Thursday, February 21, 2013

Speed up your indexing in Bridge

If you find yourself having to reindex/recache an extremely large image library (like ours), here's a handy tip to get you back in search mode fast.
  1. Launch Bridge
  2. Make sure Path Bar is visible (if not, go to Window>Path Bar).
  3. On the right side of the Path Bar, just to the left of the Star rating drop-down menu are two square icons. These allow you to modify the thumbnail quality and preview generation in Bridge. 
  4. Select "Prefer Embedded (Faster)".
  5. Voila!
It might take a few moments when you select an image to generate a preview and if you find this too annoying you can change it back to "Always High Quality" or even  add "Generate 100% Previews" although this will consume lots more disk space and of course take more time in caching/indexing)

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