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Archive 2009 · Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

Mark Metternich
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p.1 #1 · Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

Yesterday my external Seagate 1 TB hard drive (fairly new) was acting strange in relationship to Bridge CS4. Bridge was having problems reading the files from it and the light on the hard drive was dimming and brightening up in repetitive fashion. I always back up, but just got back from Africa and have about 4000 images on that drive yet to be backed up, so this scares me.

Strange thing is that when I go to the drive through Windows (XP) the drive acts fine (the dimming thing stops) and the images come up fine and they come up fine in PS too. So, this makes me wonder if this is an issue with Bridge. I have had some Bridge issues in the past and have thought about re loading PS and Bridge.

Question is: do you think it might be Bridge as apposed to the hard drive?

Oct 27, 2009 at 01:48 PM

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p.1 #2 · Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

You need to wait until Bridge finishes building the cache for the 4000 new files.

And where is the cache located? It makes a difference if it's centralized or stored locally on the external drive. Are you caching the 100% size image?

Oct 28, 2009 at 01:34 AM

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p.1 #3 · Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

Thanks for the answer here. I spent some time reading about Cache the other day and think you are right. Should it be centralized or stored locally?

Oct 29, 2009 at 01:40 PM

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p.1 #4 · Hard Drive, Bridge QUESTION

Centralized, and use the 100% previews.

Oct 29, 2009 at 03:22 PM

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