To have easy access to this, I now keep Activity Monitor and Terminal on my Dock. This will purge the memory, and you will be able to see the result on your Activity Monitor (as in the image at the top.)
With the latest releases of OS-X, you will need to type in: sudo purge – then add your password
– Open up Terminal (via Applications / Utilities) While this does nothing to solve the under-lying problem, it does help us get ahead and actually be able to use Adobe Bridge on our Macs. The quick-fix / band-aid: purging memory via Terminal This is something so simple that any competent software engineer will smirk (and the Linux gurus will fall over laughing) … but I wanted to put this out there as info for photographers who use Mac and Adobe Bridge, and who have been as frustrated with this problem that Adobe refuses to fix. Then some sleuthing via Google showed me a very simple way of doing this. And when I upgraded my iMac to 16Gb of RAM, iFreeMem just didn’t work properly at all. I used a program called iFreeMem to regularly free up memory on both my Macs, but the program worked less well with Mountain Lion. There has been one problem that has been driving me crazy on my Mac when I use Bridge … the apparent memory leak with Bridge that eventually eats up all the Free Memory on my system. xmp files), are read by both Lightroom and Bridge. What makes Bridge easy, is that the edits (via the. While I do have Lightroom and Aperture, I have a preference still for using Adobe Bridge to view (and edit) individual images or groups of images. A quick fix for memory leak problems with Adobe Bridge (Mac)
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