Bridge freezes

LM
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Lonnie_Meissinger
Jul 26, 2006
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My wife attempted to clean up the desktop on her Mac PowerBook G4 (1GB ram, CS2) by putting numerous folders into one large project folder. When she used Bridge to navigate to one folder containing just a few TIFF files, Bridge would let her select and open these images, but trying to select any other folder would freeze everything up (spinning beachball) until she Force Quit Bridge. Rebooting and relaunching Bridge always took her back to the original folder. Again, she could open these images but not navigate elsewhere. She took all of the folders she was consolidating out of the project folder but this didn’t seem to help. All of the other image folders on the desktop (there are a lot) can be opened either by double-clicking or from withing Photoshop. My thought is perhaps something is corrupt in this original folder although every image in it seems to open with no problem. I am thinking perhaps to delete this folder and it’s contents and relaunch Bridge.

Any thoughts?
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Ram
Jul 27, 2006
Time to purge the cache.

You may need to move the files to fresh new folder if the Purging of the cache alone does nor help.

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Lonnie_Meissinger
Jul 27, 2006
Purging the cache didn’t help, but maybe I see the culprit. This may be more of an Apple forum question, but I’ll ask here too. I was looking through the various folders on the desktop when I found one that appeared to have a copy of every one of the dozens of folders on the desktop. My first thought was that my wife had duplicated all of these folders which would have about finished filling the drive, but the available space was still the same. They don’t appear to be alias’ as such. When I change a folder name on the desktop the name changes on the version of the folder in the other folder that has all of the folders.

This could be what is causing some sort of loop. What do I do????
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Ram
Jul 27, 2006
As per post #1:

You may need to move the files to fresh new folders if the Purging of the cache alone does nor help.
LM
Lonnie_Meissinger
Jul 27, 2006
How does one do that? As I said, this one folder is an exact mirror of what’s on the desktop. If I trash a folder on the desktop, it also disappears from inside the "dupe" folder. If I create a new folder on the desktop, it appears in the "dupe" folder. Likewise, if I delete a folder from inside the "dupe" folder, it disappears from the desktop. What is really weird is that the "dupe" folder also appears inside itself! But what is inside that version are the actual files that are supposed to be there. How do I make new folders? If I do, they just appear inside this "encompassing" folder.
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Ram
Jul 27, 2006
Please post in the Bridge forum, Lonnie. It sounds like your wife made a mess of your machine. :/

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Buko
Jul 27, 2006
When she used Bridge to navigate to one folder

I’ve never used Bridge to navigate to a folder. Just drag the folder you want to view onto the picture area. the thumbnails show on the side.

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