Bridge Changes

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November 19, 2022
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Have not used bridge for a while but wanted to check my external drive for some images. YIKES, it took forever and I still coounld not access my images on my external drive. I used to be able too, what am I missing? LIke Bridge for the ability to view all images but it is not opening...

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gary_sc

Community Expert

This is not the fault of Adobe or anyone; this is Apple making sure that applications that have not been given permission to access areas of your computer cannot access those areas of your computer.

[Note: if you are using Ventura, the look of this has changed. But what I show below is sufficient for you to figure out what you need to do.] 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, and 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

[Note: these images are from an older OS, the process is the same.]

Close everything up, and you should be good to go.

coventrybirdAuthor

Known Participant

Yes, this worked. Thank you so much. One more question. Because I have someone who knows. When I open my Adobe cloud file and all the apps show up there are 6 versions of every app. Is there a reason for that? I would assume I only need one right? Just bugs me looking at all of them.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Well, I know a few things; I sure wished I knew a lot more.

Regarding the number of application versions on your computer, that's up to you, your workflow, and your needs.

The negative of multiple applications is that they take up space. This can be more than just storage space on your hard drive but also list space, such as when you click on "Open in…" in Bridge. If you have six versions of Photoshop, they will be listed; if you only had (say) two versions of PS listed, that's all you'd see for that.

The positive is that they give you an immediate fallback if something or some feature has been removed in a more recent version of your application. For example, PS's 3D feature is being fazed out because of changes in the operating systems that make it impossible to continue; as such various parts of 3D are being eliminated in each new version. So, at some point, even older versions will not function, but in the meantime… Similarly, if you're on a Mac, the latest versions of Adobe software will work on the M1 computers, but not all Plugins have been converted yet. So, if you want to use an older Plugin, you'll need to use the Rosetta version of the software, which cannot be done if you're using the M1 version of the application.

Overall, I do not keep any backup versions for some applications, such as Premier Pro. This is because I do not use that enough to know what I'd be missing if something was wrong with the latest. Also, I just keep the current version of LRC because every time they upgrade the database in LRC and I update my LRC catalog, that catalog cannot be opened in the previous version. However, I do keep several versions of PS for more reasons than I need to list here.

So, each application has different reasons for what I need to keep.

HTH.

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