Upgrading your present version of Bridge will require a completely new cache for your image library. (Indeed, each version of Bridge is cache specific.) If you need the latest version of Bridge to help keep up with your design teams but don't want to have to completely reindex your image library there is one reliable workaround: Don't do it.
OK, what I mean is keep your "old" version of Bridge and use that for all your searching needs -- you're already indexed. After all, the latest version probably won't make a significant difference for searching. You can still upgrade, of course, just don't overwrite your old copy of Bridge.
That way you can take your time and grow the next copy of your cache with the latest version, at your own pace -- if you wish.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Error, bug or server glitch?
It's been too long since I posted an update about our central image library but things have been going well and I suppose I didn't want to jinx that. We're at nearly 160k (that's 160,000) photos archived using Bridge and so far, so good.
Well, OK, all is not perfect in the Emerald City, at least in respect to one machine in particular, a Windows PC running Bridge CS5.1.
Lately I've notice an odd behavior occurring on this particular Windows machine: when I save a search by creating a collection of images (~5k), and then return to review the collection later, once it completes building criteria and I start sorting through the collection, duplicate thumbs and filenames appear, first a few and then hundreds.
Mind you, this phenomenon is machine-specific only and does not seem to affect copying files to another folder; it does not actually create duplicate files in the image library (housed on a separate server).
Anyway, if I click out of the collection and then back in the phenomenon is gone; the collection has returned to its normal state. (Or what passes for normal in Bridge).
Odd? It's not so much the frustration that arises when I try and use the collection for sorting, etc., but the concern that something is going on deep inside Bridge's bowels (not a pleasant image either) that may be causing unseen or unknown things to occur inside the image library.
Any ideas?
Well, OK, all is not perfect in the Emerald City, at least in respect to one machine in particular, a Windows PC running Bridge CS5.1.
Lately I've notice an odd behavior occurring on this particular Windows machine: when I save a search by creating a collection of images (~5k), and then return to review the collection later, once it completes building criteria and I start sorting through the collection, duplicate thumbs and filenames appear, first a few and then hundreds.
Mind you, this phenomenon is machine-specific only and does not seem to affect copying files to another folder; it does not actually create duplicate files in the image library (housed on a separate server).
Anyway, if I click out of the collection and then back in the phenomenon is gone; the collection has returned to its normal state. (Or what passes for normal in Bridge).
Odd? It's not so much the frustration that arises when I try and use the collection for sorting, etc., but the concern that something is going on deep inside Bridge's bowels (not a pleasant image either) that may be causing unseen or unknown things to occur inside the image library.
Any ideas?
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