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1. Curt Y,

Apr 17, 2012 2:08 PM in reply to benfcast

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No, it is part of Photoshop.

I would at minimium purge your cache, and check your hd disk space. Should have 10-20% free space to work well.

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2. Omke Oudeman,

Apr 17, 2012 2:11 PM in reply to benfcast

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Can I reinstall Bridge independently of Photoshop CS5?

Not as fast a typist as Curt seems but in addition, a reinstall will not likely solve your problems if youd't use the clean tool.

Next to the already given clues I would also try a reset preferences for Bridge, hold down option (Mac) or control (Windows) while restarting Bridge and choose reset preferences.

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3. station_one,

Apr 17, 2012 3:52 PM in reply to Curt Y

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Curt Y wrote:

…and check your hd disk space. Should have 10-20% free space to work well.

I'd say at least 20% to 30% or more. My practice is not to let any hard drive get to be 70% full as a general goal.

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4. Curt Y,

Apr 17, 2012 5:32 PM in reply to station_one

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station_one

I used to say 20% but some thought that was overkill. So thanks for the reinforcement.

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5. Omke Oudeman,

Apr 18, 2012 7:48 AM in reply to Curt Y

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I used to say 20% but some thought that was overkill. So thanks for the reinforcement.

I still think that is overkill...

And what I hate the most about it that it is percentages, having old disks with 250 or even 500 GB I can imagine 50 GB (my rule is 10 %) might bring you in trouble. Yet current HD have 1 to 2 TB (more coming fast) 10 % free space is almost as much as my total disk size of 6 to 7 years back.

Yet with less then 200 GB free space on a 2 TB HD soon the performance starts to decrease (and I also have a separate 150 GB WD Velociraptor almost totally dedicated as Scratch Disk for PS). There might be a perfect technical explanation for this (please let me know if you do have the facts!) but the logic is far behind.

The need of 20 or even 30 % free space also means a quarter of inefficiency. To me that means also 25 % useless spend money, 25 % less space you thought you had when it came out of the box and as said, if somebody can explain the logic of all this I would be very glad to hear it!

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6. Curt Y,

Apr 18, 2012 8:04 AM in reply to Omke Oudeman

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Omke,

Yes I too was wondering about the logic of using a percentage as the HD disk sizes grow. Kind of like using 70% of RAM for photoshop as the standard. Its outdated.

A percentage of memory devoted to PS works fine if you have 4 gigs, but not so fine if you have more than 4 gigs. I have adopted "allow 2 gigs for computer and the rest for PS" advice.

Not sure how that concept can translate to how much free disk space one needs on a 300, 600, 12000, or 2000 gig drive.

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