bridge stops working

Bob Hansen wrote:

Hi Group,
I’m working with CS3 and Photoshop3 in Win Vista. About every 10 minutes bridge stops working and closes. Windows searches for a solution but never finds one. Anyone else had this problem and found a way to resolve it? Any ideas will be appreciated.
Bob

My suggestion would be to switch from Vista to XP.
I’ve yet to hear reports of a reliable and stable installation of Vista.

Fat Sam wrote:

Bob Hansen wrote:

Hi Group,
I’m working with CS3 and Photoshop3 in Win Vista. About every 10 minutes bridge stops working and closes. Windows searches for a solution but never finds one. Anyone else had this problem and found a way to resolve it? Any ideas will be appreciated.
Bob

My suggestion would be to switch from Vista to XP.
I’ve yet to hear reports of a reliable and stable installation of Vista.

We’ve started having issues with Bridge CS3 on our PCs now. On two different XP PCs, we need Bridge + PhotoShop + Illustrator + Flash + DreamWeaver open all day (part of our workflow). These machines are fat with memory (4gb) big CPUs etc etc. Anyway, bridge regularly "vanishes". It’s still there in task manager, but you cannot switch to it. You cannot re-start it from the toolbar in PhotoShop or Illustrator. Previously (CS2) this was fine. You end up having to kill the process…

As a side note this doesn’t happen on our Macs, which can happily have all of CS3 open smoothly.

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SpaceGirl wrote:

Fat Sam wrote:

Bob Hansen wrote:

Hi Group,
I’m working with CS3 and Photoshop3 in Win Vista. About every 10 minutes bridge stops working and closes. Windows searches for a solution but never finds one. Anyone else had this problem and found a way to resolve it? Any ideas will be appreciated.
Bob

My suggestion would be to switch from Vista to XP.
I’ve yet to hear reports of a reliable and stable installation of Vista.

We’ve started having issues with Bridge CS3 on our PCs now. On two different XP PCs, we need Bridge + PhotoShop + Illustrator + Flash + DreamWeaver open all day (part of our workflow). These machines are fat with memory (4gb) big CPUs etc etc. Anyway, bridge regularly "vanishes". It’s still there in task manager, but you cannot switch to it. You cannot re-start it from the toolbar in PhotoShop or Illustrator. Previously (CS2) this was fine. You end up having to kill the process…
As a side note this doesn’t happen on our Macs, which can happily have all of CS3 open smoothly.

What’s your opinions of CS3 on the whole?
My main workflow is in restoring and reconstructing old damaged photos, for which I use CS2.
Do you reckon CS3 offers enough improvements or new features to make the upgrade worthwhile for someone in my position?

I’ve got to say in all honesty, I’ve never used bridge. I still use ACDSee as an file management tool.

Fat Sam wrote:

SpaceGirl wrote:

Fat Sam wrote:

Bob Hansen wrote:

Hi Group,
I’m working with CS3 and Photoshop3 in Win Vista. About every 10 minutes bridge stops working and closes. Windows searches for a solution but never finds one. Anyone else had this problem and found a way to resolve it? Any ideas will be appreciated.
Bob

My suggestion would be to switch from Vista to XP.
I’ve yet to hear reports of a reliable and stable installation of Vista.

We’ve started having issues with Bridge CS3 on our PCs now. On two different XP PCs, we need Bridge + PhotoShop + Illustrator + Flash + DreamWeaver open all day (part of our workflow). These machines are fat with memory (4gb) big CPUs etc etc. Anyway, bridge regularly "vanishes". It’s still there in task manager, but you cannot switch to it. You cannot re-start it from the toolbar in PhotoShop or Illustrator. Previously (CS2) this was fine. You end up having to kill the process…
As a side note this doesn’t happen on our Macs, which can happily have all of CS3 open smoothly.

What’s your opinions of CS3 on the whole?
My main workflow is in restoring and reconstructing old damaged photos, for which I use CS2.
Do you reckon CS3 offers enough improvements or new features to make the upgrade worthwhile for someone in my position?

I’ve got to say in all honesty, I’ve never used bridge. I still use ACDSee as an file management tool.

Apart from other replies – I like CS3 also bridge – just some of the new things that now work. The desktop setup is better (for me).

Bridge ACR make a better work flow.

r

"Fat Sam" wrote in message
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What’s your opinions of CS3 on the whole?

It is probably more of a jump in functionality than CS2 was.

My main workflow is in restoring and reconstructing old damaged photos, for which I use CS2.
Do you reckon CS3 offers enough improvements or new features to make the upgrade worthwhile for someone in my position?

Probably not worth it, frankly. I’d recommend you download the 30 day trial and see if you are attracted by the options.

I’ve got to say in all honesty, I’ve never used bridge. I still use ACDSee as an file management tool.

I use ACDSee too. It’s lightning fast, keeps thumbnails of images that I’ve copied off to CD. Correct me (someone) if I’m wrong, but Bridge just doesn’t cut it – so far – because AFAIK it can’t keep track of offline images.
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Fat Sam wrote:

What’s your opinions of CS3 on the whole?

It’s fantastic… as I use a Mac 99% of the time, I don’t see the issues I’ve mentioned on the PCs in our studio (I refuse to use the PCs :P)

My main workflow is in restoring and reconstructing old damaged photos, for which I use CS2.
Do you reckon CS3 offers enough improvements or new features to make the upgrade worthwhile for someone in my position?

PhotoShop CS3, yes. For photo editors it has some VERY nice new features. The new selection tool is extremely good for very fast masking, which you can then finish up in quickmask mode. The new black and white mode is superb. I also adore the new menus and fold away palettes – I tend to work full screen (tab f f) with no controls, but with a quick move of the mouse all the new menus fold out for managing layers etc. Love it a lot.

I’ve got to say in all honesty, I’ve never used bridge. I still use ACDSee as an file management tool.

Bridge is essential for me. It’s the central point for all my work; the new version is lightening fast and the new features (zoom+compare, stackable images) are very very useful… I’m already unsure how I ever worked without them, and I’ve only had it a few weeks!

As for the rest, well, these days I seem to be doing 20% video, 30% photoshop, 40% flash, 10% web development and CS3 changed my world 🙂 Illustrator CS3 is veryveryverynice, and now it works perfectly with Flash CS3, and the new AS3 language… everything is soooo shiny, I’m seriously enjoying my work right now!

CS3, IMO, is easily the best update to the suite since… well, since it became a suite!

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"SpaceGirl" wrote in message

CS3, IMO, is easily the best update to the suite since… well, since it became a suite!

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x theSpaceGirl (miranda)

I too generally like Bridge. Unfortunately, every so often it decides not to update thumbnails and I get blank rectangles on psd files. I saw some references to this problem on the Adobe site, but no real solutions. Has anyone here had this issue?

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Peter