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I cannot find any option to sort folders first in Content window, they are still mixed with files.Is there a way to force folders display first?I'm on macOS and latest updates of all. 

Hi community,I have added a server volume to my Favorites. This server volume contains 11 shared volumes.(ok, they are large—several TBs each.)When I launch Bridge in the morning, the spinning cursor appears for a very long time before the shared folders finally display(4-6min.). On occasion, I have even quit and restarted Bridge in the interim. Is there a way to speed up the reading/displaying of this volume?Sure, Bridge naturally has to "check" what's there first, but it simply takes too long.My system specs are: Bridge v16.02, macOS v15.7.1, accessing a server via the Samba protocol (version? — would that be relevant?).I would be grateful for any tips.

I ran out of disk space on an external hard disk, so I moved a large folder of photographs to a different external disk. Now photographs that were in the original place are lost in an important bridge collection. I can relocate them one by one in Bridge using the “Fix” dialog, but there are hundreds to fix. Question 1: Is there any way to to point Bridge to the new location of the folder and tell it to fix all pointers to photographs in that folder? Question 2: I am solving my storage problem by buying new larger disks. How can I avoid the same problem when I move all photographs to a new disk? Thanks,Phil

Adobe Bridge photo downloader does not recognise my Canon R7 camera. I have tried some simple tips from the internet but nothing works. I have tried downloading images via a card reader as well as direct from the camera - neither work. I have downloaded the latest Bridge software. I have also tried Adobe Bridge Beta. I have an Apple Imac. My OS is up to date - Tahoe 26.4.1Any help and suggestions would be great !Thanks.Maggie 

Bridge still not workingmany times re-install and installI can not work whit-out bridge help please 

I got a new PC and on this I get a fail message when I try to download. Any idea why?

I have a folder full of photos and folders. I want to order all of them via date created, but Bridge keeps the folders and files firmly seperated, but I would like to manually mix them all together, for true chronological order. Is there a way to do this? 

Adobe Bridge displays “Initializing Video Library” in the status bar at bottom upon startup. This persists for 10-30 minutes. During this time, any click on the interface (e.g. Preferences) causes a beach ball (Adobe Bridge stops responding) for 30 to 120 seconds. I don’t use Adobe Bridge for video. Is there a way to completely disable the video library? (I’m not even sure what that is or why it takes up to a half hour to initialize, or what happens during initialization.) Mac Studio, Apple M2 Max, 64GB RAM, MacOS 14.8.3 (23J220)

After update to 9.0.2.219 x64 (Win 10) Bridge opens all kind of files in AfterEffects..psd, .jpg. .indd, .pdf, .xls you name it. ALL.Resseting file types associations - no change.Resseting all preferences (Ctrl+Alt+Shift start method) - no change.Any ideas?To be clear, opening from Windows finder works correctly, just double clicking inside Bridge opens AE.

I just got a notification that popped up on my M2 Macbook Air that components of Adobe Bridge will not work in a future macOS release. Does this mean Adobe will finally have to optimize Adobe Bridge and it’s features for Apple M chips? 

Only about 1/3 of my keyword list is importing into the 2026 Bridge. How can I get the rest of it in there? Here is what it should look like 

Sony ARW RAW files are not imported from Bridge 2026!!

I'm trying to switchover from Adobe Bridge to Lightroom for tracking and sorting photos. I have literally hundreds of keywords, lots of species and common names, in Bridge.  I need a proper photo catalog again, and Lightroom is what's there.  But....it turns out Bridge will happily export those keywords to an .xml or .txt file, but Lightroom will not import them directly because Lightroom disallows punctuation characters in keywords.But after I worked with text edit to remove/replace all of the forbidden characters, and imported the xml file into Lightroom, it did import them, but kept all the formatting stuff...So each of these lines came out as keywords<?xml version="10" encoding="UTF 8" standalone="yes" ?><keywords version="2">    <set name="Characteristic" disclosed="false">        <item name="Geolocator screenshot" />        <item name="inset closeup" />        <item name="Landscape" />        <set name="macro" disclosed="true">           

I had to install the old version of Adobe Bridge 16.0.0 MacBook Pro i7 and sonoma 14.8.5 version 16.0.3 won't start!

Or, "How many ways can you screw it up?" Let's look at some of the "enhancements" that Adobe has made from Bridge 2022 in Bridge 2023 (for Windows).Editing the description field. It USED to be that you could type [Ctrl] + [Enter] to commit a change. No more! Adobe has "improved" it by making it seemingly impossible to commit input via the keyboard, and making you move to the mouse (because evewybody likes mousies) and click on the tick icon near the bottom.Clipboard integration. What is going on with that? You can select a description or a set of keywords and bang away on [Ctrl]+[C] until your fingers bleed and it WILL NOT pick the content up into the clipboard. The only way it works is if you select Copy from the right click menu, because once again, evewybody likes mousies and this software wasn't designed, if I can use that word, for adults. This also results in a ridiculous number of visits from the incredibly annoying "Apply Metadata?" dialog, which you can tell Bridge not to

I’m having a problem editing the Document Title metadata in my Photoshop psd file, so I decided to try  it in Bridge. I’m not familiar with Bridge, and I’m having a problem figuring out how to actually edit the metadata. I would appreciate it if someone could help me. I can get to the metadata pane of my file in Bridge. But I can’t seem to find a way to actually see the data in the document title field or edit it. Here’s a screenshot of what I am seeing. I see the field to edit, but I can’t seem to figure out how to edit it. Nothing I click on seems to bring up the area I can edit. Can someone help me out here? Thanks.Jeff I see the field to edit, but I can’t seem to figure out how to edit it.  

Is this due to lack of space on my Starch drive and or my main hard drive?

Opening Bridge (the latest v.) resulted in old workspaces (MBP Pro M2). Restore of SavedWorkspaces from a TM Bup didn’t help. ChatGPT’s advices didn’t work. What can I do?

I have a bunch of camera photos that did not get GPS coordinates while shooting. I want to manually add the coordinates in Bridge but I can’t seem to do this. First off, I am aware that Bridge uses a specific format for its format because I keep getting this: I have the information and format that is required and can add one coordinate, Lattitude, I can't just click in the Longitude section to add that info without getting the above warning. Is there a way to turn that off so I can add the second coordinate? Is there a better way to do this?  I don’t really know why this should be so difficult. Your help would really be appreciated. Jonathan  

Hello everyone,I have recently transitioned from Windows 11 to a Mac Mini M4, using a Mac keyboard and a Keychron M6 mouse. On Windows, I relied heavily on FastStone Image Viewer because of its speed and intuitive navigation.Since moving to macOS, I have tried XnView; while it allows for mouse wheel navigation, I found it has other limitations compared to what I’m used to in FastStone. I would much prefer to use Adobe Bridge, but I am struggling with the mouse controls.Specifically, I would like to use the mouse wheel to scroll to the next or previous image. Currently, it seems that the mouse wheel, along with the left and right mouse buttons, are all defaulted to zooming/enlarging functions. Having three different physical inputs dedicated to the same magnifying action feels redundant for my workflow, and I would much prefer to reassign the wheel to navigation.Is there a setting I am missing to enable "Mouse Wheel to Next/Previous Image" in Bridge? If this isn't natively supported in

Bridge launches normally however is very very slow and does not work properly when not connected to the internet. It nowhere states that Bridge must be connected to the internet to work properly. I am not talking about launching or verifying subscription. Is there some setting that I must change?

I would really like to copy / paste keywords. I have several photos from a fitness shoot where I separate keywords by amenity, equipment, exercises, etc. Many times, we circle back and do the same exercise as early just later in the day in a different location. I like to view my photos in the Filmstrip, so I don't see the exercises we'll be repeating in a grid view.Is there a way to copy / paste keywords so that I don't have to click the boxes for each individual photo as I scroll through the photos in Filmstrip view?

I have the problem that Bridge photo downloader duplicates my files, so that I have to manually go through and delete every second image after the import. Any Idea what might be causing this? Camera is Fuji X-H2. Bridge Version 16.03

I have just tried to open Adobe Bridge 2026 and this message comes up: You can't open the application "Adobe Bridge 2026" because it may be damaged or incomplete. can anyone tell me how two fix this please?Thanks