10 Replies Latest reply: Mar 4, 2008 2:34 AM by Ramón G Castañeda RSS

    Uninstalling Bridge

    Michael_H._Phillips-25llKp Community Member
      I have Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 installed as stand-alone products
      (i.e. not the CS3 suite). Bridge was also installed but I have no use for it.
      Using the Illustrator or Photoshop un-installers doesn't give an option to
      remove Bridge. So how do I do it?

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      Michael

      mhphillips at gmail dot com
        • 1. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
          Omke Oudeman Community Member
          If you are sure to delete it use a finder search with the word Bridge, that should give you most of the files that you can trash manually using the find results.

          But you could also give Bridge a try... :-)
          • 2. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
            Michael_H._Phillips-25llKp Community Member
            On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:43:42 +0000, Omke_Oudeman@adobeforums.com wrote:

            > If you are sure to delete it use a finder search with the word Bridge, that
            > should give you most of the files that you can trash manually using the find
            > results.
            >
            > But you could also give Bridge a try... :-)

            Thanks Omke. A search for 'bridge' produces 478 results, not all related to
            Adobe Bridge. I'd have to be very careful in my selection. I'd be worried,
            too, that Illustrator and Photoshop might complain or worse if they
            discovered that Bridge was missing.

            I have tried Bridge but find it much too slow and clumsy for my needs,
            preferring a third-party solution.

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            Michael

            mhphillips at gmail dot com
            • 3. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
              Omke Oudeman Community Member
              Michael

              >slow and clumsy for my needs

              If you told that you have experienced problems with it I would believe you but slow and clumsy is not what I find :-)

              But it makes me curious what third party app you are talking about??

              If you want to remove for space reason just put the option show invisible files on in the Bridge menu. That is if you used bridge for caching large amount of files. Do a search for the invisible cachefile with the name '.BridgeCacheT', those can grow to big sizes the more you use a folder for caching.

              In user go to the library and look for caches - Adobe - Bridge CS3 In here is a cache file that can grow to 16 GB.

              At last you can remove the application itself for another 329 mb free space.
              • 4. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                Community Member
                Alternatively doesn't the installer disk do an uninstall of components? This would remove the app safely but you will still need to remove the cache files manually.

                BRETT
                • 5. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                  Michael_H._Phillips-25llKp Community Member
                  On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:41:26 +0000, Brett_Dalton@adobeforums.com wrote:

                  > Alternatively doesn't the installer disk do an uninstall of components? This
                  > would remove the app safely but you will still need to remove the cache files

                  > manually.

                  No, the stand-alone disks allow removal of the main application only. Maybe
                  the Suite installer allows removal of components?

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                  Michael

                  mhphillips at gmail dot com
                  • 6. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                    Michael_H._Phillips-25llKp Community Member
                    On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:40:44 +0000, Omke_Oudeman@adobeforums.com wrote:

                    > If you told that you have experienced problems with it I would believe you
                    > but slow and clumsy is not what I find :-)
                    >
                    > But it makes me curious what third party app you are talking about??

                    My only use for it is as an image browser (.eps and .ai in the main) with
                    basic functions such as re-naming and moving. For this I use Extensis
                    Portfolio.

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                    Michael

                    mhphillips at gmail dot com
                    • 7. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                      Omke Oudeman Community Member
                      OK Michael

                      Bridge promised to be a lot, also to do asset management. It does but indeed not at a high standard and problematic with a lot of files in one folder.

                      But it does work very good for sorting, rating renaming and moving files to another location, but after moving cache needs to rebuild and that is a real downside.

                      If Extensis suits you I can imagine you have no need for Bridge :-)
                      • 8. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                        (Henrik_Mjöberg)
                        Hi!

                        Michael, did you move Bridge to the trashcan and the remaining applications continued to work properly?

                        I too would like to uninstall the Bridge, StockPhotos and DeviceCentral applications from my Mac but leave the Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 allications untouched. It's a shame the installer(s) won't apply to particular components.

                        There are also others trying to do the same: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=388825

                        I simply find the native Apple Aperture and iPhoto applications easier to work with when it comes to organising photos. But for editing and drawing purposes the Adobe suite has been cutting edge for me during the last decade or more.

                        Anyway, if you did succeed please let me know.. or I'll try it myself and let you know!

                        Best regards,
                        Henrik
                        • 9. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                          Michael_H._Phillips-25llKp Community Member
                          On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:25:55 +0000, Henrik_Mjöberg@adobeforums.com wrote:

                          > Michael, did you move Bridge to the trashcan and the remaining applications
                          > continued to work properly?
                          >
                          > I too would like to uninstall the Bridge, StockPhotos and DeviceCentral
                          > applications from my Mac but leave the Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3
                          > allications untouched.

                          I have now trashed Bridge, StockPhotos and DeviceCentral applications and
                          their associated folders and both Illustrator and PhotoShop continue to
                          function unscathed.

                          I tried the same with VersionCue but AI and PS refused to launch.

                          --
                          Michael

                          mhphillips at gmail dot com
                          • 10. Re: Uninstalling Bridge
                            Ramón G Castañeda Community Member
                            There's actually an uninstaller for Adobe Stock Photos that was released recently, since the service will be discontinued next month.