The Adobe Bridge central cache stores thumbnail, preview, and metadata information in a database. This database improves performance when you browse or search for files. However, the larger the cache, the more disk space it uses. Cache preferences help you manage the trade-off between performance and cache size.
- Choose Edit > Preferences > Cache (Windows) or Bridge > Preferences > Cache (Mac OS) and choose from among the following options:
When importing video and audio into Adobe Premiere Pro, it processes versions of these files that it can readily access for faster performance. These are referred to as media cachefiles. These are stored in the Media Cache Files folder. In addition, there is a folder containing a database, which retains links to each of the media cache files. So, this post is dedicated to help you and even help me remember how to clear Media Cache Database stored by Adobe Premier to free up consumed disk space that's as high as 50 GB. I use Windows 10 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Here are the steps: From the menu, click on Edit. Choose Preferences Media. Under Media Cache Database, click on Clean. Adobe Premiere and After Effects. Deleting the Adobe extension's cache and preferences. Deleting the Adobe extension's cache and preferences. Solve login issues and other odd behaviors with Premiere or After Effects Written by Thomas Szabo. Deleting the cache. There are some new cache-related folder additions to the Common folder, including Essential Graphics, com.adobe.ae.aecap, com.adobe.ae.cap, and Team Projects Cache. The first three are all related to the new motion graphic templates feature and Essential Graphics panel in Premiere and After Effects. Just something else to be aware of. If you are saving your auto-save files to a different location than your project files (external hard drive, for example), if you happen to change the port that your hard drive connects to you MIGHT (depending on your system and circumstances) have to manually re-link the autosave folder to your Premiere Pro file.
100% Preview, also called full-size cache, is a JPEG file that displays the 100% zoom-in. This zoom-in is what you see in a slideshow and in full-screen preview. It is also what you see when you use the Loupe tool in Review mode or the Preview panel. When you use this cached file, you avoid rerendering a 100% image from the original source file. However, it does require additional disk space and initial processing takes some time.
When you use the Loupe tool or 100% zoom, this 100% preview is extracted into memory from the file. The Keep 100% Previews In Cache option allows the 100% preview to be written to the central cache, which is in the following location:
- Mac OS: /Users/[User name]/Library/Caches/Adobe/Bridge CS[version number]/Cache/full
- Windows: /Documents and Settings/[User name]/Application Data/Adobe/Bridge CS[version number]/Cache/full
Note: On Windows, turn on Show Hidden Files to see this location. Google desktop mode. See Show hidden files, folders, filename extensions | Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7.
You can also generate full-size previews for all files in a folder. Click the thumbnail and preview quality button in the Application bar and choose Generate 100% Previews. These full-size previews are only used for 100% zoom and loupe, however. They are not used to display thumbnails, slideshows, and screen previews in less than 100% view. Also, they aren't used in the Preview panel or Review mode when you are not using the Loupe tool.
Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible
This option synchronizes central and exported cache data. It generates exported cache files for every folder that Adobe Bridge browses (as long as the folder is not read-only).
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The first time Adobe Bridge views a folder, it checks for the existence of an exported cache. If it finds an exported cache, Adobe Bridge imports all the entries into its central cache. After that, Adobe Bridge only deals with the central cache for that folder; any new or modified thumbnails or metadata is stored in the central cache. If Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible is selected, Adobe Bridge also updates the exported cache with the newly generated or updated thumbnails or metadata. But Bridge does not read exported cache data for that folder since the folder exists in the central cache. What does this mean in practice? It comes into play when multiple instances of Adobe Bridge -- on the same or different computers -- view the folder. For example:
- Bridge CS4 created an exported cache for a folder.
- Bridge CS5 encounters that folder and reads the exported cache, importing all the entries into the Bridge CS4 central cache.
- You put new files in the folder, or add a keyword or other metadata to an existing file.
- Bridge CS4 views the folder and generates thumbnails for the new files. And because Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible is selected, it updates the exported cache file.
- Bridge CS5 views the folder and ignores the exported cache file because it has already seen that folder. It generates thumbnails for the new files and adds them to the central cache.
If you don't want to fill disk space with exported caches for every folder Adobe Bridge views, deselect this option. You can export the cache manually for any individual folder by choosing Tools > Cache > Build And Export Cache. You could do this step, for example, before burning a folder to DVD.
Location shows the path to the central cache. The Adobe Bridge CS3 central cache is in a different location from Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5. Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5 do not read the central cache from Bridge CS3.
Each file and folder that Adobe Bridge caches uses one database record. A database record includes one or more JPEG files that Adobe Bridge generates to display thumbnails and previews. The cache can store to 500,000 records; the default cache size is 100,000 records. Increasing the cache size can improve performance, but a bigger cache uses more disk space.
Compacting the cache removes obsolete database records and the JPEG files associated with those records.
This option synchronizes central and exported cache data. It generates exported cache files for every folder that Adobe Bridge browses (as long as the folder is not read-only).
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The first time Adobe Bridge views a folder, it checks for the existence of an exported cache. If it finds an exported cache, Adobe Bridge imports all the entries into its central cache. After that, Adobe Bridge only deals with the central cache for that folder; any new or modified thumbnails or metadata is stored in the central cache. If Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible is selected, Adobe Bridge also updates the exported cache with the newly generated or updated thumbnails or metadata. But Bridge does not read exported cache data for that folder since the folder exists in the central cache. What does this mean in practice? It comes into play when multiple instances of Adobe Bridge -- on the same or different computers -- view the folder. For example:
- Bridge CS4 created an exported cache for a folder.
- Bridge CS5 encounters that folder and reads the exported cache, importing all the entries into the Bridge CS4 central cache.
- You put new files in the folder, or add a keyword or other metadata to an existing file.
- Bridge CS4 views the folder and generates thumbnails for the new files. And because Automatically Export Cache To Folders When Possible is selected, it updates the exported cache file.
- Bridge CS5 views the folder and ignores the exported cache file because it has already seen that folder. It generates thumbnails for the new files and adds them to the central cache.
If you don't want to fill disk space with exported caches for every folder Adobe Bridge views, deselect this option. You can export the cache manually for any individual folder by choosing Tools > Cache > Build And Export Cache. You could do this step, for example, before burning a folder to DVD.
Location shows the path to the central cache. The Adobe Bridge CS3 central cache is in a different location from Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5. Adobe Bridge CS4 and CS5 do not read the central cache from Bridge CS3.
Each file and folder that Adobe Bridge caches uses one database record. A database record includes one or more JPEG files that Adobe Bridge generates to display thumbnails and previews. The cache can store to 500,000 records; the default cache size is 100,000 records. Increasing the cache size can improve performance, but a bigger cache uses more disk space.
Compacting the cache removes obsolete database records and the JPEG files associated with those records.
Purging the cache deletes all thumbnails and previews from the central cache.