache, its size and options, purged the cache, changed the page file size on both drives to the max, defragmented drives, disabled Norton anti-virus, etc.

-What else can I try?

-Would creating a new partition on my 2nd hdd to be used solely for the Bridge cache make any difference and if so, why?

Please help, I am willing to try anything to get this to work.  It is a personal challenge at this point…. and I am determined to get Bridge CS5 to work on my machine…… 

Thanks in advance for any advice or insturctions you may offer!

I’ve just installed the Master Collection suite and all is well, except, I have a 2 monitor setup and I like to have Bridge on the second monitor to see my images and such while working. Sad thing is, I can barely use Bridge CS5 as it is sooo slow. Simply clicking on the ‘File’ menu of the menu bar takes a full 12 seconds before the menu drops down, then all the menus work fine, until I select an option from the menus, such as ‘Save File’; that took over 45 seconds to actually open the file dialogue box. Forget about browsing folders, that took over 5 minutes to just decide to switch to the new view. I don’t have a slouch machine either. It is a Windows 7 Professional 64bit on a Dual Quad-Xeon system with 12 gigs of Ram and a Nvidia 8800GTS video card. Every part of Bridge CS5 works this way, I even installed the *update* it called for, but that didnt produce any benefits to this situation, unfortunately.

I generally have good luck with Adobe tools, but this one has me stumped. CS4 is still installed and works just fine; every operation is nearly instant (if not instant!), so I’ll use that in the meantime, but I’d like to have Bridge CS5 working the way its supposed to.

Thanks–

PS I read a couple posts re: the problem that said, let it builds its cache. I left it open for hours and hours, this didnt make a difference, its as slow as when I first opened it.

Camera raw and DNG files appear as generic icons instead of image previews (Bridge CS5)

What can I do ?