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Bridge can't interact with directories containing a question mark

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
March 14, 2021
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This took me quite a while to figure out, but Bridge 11 seems to have serious problems dealing with any directories that have a question mark in their name. If you try to open such a directory by dragging it onto Bridge, it does nothing. If you manually navigate to the directory and try to open a file, it does nothing.

I'm using:

* MacOS Catalina 10.15.7

* Adobe Bridge 11.0.1.109

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MarkTaylor88

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I discovered the same problem today. If there is a question mark in the folder name, Bridge is unable to find photos within it by searching metadata, and changing the metadata causes thumbnails to turn blank (white), and other weirdness. Even if question marks are not allowed, Bridge should inform the user rather than just failing to work properly.

mike boruta

Known Participant

Agreed! If Bridge would've just told me that I couldn't use "?" in my file or folder name I would have saved a lot of time trying to figure out why my workflow didn't work.

gary_sc

Community Expert

There are very, very, very few applications* that do point that out. I do know that FileMaker Pro will not let you use a hyphen in a calculation, but that's a calculation, not a name. (To get around that limitation, I use an "n" dash.)

*In reality, I do not know ANY application that does; I'm just giving myself an out if someone says that XXX does.

jbm007

Community Expert

Works just fine here.

Big Slur 11.2.3

Adobe Bridge 11.0.1.109

Could be a OS issue.

gary_sc

Community Expert

That's because the Mac OS and Window's OS both cannot use "illegal characters" in file names, folder names, etc.

? / . * are amongst them.

Here's more info:

https://www.mtu.edu/umc/services/websites/writing/characters-avoid/

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BridgeUser666Author

Participant

@gary_sc That's not true. The only characters you can't use for directories in MacOS are : and /. I've been using question marks in directories for years and it's not a problem for any other program. (It also worked fine with Adobe Bridge until recently.)

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Lumigraphics

Legend

Its generally a bad idea to use question marks and with Bridge being cross-pllatform, I'm not surprised. Just change those folder names.

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