Bridge doesn't import in Lightroom CC

[FedeZNT]

Hello people,

when double-click on a photo on Bridge, it automatically opens lightroom,

before the image was already selected on Lightoom, so I clicked on import button and that'it.

Now it just launch the import window on Lightroom but the image is not selected anymore, so i have to find it out.

Do you have the same problem?

I have updated both software already

Thank you for your help 

[FedeZNT]

Hi, anybody can help? Still having this issue

Thank you 🙂

[gary_sc]

OK, this has to be the most unique issue I've heard this week. No, this month.

Something got screwed up with your file associations and I've no clue as to what happened, but I can help you get out of this issue (I hope!).

You need to go into Bridge's Preferences and select File Type Associations. Since I do not know if you take raw photos or what camera you have, I'm giving you a screenshot for jpg images. You have to do this for ANY image file type you might process, there's no "one fix fixes all" option, sorry. 

For any file type, on the right side it should show which application YOU want to open that file type up. I'm showing the new PS 24.0. As you can see from that options list, just about every potential application is there, but if you do not see what you expect to see, on the very bottom is "Browse." Select that and you'll get your standard Finder/Explorer window to select the application you want to open your images.

Please do get back to us and let us know if this helps or not. If this doesn't help, please add information such as what your OS is and what release.

 

[FedeZNT]

Thank you for your time on answer, but my fault, my message wasn’t clear. This is not the problem i have. Is another one, i try to be more clear:

For example in Bridge i open a folder when i have 300 raw files, and i start to select all my favourites one. I usually do not delete all of them I don’t like but leave there in the folder.

So i select maybe 100 raw, giving them 3 stars. I then filter the selection by stars so i have now only the 100 raw files out off 300.

Now i want to go on edit them on Lightroom, so i select all and double click on top, and what i was use to get on Lightroom was the import page with already selected to import the favourite 100/300.

But what happens now is that selection is not memorized on the import page on Lightroom so all the selection work i did on Bridge have been useless, and i have to select them again on the import page in Lightroom.

Hope my description was accurate and clear to understand. Thank you very much

[gary_sc]

Forgive me, but this is a bad workflow. If you're working in LR Classic, ALL of your work should be in LR Classic — and you're experiencing the primary reasons why.

Here's the deal. What happens in LRC is known by LRC. What happens OUTSIDE of LRC is unknown to LRC. Here's an example: select any image in LRC. Now, right-click on that image to display in Finder/Explorer. Note the name of that image and then change the name. Now go back to LRC and look at that image: you'll see a "!" for that image because now LCR has no clue as to where that image is. Now, click on that "!" right, click and select "Find the image." [Note: my wording here is by memory, but it should be close enough for this to make sense.] Find the newly set name, select it and LRC should be happy. (You can rename it back to what it was but do that IN LRC. (Library section, Library menu, rename photo.)

Please keep in mind that EVERYTHING you're doing in Bridge can be done in LRC, and in many ways, you can do it faster and better in LRC. Mind you, I'm a major Bridge user and fan, but I do use both A LOT!

Please google how to do all your ratings, rejections, etc., in LRC; you'll see how powerful it can be.

[FedeZNT]

Hi sir, thanks to answer.

But pardon me, but i have never said i don't know how to rate or anytime else in LRC.

You gave me an interesting explanation, but so, tell me please if you think they can do the same, why is the reason you use them both?

When they taught me, they said:

"Use Bridge -as a bridge software- between your folders and your editing software LRC"

and that is how I always did (almost 6 years) 

So to me always made sense to use bridge because when i just import the raw files i can quickly have a look at them, and also whenever i want to find a file jpeg for example, just by filtering i can easily find, whilst i guess in LRC it can find just files on the catalogue

or i should import them, am i correct?

However the point here is.

Bridge and LRC do communicate, is a fact. And i have always imported files opening them through Bridge.

Again, my problem is that if i select 100 files out of 300 in a folder trough Bridge and i have set it to take me to Lightroom, it doesn't remember the selected ones on Bridge but it asked me to choose them again.

So, since i've always did and it always worked and now it doesn't. This only means there is a Bug or i have some wrong settings , and i am here to try to understand how to get back to the previous setting.

I attach a photo to show what the problem is.

Thanks for the help

[Rahul Saraogi]

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

To better investigate the issue, could you please share the following information?

1. Bridge and Lightroom Classic version

2. A recording of the issue you are facing with the current version of Bridge you are using

3. As per your comments, it was working earlier but it is not working now. What was the version of Bridge with which your workflow was working?

Thanks, 

Bridge Team

[gary_sc]

Hi @FedeZNT 

Sorry, I've been away from the forums.

Whoever told you that you should "Use Bridge -as a bridge software- between your folders and your editing software LRC" gave you very poor advice.

The fact that it has "worked" for you is amazing. The sad fact is that you've been doing double duty when going back and forth from Bridge to LRC. All of the selection, editing, flagging, and labels that you did in Bridge can be done just as effectively, if not more so, in LRC. 

I use both applications almost daily, and I've been doing so since they both were released. The only advantage I can think of is that selecting which images to import into LRC decreases the import time into LRC. But you do that at the loss of spending time in both Bridge, followed by LRC.

If you do not believe me, please check with other LRC and Bridge experts. If you want referrals, I can send them. 

But, if this worked for you in the past, great. I do think that it's time you saved yourself time and energy and used each application to their individual strengths.