Connecting Bridge to Adobe Cloud space

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October 16, 2024
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I've a 1Tb Lightroom subscription and have been trying to import my photos from Google Photos. It's been extremely painful, something that feels like it should be a breeze is nearly impossible.

Having got some of my photos onto Adobe cloud space, I came across Bridge and was excited that it could potentially help. But it doesn't connect to Adobe Cloud.

I really don't understand it. Bridge seems to be Adobe's tool for sorting metadata and moving files around - yet it doesn't talk to their own cloud storage. It looks like they used to have folder syncing in the creative cloud app, but have since removed it. I also don't understand that.

My subscription was sold as somewhere I can put my photos to sort them all out but it feels like Adobe really don't want me to use the cloud space I bought. If I was adobe I'd be hooking up all my products to my clould storage and encouraging people to use as much cloud space as possible.

Am I missing something??

So this is kind of a feature request (for Bridge to connect to Adobe Cloud) but also a question - is there a reason why it doesn't already.

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Correct answer Lumigraphics

Bridge and Lightroom Classic are designed to work with LOCAL files, not cloud or network.

If you need cloud storage and integration, use Lightroom Desktop.

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LumigraphicsCorrect answer

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Bridge and Lightroom Classic are designed to work with LOCAL files, not cloud or network.

If you need cloud storage and integration, use Lightroom Desktop.

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I AM using Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. (That's why I said 1Tb Lightroom subscription) Bridge is one of the apps that's listed as 'included as part of my plan' under the Your plans page (even though it's a freebie anyway). As I said, I wanted to ask if my assumption that it only works with local files is right.

I also explained that Lightroom desktop, isn't particually great at importing and handling meta data, and said it's disapointing that Adobe don't update Bridge to be cloud aware. It looks to be a decent product, it wouldn't be a lot of effort to dump output on their cloud rather than local storage.

The Adobe product range at the moment seems all over the place. It looks like they got half way through cloud enabling their product line, then saw AI and down tools and jumped on that bandwagon. I've not used really Adobe products for about 20+ years, back then they were very innovative and far ahead of the competition. From what I've seen in the last week, they appear to have lost the plot.

So thanks for confirming my assumption. It speaks volumes that your response has been marked as the correct response, rather than Adobe giving a response that explains their strategy.

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Lumigraphics

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It IS the correct response, with what you can get today. Bridge is for local files. It always has been. Will that change? Who knows. And expecting a technology company to explain their strategy is a fool's errand. You can't plan around vaporware.

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