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Beckerwood
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January 26, 2020
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Bridge is turning my folder invisible!

  • January 26, 2020
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I have a folder tree full of sorted pictures.  After I updated to Catalina, I also installed Bridge 10.  When I open the folders with Bridge, it turns the top folder invisible.  Not only that, the navigation goes all to hell, drag and drop stops working, and "move to" moves items to the wrong folders!  I have tried:

 

  • Creating a new folder with a new name and putting the files in there.
  • Deleting the invisible ".Bridgesort" files.
  • Resetting Bridge.
  • Reinstalling Bridge.
  • Updating Bridge

 

I can't recreate the problem without Bridge being involved, so it seems like this is Adobe's fault. Bridge will not stop turning my folder invisible.  What is going on here?

 

 

 

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gary_sc
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gary_scCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2020

Hi Beckerwood,

 

One real quicky question: you show you named the folder ".Bridgesort"

 

What happens if you name the folder "Bridgesort" without the period?

 

Both Periods (.) and slashes (/) are very bad things to use in names. Hyphens (-) and Underscores (_) are much better separators (besides the simple Space ( )).

 

Let us know,

 

 

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    BeckerwoodAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    January 27, 2020

    I didn't rename the file which turned invisible ".bridgesort".  The file which turned invisible was called "Paul".  At first I thought it had been deleted.  However, when I searched in spotlight I still saw the files inside it. Then, I pressed command-shift-period to reveal invisible files.  There was "Paul".  I created a new folder called "Gary", put all the contents of Paul inside Gary, and deleted Paul. After some more experimenting, Bridge turned Gary invisible too.  Somewhere in there I started noticing that Bridge was leaving behind invisible files in many of my folders called ".bridgesort".  If I delete them and then revisit the folders with Bridge, Bridge will create new ones.  I assume that they are supposed to make Bridge faster or remember preferences or something.

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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    January 30, 2020

    It's not a feature!  It's a bug!  And it ONLY happens when I try to use ADOBE BRIDGE!  And I don't know how to reverse it other than to trash and replace the folder.


    I haven't seen any other reports of this and Bridge can't toggle the invisibility bit. Unless you are adding a dot in front of the folder name, Bridge CAN'T make folders invisible.

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