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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:21:42 -0000, "Toobi-Won Kenobi" <Toobi-won wrote:
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 14:14:50 -0000, "Toobi-Won Kenobi" <Toobi-won wrote:
"Joe Lauton" wrote in message
Gentlemen,
Where may the CS3 browser files be located?
In CS it was in PhotoshopCS under FileBrowser.
I know they call it Bridge now – regardless I have avoided creating a lot of files with PS since I have yet to find the folder where I can remove the old ones to conserve disc space.
Thanks
jl
Are you asking where your image files are located?
What do you mean by "avoided creating a lot of files" to conserve disc space?
Is your HD nearly full? How many drives do you have?
PS requires a minimum of 15% free space on any installed harddrive for use
as a scratch disc. If your disc is more than 85% full you will have operational problems with PS.
As to where your files are try searching for PSD files.
HTH
TWK
Not sure if I should answer this.
In CS I ended up having about 9 GB of browser image files. It was a real drag on the entire system. Went in there and deleted all except the last 500 MBs or so.
I’m making a wild guess the same situation exists in CS3. Never mind the rest of the system. There are plenty of PS flaws to occupy the time of everyone.
Hoping for an answer to my question or where it could be found. Does adobe even have ‘support’ or something like that?
Do you mean the thumbnails that Bridge displays? According to Bridge’s prefs
(ctr+K) they are stored in a folder called C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CS3\Cache. You can specify other locations for the folder from the Cache page in prefs and also purge the cache as well.
The cache improves the speed of Bridge’s operation.
Saying this, 9 GBs is a lot of thumbnails.;(
TWK
Thanks for the info.
ctl+K does work – however it is under documents and settings by default.
Not on my PC.
Folder name is Bridgestore and appears to have no filenames or anything that appears similar to the folders in question – unlike CS. Storing exporting the caches into folders seem to do next to nothing in that main storage retains its size (about 278MB). The purge all – the folder caches remain and as hidden files that I was unable to view in Bridge in spite of setting it to do so and all the photos have to be regenerated.
I could view the hidden files using PowerDesk and deleting them seemed to not harm anything. I had some, perhaps silly hope, that the caches stored in folders would be independent of and in place of the main storage in bridgestore folder.
I have all the latest CS3 updates.
Am I missing something? A setting perhaps?
Wonder if sending/redirecting the bridgestore folder to a different physical drive would be a problem?
From the Bridge users in the Adobeforums, see last paragraph especially.
"Looks like Bridge uses the cache file located in the various folders as a first choice to read. If the data located in the folder does not exist in the Centralized cache, it copies it from the folder into the Centralized cache! In other words the Centralized cache will grow irregardless of the folder containing a copy of the cache data.
So it seams the ONLY time I want to export cache to folder is if I am burning to CD or viewing over a network.
One last possible reason I can think of for exporting . . . If the Centralized Cache is limited in size and is just a buffer for what has been worked with lately, then I see reason to always export to the folders. Like if the Centralized Cache is limited to 2GB and the total size of all distibuted caches is greater than 2GB, the Centralized Cache will start overwriting some of the older less used cache info. Further testing supports this theory. As I see it, the new logic looks something like this:
IF exists FolderCache
use FolderCache
If FolderCache not in CentralizedCache
add to CentralizedCache and if CentralizedCacheFull, overwrite older cached data
Else If exists CentralizedCache for this folder
use CentralizedCache for this folder
Else get busy rendering images
If Preferances say copy to folder do so.
If CentralizedCacheFull, overwrite older cached data
Can someone verify all this?
Another side note that may help clear up some confusion: Purging a cache does not mean the file size of the cachefile will be reduced. The rational is that the cache system will need use that space as it is rebuilding its cache information."
HTH
TWK
