When I plug in my Western Digital USB drives, the new Bridge can see the drive, but not any files or folders on the drive. Previous versions had not problem with these exact drives. I can still access everything through Finder, but doing so doesn't get them linked in Bridge. I have tried this from nikunj.m
going "to the System Preferences for macOS, then navigate to Security and Privacy and select the Privacy tab. Add Bridge 2020 under the Accessibilty list and grant permissions to Bridge under Files and Folders.
Once you have made the changes, restart the computer"
That did not help either.
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Let me add the following (the screenshots are from High Sierra but they cover the same issues all the way to Big Sur:
Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (last tab). Now click on the lock on the bottom left and provide your Administrator code. Now select the Full Disk Access option and click on the "+" symbol. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window and let you add any application you want or need to
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Hi Michael,
Thank you for trying that 1st approach. Can you please try this 2nd one:
In the Finder select the folder that you're documents/images are contained in and press Command-i (i for information). A new window will pop up on the left side of the screen. On the bottom you will see a region called "Sharing & Permissions:"
To do anything here, you need to unlock the padlock on the bottom right. Click it and a window will pop up asking you for your authorization (your Mac password). Once that's done, click on the "Everyone" and on the right change "Read only," to "Read & Write."
Now, if there are folders inside this, go to the dropdown gear below and select "Apply to enclosed items..." and you can save yourself some time.
HOWEVER: be judicious when you do this. This should ONLY be done if there are nothing but documents inside these folders. Never EVER do this if there are applications or preferences or other application-related files. Don't ask me how I know this to be true. Otherwise, I do this all the time as necessary. It's probably a good idea to not do this to a drive as a whole.
Please let us know how this works out,
I formatted these drive for Mac OS Extended Journaled when I bought them a few years ago. Again, Bridge CS5 + the previous OS worked with these drives perfectly. But now that I run OS Catalina and had to upgrade to Bridge 2020, I'm having this issue. I even tried unistalling Bridge, restarting the Macbook, reinstalling Bridge, and restarting the Macbook again per jbm007's suggestion, but still the same issue. (I tried that first with keeping the preferences, then again trashing the preferences.) Yes the files appear in Finder; I can navigate and even open them from there.
I appreciate this help.
Let me add the following (the screenshots are from High Sierra but they cover the same issues all the way to Big Sur:
Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (last tab). Now click on the lock on the bottom left and provide your Administrator code. Now select the Full Disk Access option and click on the "+" symbol. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window and let you add any application you want or need to have full access. Look for Bridge, select it, it will now appear in that window and make sure it's checked. Next go to the Files and Folders option and do the same thing as above (although there's nothing to check, just add. Close everything down and see if that makes it all work.
Please let me know
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