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Hello,
Thank you for reaching out to us.
You can now create multiple content panels, instead of creating multiple windows in Bridge 2023.
Please refer the following link for the known features/issues - https://helpx.adobe.com/bridge/kb/known-issues.html
Thanks,
Bridge Team
More specifically, you want to choose File > New Content Tab, and if you want to detach that tab and drag it to another location or another display, drag the tab. [UPDATE — August 4, 2023: New Window is back, in a beta version for user testing. For more info, go to: Adobe Bridge Beta is now available (14.0.0.57)]
Hi,
The latest Beta build 14.0.0.57 brings back support for 'Multiple Windows' along with a few new features.
For a complete list of features available in the Beta build, please refer to the community post :
https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/adobe-bridge-beta-is-now-available-14-0-0-57/td-p/13986216
We would love for you to try it out and share feedback.
Regards,
Bridge Team
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Hi, @Chris218117816j4a, I do this all the time, and, and fact, I find it much easier to do this with multiple Tabs than multiple Windows. I'm not saying that multiple windows should not be restored — they should be. But please do not deny yourself an opportunity to try a different approach that I find much easier.
Here's what I do: in the parent folder of images, create subfolders of the catetories you want to work with. Let's say you have a bunch of pictures of animals; dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc. Now, make a folder for each of them.
At this point, you'll want to stretch out the Content Panel to be wide, as wide as you can; maybe remove unnecessary columns depending on how many folders you have. If you sort by time of creation, the folders should be on the top of the screen.
Now, right click on a folder and select the option to "Open in New Content Tab." Do this for all of your folders.
Now, click on an image of (say) cats, and drag it to the name of the Cat's folder, this will shift the view of the folders to the Cats folder, and drop the image in there. Now, click back to the primary folder and continue. If you see a string of cat images, simply shift-click the string and do the same thing. If you see cat, dog, cat, lizard, fish, cat, etc., simply Command/Control click the just the cat images and do the same thing.
The one possible limitation on this is that depending on the amount of ram your computer has, you may get a message that Bridge has run out of room. If that happens, delete one of the tabs, and continue.
For an extended view of what can be done, please check out this thing I wrote some time back.
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.
Of course. We all agree that those aren’t mutually exclusive, and nothing in my reply disagrees with getting multiple windows back. I was simply replying to their question of “what else changed.”
There is a some confusion and imprecise terminology being thrown around in this thread. To be clear, multiple floating content views in Bridge 2023 are possible by undocking multiple Content tabs as floating panels, so that you can see content from multiple sources as shown below. The real problem, what we specifically lost, is having more than one instance of any panel (for example, seeing a separate Folders, Metadata, and Preview panel tied to each Content panel) so that we can work with content in parallel. The picture below shows my perspective on what was lost, it might not account for every problem though.
One of the problems this causes is shown on the right: A panel might display information for a Content panel that is not the one in the single application window, which can be confusing. In the example shown, the source shown in the Folders panel is not for the Content tab next to it, but for a separate, floating Content panel some distance away.
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