Adobe Bridge doesnt let me rate photos

Don't rate photos on the memory card!!!!!!

Copy them to the computer and then do your rating. Editing on the card is asking for data corruption.

Hi Toritours,

Here's the issue: the Mac requires the user to OK any actions that any application does outside of what Apple thinks should be standard locations. So, Photo applications can access things in the Pictures folder but pretty much not anywhere else. So, you have to go into the Security & Privacy section of the System Preferences and let Bridge have access to those cards. The catch to this is every time you reformat the cards; you're likely to have to do that again the next time you want to do your rating.

But there's a bigger issue: DO NOT DO THINGS LIKE RATING ON THE CARD. 

Sorry for the capital letters, but think of this as essential (and not shouting).

Look, I do not work for Adobe; most of the people on these forums and I do this because we like to help folks. I can't tell you the number of times people ask for help because they were doing things on their camera card instead of transferring the images to their computer and THEN doing what they want with the images.

If you want, I can give a full list of reasons for this but suffice it to say, those images on your card are the only ones in existence. So if ANYTHING should happen to the images on that card or the card itself, the images are GONE.

What you should do, what you need to do is to transfer the images to your computer, then back them up to another device, then you can reformat the images in the camera (do not reformat the card on your computer — please).

Please, do not consider that I'm saying you're doing anything wrong. Instead, consider I'm pointing out a workflow that will have fewer issues than what you're doing. It's really sad when people come on these forums looking for a miracle to recover their images.

It's your call.

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