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Bridge 2023 -External Drive - Move instead of Copy from Finder

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 25, 2022
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Hello,

I dragged a file from a finder window located on an external hard drive to a folder in my main HD opened in Bridge window and it was moved instead of being automatically copied as it should.

I believe this is bug.

Shlomit

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Rahul Saraogi

Community Manager

Hi,

The mentioned issue is fixed in the latest patch release #13.0.1.583. Please install and confirm if that fixes the issue.
You can refer to the issues fixed in the patch at the following link https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/fixed-issues.html

Thanks,
Bridge Team

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adampricephoto

Inspiring

Rahul, yes the patch fixed it for me! Thanks!

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adampricephoto

Inspiring

2018 Mac Mini, macOS 13.0....same issue as OP. Files move even when moving between different drives. Such a strange bug!

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Lumigraphics

Legend

You have to copy/paste rather than drag. Yes its a PITA bug.

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active_Cascade0101

Participating Frequently

Same issues here... clearly a bug in the new release. Somewhat alarming to discover your files are missing from the original source (in my case, external card drive after dragging to computer hard drive). In the meantime, just right click the files and use the "copy to" command, which does work (in Windows 10 anyway).

Another annying bug is that the file directory in Bridge keeps automatically scrolling to the top, as opposed to where one leaves off, making moving files more difficult still.

Lots of great stuff in the new release, but hope these issues can be fixed soon.

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jwk1940

Participating Frequently

I'm having the same issues also. I drag and drop from main hd to external hd to back up my files. Fortunately I noticed my files were being moved and not copied before I lost any of them. Yes I also find it annoying when I open Bridge it scrolls to the top to Desktop instead of where I left off under My PC. I thought updates were supposed to make things better, not worse. I ended up going back to the previous Bridge and Photoshop. They work as they should. Hopefully Adobe will fix these issues.

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ilzelucerophoto

Participant

I'm having the same issue. The only way now to deal is select files and then Ctrl+C Ctrl+V in the new folder. This is really buggung me tho

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Lumigraphics

Legend

My workflow is to drag files from the Content pane to a folder in Favorites. I use a small set of folders and do this all day long. The correct (and previously used) behavior is to copy to an external drive, copy with the cmd/ctrl key held down (the cursor has a + sign) and move to the same drive with no modifier keys.

Bridge 2023 ALWAYS moves files, I can't get it to copy either with the cmd/ctrl key or to an external volume. This bug alone prevents me from using Bridge 2023 in production.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Hi Shlomit,

I'm sorry, but I tried to replicate your problem, and I cannot. (I'm on a Mac Studio running 12.6)

If you have "Path Bar" checked from the Windows menu (in Bridge), where are the images in Bridge.

This is what I see when I look at the files I placed on my desktop

And this is what I see when I look at the same files that I had on an external drive (they are still there).

Let me know what you see.

Shlomit HeymannAuthor

Inspiring

Hi Gary,

I made some screenshot hoping to explain it better.

When I drag a file located on my External drive from a finder window to a floder in Bridge that is located on my main Hard drive, I don't see the "+" sign as I usually see when dragging a file that is not located on the same Hard drive. That's when the file is moved. By natrual it should be automatically copied.

But

When I do the opposite, i.e. dragging a file from the same folder on my main HD in a Bridge window, to the same folder on the External hard drive, the "+" sign do appear and the file will be copied.

Drag and drop should behave the same on both directions but it's not and it used to be before.

Thank you,

Shlomit

Agib D

Participant

Hello Shlomit,

I can confirm the behavior.

No matter if you drag the files from the Finder into the bridge or select an external drive within the bridge: The data is moved and not copied (as it should be!).

This is not the usual Finder behavior and it´s very annoying because you could accidentally delete data. I hope this will be fixed quickly.

Greetings

Agi

My system:
Mac Studio M1 Max
macOS Monterey 12.6