Adobe Bridge CS5.1 crashes if directory contains .zip archive

Bridge CS5 crashes regulalry on me since MLion upgrade. Very annoying as it rarely crashed on Lion. I have reverted to using Aperture for image hunts as it is all I could think of doing. Please someone, help!

Yep, same here. Running Adobe bridge CS5.1, upgraded to Mountain Lion yesterday. Navigated to folder that contained a zip file and Bridge crashed. I removed the zip file, launched Bridge again,and went to that same folder. Worked perfectly. On a hunch, I dragged a zip file back into that folder in Bridge, and *WHAP* down she goes again.

Looks like we wait for a fix. *sigh*

Unless...File type association somehow comes into it? Interesting, I just checked (it's under Preferences) and neither a zip file or a doc file is in the list.

Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any way to add a new file type. Hm. Don't know if it has anything to do with the crashing, but man, what a pain this is! 😟

OK, I believe I've got a workaround. Locate a zip file, do a Get Info in the Finder. Change the "Open with:" from Archive Utility app to Stuffit Expander app.

Now go to Bridge and open that folder containing that zip file. Does it open without crashing? If so, go back to Get Info and choose to "Change all" to Stuffit Expander.

Now you can navigate without crashing (at least with zip files!)

Works for me. Thanks! I'd still like to see a proper fix, but at least now I can use Bridge again with some sort of confidence.

You're welcome, guys. Glad it worked for you. And I also agree, we need a proper fix. For now, I'll take getting work done versus "oops dammit". 😉

Ooooops.I thought it might be too good to be true (a work-around) After using Bridge CS5 a little more intensley, it started crashing time after time while browsing thumbnails. This is NOT GOOD! I depend on Bridge for browsing over 70 thousand images and I am having to go back to using Aperture which is also crashy. I wish I had never upgraded to MLion now and I don't now if it is safe to even think of returning to Lion.

It works, but only kind of... like @wardiefromnsw, it's still beyond any stability it used to have. I changed the file type association, but it's still too flakey for me to use on any consistant basis.

Is there another good file structure browser out there besides the finder - which lacks so much compared to Bridge. I can't go to an image only browser because I use it for all my client files.

I found the solution: Adobe released this patch which fixes the problem: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4911/

Sadly, wouldn't even install:

Adobe Bridge CS5 4.0.4 Update

Installation failed. Error Code: U44M2P7

And, it doesn't apply to me, even though I've got the crashing problem 😟

If you look at the date, it's June of 2011 - so not applicable to Mt. Lion & applies to Bridge 5, not 5.5

Now I am getting seriously annoyed by this problem.

Bridge crashes as soon as I open it now. It worked fairly well after I cleared out most of the non-image related files/folders, but then today it crashed and won't reopen again.

Roaring Apps shows Bridge 4.0.5 compatibility with Mountain Lion, but I have Bridge 4.1.0.54 and it crashes every time. I have run disk verify and permissions to no avail. HELP!

I am having exacly the same problem, my Bridge wont fully start. It flashes up and then closes with a error log report window.

I have had the same issue with Bridge since fiddling with the terminal to make the library in the user folder visible.
Now updated to 10.8.2 and the library folder turned invisible again. But now Bridge seems to work just fine.

Could that be it?