Odd. My machine is virtually identical to yours, save for Nvidia graphics. I
am delighted with the very snappy performance of both Photoshop CS4 and
Bridge, both improved over CS3. And Open GL works fine with no impediment to
performance.

Perhaps it is just the inherent difficulty of writing for the vast array of
Windows machines, not to mention background processes. One thing I do that
may help is to make my Adobe programs and common files "off-limits" to my
anti-virus software (Kaspersky) after the initial scan.

I just found out how I can speed up Bridge CS4 considerably. Using the Windows Registry Editor, I navigated to the Registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Bridge CS4\Preferences

There I created a new string value named ThumbnailQuality and assigned 'draft' to it. Et voilà: re-building the thumbnail cache now is as fast as, if not even faster than, with Bridge CS3.

Still, no way to access this setting via Bridge's regular Preferences dialog. Weird.

-- Olaf

There is a UI in Bridge CS4 to switch between "Quick Thumbnail" and "High Quality:"

On the top right of the Bridge Window, below workspaces, left side of a "star icon" - there is a square with popup down arrow. If you hover it over, the 'square icon' tooltip will show "Option for thumbnail quality and preview generation"

If you click on the 'square icon with arrow down popup' - you will see 3 options:
- Prefer Embedded (faster)
- High Quality on Demand
- Always High Quality (this is the default setting).

Michelle Qi
Bridge QE

Michelle Qi wrote:

There is a UI in Bridge CS4 to switch between "Quick Thumbnail" and "High
Quality"




There is!?

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Michelle Qi wrote:

On the top right of the Bridge Window, below workspaces, left side of
a "star icon" - there is a square with popup down arrow.




Nope. There is no star icon, no square, and below the workspace options there's the Content pane. Why don't you simply put the thumbnail quality options where they belong and where they always have been?

-- Olaf

I find that silly path bar one of the most useful features!

John Joslin wrote:

I find that silly path bar one of the most useful features!




That doesn't surprise me as there are even people who consider the silly metadata placard a useful feature. Of course, Adobe can introduce as many stupid features as they like---as long as they don't limit our freedom to disable them. So I don't have any problems with the path bar.

The problem is that a feature that is (1) essential and (2) rarely needed (in fact, needed exactly once right after installation) is removed from the Preferences dialog and placed where it absolutely does not belong.

Anyway ... now I know how to disable High-Quality Thumbnails in Bridge CS4, so I won't complain anymore. Still, it is really bad UI design.

-- Olaf

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Today, after installing the various CS4 updates, Bridge has stopped showing thumbnails of dng files and of Canon G9 cr2 files - ie, files that yesterday (before the "upgrade") CS4 Bridge thumbnailed appropriately. Is there a simple solution to this?

Teresa

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