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Really?
"Unfortunately, the Export Panel isn't working in the initial Bridge CS5 release, however Adobe expects to correct the problem within a few weeks of the ship date."

So they know something is wrong, something which should have easily been discovered before going gold master and they are still shipping it - wow. I mean, this isn't some odd thing where if you are exporting a png file on an older machine and saving to a network drive the export fails or some other strange variant you can't always account for. We are talking about the export panel just NOT working.

I've always avoided using Bridge, because it's frankly a resource-intensive beast that - as far as file browsing/management goes - does not offer very much more than the Finder. Yet (at least as of CS3), it gobbles up 3x as much RAM just to have open.

And of course - Adobe has been bound and determined to further your dependency on Bridge by stealing away existing functions from their flagship apps (ie. contact sheets). Better integration with other apps, possibly. But I seriously doubt they found a way to make dropping an image from Bridge into InDesign any less kludgy.

Anyway, it
s a good thing I sold my '09 MBP and got a tower, and beefed it up to 14gb of RAM.

XMattingly, on 03 May 2010 - 12:05 AM, said:

It seems to me that a function like contact sheets is more appropriate in Bridge than in Photoshop, anyway. I see the change as a refinement, a net plus. In addition, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 has become more like Bridge in that its file management features have been beefed up. It's still not as easy as Bridge to use for that purpose but it can stand on its own now.

I have a friend with a 24" 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo iMac with 3GB of RAM who has problems with performance in Bridge. He usually has Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 open at the same time. Unfortunately you cannot allocate resources for Lightroom, Bridge and ACR the way you can with Photoshop. And, though Bridge CS5 is Intel only, it's not 64 bit capable. On my 3GHz quad-core Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM, I have no trouble with Bridge performance, even with Lightroom and Photoshop running. So the issue might be related to available resources, including the number or CPU cores and the amount of RAM on your system. The only performance tweaks I can find for Bridge relate to cache management. I have the caches for all of my Adobe apps on a secondary hard drive with plenty of contiguous free space. It's quite possible that using your boot drive for Adobe application caches would limit both their size and application performance. Also, with Photoshop CS5 running in 64 bit mode you can allocate almost all your system's RAM if you're not careful. In my opinion, if you go much above 50% you will probably inhibit not only other applications but your system as well.