My entire hard drive ended up in Bridge

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March 20, 2020
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Not sure how this happened, but I mistakenly uploaded my entire hard drive and basically everything on my MAC into Bridge. I realized that if I delete any folders, they delete off my hard drive as well. Any ideas how to start over so I'm only using it for photography?

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gary_sc

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I've got great news for you; nothing's wrong. Bridge is simply a media viewer, nothing else. It shows whatever it's looking at and right now it's looking at your hard drive.

you do not say if you are on a Mac or PC, but get yourself into Explorer or the Finder and drag any folder onto the Bridge icon. Now your looking at the contents of that folder.

I assume you know the location of the folder that all your photos are in. Find that and drag that onto your Bridge icon. You'll be ok.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Susafrans,

Just wanted to add that I wrote a 3 part "lesson" on Bridge for Adobe some time back. While a certain amount of the information in this is out of date, the bulk of it is not and should also be of assistance to you.

here's a link to part 1:

Bridge Part 1: Making Bridge Work for You - Customizing the Interface(November 11, 2016)

https://forums.adobe.com/community/creativepipeline/blog/2016/11/11/bridge-part-1-making-bridge-work-for-you-customizing-the-interface

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susafransAuthor

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Hi Gary,

Thanks so much for getting back to me! For some reason I was denied access to your article.

The main thing I'm trying to do is get rid of everything from my hard drive on Bridge, so I can just use it for photography. Obviously deleting folders isn't the way to go!

Thoughts?

Cheers, Susanna

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