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

[Shlomit Heymann]

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

[Shlomit Heymann]

As i'm unable to edit my post here are my computer details:

Mac Pro (Late 2013)

macOS Monterey 12.6 (21G115)

[Lumigraphics]

This is apparently a known bug, there were notes at some point in the beta about drag and drop only allowing move and not copy.

[gary_sc]

Lumi, I'm not seeing that. I tried both D&D, Move to…, and Copy to…

Each one is working as expected on my system.

[Lumigraphics]

Apparently they removed the post about the beta. It had this bug listed for drag operations (not using menu items to copy.)

Drag a file to a folder in Favorites, it will only move not copy.

[gary_sc]

Wha?? Favorites is an alias.

Dang, I dragged a folder of two images from my Dekstop to a Favorites folder and the folder was MOVED to an external drive. That's crazy, makes no sense. I then dragged it from the Content Panel back to my Desktop and it Copied it (which it should).

But this is not what Shlomit identified as an issue, just another issue. (And I cannot replicate Shlomit's issue.)

[Lumigraphics]

I'm not sure exactly what is broken but... something... note the known issues.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/an-update-for-the-adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-availab...

[Shlomit Heymann]

it is written there:

Top fixed issues: 

• Copy is not working using drag/drop

Obviously was NOT fixed...

[Shlomit Heymann]

I think it happend to me too. I just thought I did something wrong and moved on until my problem was repeating itself...

[gary_sc]

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 Heymann]

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]

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

[perg86185128]

Hi Shlomit,

I too can confirm the move instead of copy "feature". But for me this is quite convenient every time I move images from my camera SDHC-cards! Why not make this selectible in the preferences!!

[Lumigraphics]

This would go against platform UI guidelines for how drag-and-drop works on both Mac and Windows.

[perg86185128]

Yes, that is true. But after fixxing this issue, maybe the Bridge devs could implement a modifier key like alt/opt that would move files instead of copy? Would be a time saver for me!

[Joel xo]

On Mac, holding down Command while dragging to another volume will force it to move instead of copy (holding down Option while dragging to another folder on the same drive will force a copy)

Note that I haven't tested this on 2023, where nothing works quite like it should

[Joel xo]

Actually, I just checked and Option does work to return the expected behavior (copying instead of moving when dragging to another volume) but shouldn't be necessary–this is still a bug.

[Lumigraphics]

Its broken on Windows.

[Lumigraphics]

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.

[ilzelucerophoto]

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

[active_Cascade0101]

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.

[jwk1940]

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.

[adampricephoto]

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

[Lumigraphics]

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

[Rahul Saraogi]

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