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Carson Jones
Carson Jones
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Jan 6, 2023 3:06 PM UTC
Question

New Bridge Content Tab is awful...

I've been using Adobe products professionaly for over 20 years.  Please stop making your apps worse by 'making them better'.  The new Bridge Content Tab behaviour is problematic since it doesn't actually load folders as users right-click and choose Browse in Adobe Bridge 2023.  It'll open one but not subsequent folders.  I've uninstalled it (now for the second time since the initial release wouldn't work with Image Processor in Photoshop).

 

Again Adobe - your software is used by professionals who make their living and support their families with it.  Stop using your customers as a trouble-shooting platform to fix issues that should been caught in a beta program.

 

Very frustrating.

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    gary_sc
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    gary_scCommunity Expert
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    Jan 7, 2023 5:36 PM UTC

    HI @Carson Jones, I'm sorry, but I'm not following what you're doing with Tabs that is unsuccessful for you.

     

    As one who's used Adobe Bridge since it was first released in 2005, I, and many others, have been asking for Tabs from the beginning. Obviously, no one but Adobe knew how they'd be implemented, and I assure you that the loss of multiple Windows was never part of our wish. From what I've heard, the Adobe engineers are working on replacing multiple Windows but no one knows when they will arrive. 

     

    Below is a current model for various ways of using the Tabs in Bridge. This may not satisfy all your needs, but it might provide some ideas and approaches that may work for you.

     

    As far as Image Processor goes, that's not Bridge's fault, it's how the applications were installed: the scripts for that are provided by Photoshop. When PS is being installed, it looks for a compatible version of Bridge. If it does not find one, it cannot install the scripts. By this, I mean that if you've put in Bridge 2023 and you're installing PS 2022 next, the scripts will not be installed. If you installed PS 2023 AND THEN installed Bridge, the scripts again will not be installed — order is important.

     

    Here are some guidlines as to how to work with Tabs in Bridge 2023

     

    New Workflows

     

    If you look at the Content Panel, note the hamburger menu on the right-hand side (three horizontal lines). To the left of the Hamburger menu, you'll see a plus (+) (red arrow). If you click on that, you'll get a new Content Panel. If you click on the option in the Hamburger menu for a new Content Panel (green arrow), you'll also get a new Content Panel.


    The primary disadvantage of these two options currently is that either will default to a "home" position and are not likely to provide access to the folder you want. Fortunately, for any Content Panel that is active (note the blue square and blue line circling the Panel), if you go to the Recent icon in the icons on top, if you select a folder from there, it will open up in that Content Panel.

     

     

    Likewise, if you select a folder from the Folders Panel. In addition, if you take an image or a folder and drag it to the Bridge icon in the Dock, THAT folder will open in the active Content Panel. Hopefully, soon they will provide both "Open" and "Recent" options in the Hamburger menu.

     

     

    If you have a folder with other sub-folders, you can always right-click on one of the subfolders, and it can be opened in a new Content Panel

     

     

    Once you have two or more Content Panels, you can drag from one to the other by simply mouse-down on an image (or all selected images), then move the mouse up to the title area of the other Content Panel to make it the active Panel and release. IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE before you do anything, then Comand/Control-z and you'll be good.

     

     

    Note also that extra Content Panels can be placed and/or moved to any other location in the Bridge window.

     

     

    I hope this explains some of the new workflows available to you.

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      katsoulis
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      Jan 7, 2023 10:10 PM UTC

      These "new workflows" are not helpful to many, including myself. Many of us, like you, have been using Bridge since it was first released in 2005 and became fascile and fluent with the process of using two or more windows at a time, which allow easy navigation via folders.

      To remove this method is to force users who are fluent in one language to suddenly learn another — and that is generous since the TAB setup is NOT the same and removes a key feature many, many users used daily. 

      No one minds tabs or the functionality they may provide. What many of us mind is the critical functionality that has been removed. Functionality we literally use every day. The solution offered all over this forum, to downgrade to the previous version, is a temporary solution and one which will eventually clock out as it Bridge 2022 becomes unsupported. It is an anxiety producting situation. Adobe, and you, should know that a UI creates a mindspace and that making such a monumental change is destablizing. This is not a small matter.

      You said that from what you've heard, "the Adobe engineers are working on replacing multiple Windows but no one knows when they will arrive." Where did you hear this? Communication is key and it is often sorely lacking. If Adobe is, indeed, working on bringing the functionality of multple windows back, communicting that to users would be exceedingly helpful and a relief. Not communicating that clearly leaves users in the dark and deeply frustrated.

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        lauradubroc
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        Apr 12, 2023 7:41 PM UTC

        AMEN to this comment as well! Why do they do this!!!

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