Remember how I mentioned that Bridge has problems writing metadata? Here is a serious consequence of that bug.
I needed to change the captions on 700 images in a folder. I got the infamous error message, above, and forced quit Bridge. When I opened up the folder again, all my corrections to every image had disappeared. The .xml file to every image appears to have been corrupted. Several hours of work had disappeared.
Pessimism is a useful life strategy. I expect things to go wrong, and so I am obsessive about backing up. I had a mirror of the folder, pre-crash, in my Daily Backup drive from last night's copy operation.
PS. I think I've found the fix to this issue. Under Bridge Preferences, go to Advanced, and check the "Use Software Rendering" box. The default setting (unchecked) apparently makes Bridge talk to the hardware to accelerate the rendering, hence the potential conflict. Now I can append metadata with impunity, even when the thumbnails are still loading.
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