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FedeZNT
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June 20, 2020
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Bridge doesn't import in Lightroom CC

  • June 20, 2020
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Hello people,

when double-click on a photo on Bridge, it automatically opens lightroom,

before the image was already selected on Lightoom, so I clicked on import button and that'it.

Now it just launch the import window on Lightroom but the image is not selected anymore, so i have to find it out.

Do you have the same problem?

I have updated both software already

Thank you for your help 

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gary_sc
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gary_scCommunity Expert
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October 20, 2022

OK, this has to be the most unique issue I've heard this week. No, this month.

 

Something got screwed up with your file associations and I've no clue as to what happened, but I can help you get out of this issue (I hope!).

 

You need to go into Bridge's Preferences and select File Type Associations. Since I do not know if you take raw photos or what camera you have, I'm giving you a screenshot for jpg images. You have to do this for ANY image file type you might process, there's no "one fix fixes all" option, sorry. 

 

For any file type, on the right side it should show which application YOU want to open that file type up. I'm showing the new PS 24.0. As you can see from that options list, just about every potential application is there, but if you do not see what you expect to see, on the very bottom is "Browse." Select that and you'll get your standard Finder/Explorer window to select the application you want to open your images.

 

Please do get back to us and let us know if this helps or not. If this doesn't help, please add information such as what your OS is and what release.

 

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    FedeZNTAuthor
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    October 20, 2022

    Thank you for your time on answer, but my fault, my message wasn’t clear. This is not the problem i have. Is another one, i try to be more clear:

    For example in Bridge i open a folder when i have 300 raw files, and i start to select all my favourites one. I usually do not delete all of them I don’t like but leave there in the folder.

    So i select maybe 100 raw, giving them 3 stars. I then filter the selection by stars so i have now only the 100 raw files out off 300.

    Now i want to go on edit them on Lightroom, so i select all and double click on top, and what i was use to get on Lightroom was the import page with already selected to import the favourite 100/300.

    But what happens now is that selection is not memorized on the import page on Lightroom so all the selection work i did on Bridge have been useless, and i have to select them again on the import page in Lightroom.

     

    Hope my description was accurate and clear to understand. Thank you very much

    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
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    October 20, 2022

    Forgive me, but this is a bad workflow. If you're working in LR Classic, ALL of your work should be in LR Classic — and you're experiencing the primary reasons why.

     

    Here's the deal. What happens in LRC is known by LRC. What happens OUTSIDE of LRC is unknown to LRC. Here's an example: select any image in LRC. Now, right-click on that image to display in Finder/Explorer. Note the name of that image and then change the name. Now go back to LRC and look at that image: you'll see a "!" for that image because now LCR has no clue as to where that image is. Now, click on that "!" right, click and select "Find the image." [Note: my wording here is by memory, but it should be close enough for this to make sense.] Find the newly set name, select it and LRC should be happy. (You can rename it back to what it was but do that IN LRC. (Library section, Library menu, rename photo.)

     

    Please keep in mind that EVERYTHING you're doing in Bridge can be done in LRC, and in many ways, you can do it faster and better in LRC. Mind you, I'm a major Bridge user and fan, but I do use both A LOT!

     

    Please google how to do all your ratings, rejections, etc., in LRC; you'll see how powerful it can be.

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    FedeZNTAuthor
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    October 20, 2022

    Hi, anybody can help? Still having this issue

     

    Thank you 🙂

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