Adobe Bridge Quick Search

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March 8, 2018
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hey, guys. hope everyone is well. this is a topic that has really caused me alot of aggravation. the adobe bridge quick search tool (top right corner) will not allow me to perform a "windows desktop search: computer". let me rephrase, its performs the search however it always yields "no items" as the result. i actually requested help with this problem before and one user suggested i try relocating the cache to a different internal drive and doing so solved the problem that time BUT that isnt working this time. ive tried resetting bridge to its default settings but that doesnt work. i checked my pc settings to make sure windows desktop search is enabled and it is. i uninstalled and re-installed bridge and that didnt help. i also re-indexed my entire pc and that didnt help either. im just at a total loss. this is the most frustrating problem bcuz i used that quick search daily to find items by keyword and i can no longer do that unless i search folder by folder using the other drop down settings (Bridge Search: Current Folder & Windows Desktop Search: Current Folder). the quick search allowed me to search the entire pc by keyword and saved me alot of time. in case anyone is wondering, yes, the "FIND" tool in the EDIT menu works fine but again, i can only use that to search one location at a time whereas the quick search allowed me to search my entire pc with one click.

ive searched google endlessly and found that ALOT of users have the exact same issue with adobe bridge quick search and it seems no one has a definitive solution to this problem. does anyone have idea what could be causing this or how i can fix it? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

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Lumigraphics

Legend

I've found Bridge search to be hit or miss, regardless of which search index I use. It frequently fails to return results for files that are in a specific folder.

Why even have the user choose? Bridge should spawn multiple threads to search both its own index(es) and the system index. Just return any results.

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siddharthsingh

Participating Frequently

Hi @Snake Doctor,

I tried the Quick Search on Bridge 8.0.1.282 over a Windows x64 machine and I was able to search successfully using Bridge:Window desktop Search.

As mentioned in a reply by @Volkor Poth above, Bridge makes use of Windows Index to search the contents of the PC. If we don't have anything indexed in Windows, Bridge will not be able to find the files using Bridge:Window desktop Search.

Can you please confirm that the folders or drive which you want to search are included in the Windows search Index ?

Are you able to search the contents of the folder which you have opened in Bridge currently?

Thanks,

Siddharth

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strongtie_moises

Participant

Windows 10 users need to go to "Indexing Options" in Control Panel.

Click Modify and add the drives or specific folders you want Windows to Index then hit OK.

You will notice the number of indexed items increases [From Microsoft: When you first run indexing, it can take up to a couple of hours to complete. After that, indexing will run in the background on your PC as you use it, only re-indexing updated data.]. I left my computer running overnight.

In Bridge, search field set to "Windows Desktop Search: Current Folder" started working for me after doing the above. It also searches in subfolders.

Searching for part of a file name is no issue in Bridge. The issue I'm having now is with Microsoft File Explorer, searching for a part of a word requires you to add an asterisk * before what you are searching for.