Bridge: modify default columns shown in each workspace

[marcop26751878]

As per object. I find Adobe Bridge so good that I use it as my standard file explorer. When I'm not working with pictures I don't need to show columns like Keywords, rating and so on. It would be great to me to create a specific Workspace where I have just few columns in order to speed up the usability. 

At the moment I can't do that. 

Any help to get what I need. 

Thanx.

[jbm007]

Setup your workspace UI the way you want and then go to    windows/workspace/create new workspace  and it will save all your settings.

You can set multiple workspaces up.

[PECourtejoie]

Hello, can you tell us how you proceed, and what does not work?

[marcop26751878]

Tried several times. I'm using Bridge V11.

It looks like I can't specify my favourite columns in workspaces.

Is this really different for all of you?

[jbm007]

Tried what? Did you follow my suggestion?

I have two workspaces and can easily move between the two of them.

[marcop26751878]

Thanks for your reply and for your images. 

Thanks to your images I understand that I didn't explain myself well.

Maybe with few pictures I can explain myself better. Sorry.

[gary_sc]

Hi Marco,

In your screenshot you are showing just text and are showing the Folders Panel and the Content Panel. 

If this is what you want to see in the future and wish to get back to this view at any time, you can go to Window (menu) -> Workspace ->New Workspace... and create a name for this workspace.

Or am I missing what you want to do?

[marcop26751878]

Yes, that is what I need to use Adobe Bridge as a file explorer. It's a totally different thing (workspace) when I need to work on pictures.

[Guest]

Is your original question answered? I would like how to achieve it too. When I close some columns and save my workspace as a new workspace the shown columns revert back to the original again. When I left-click on a column it shows the option 'use column defaults'. Is there an option to change these defaults?

[jbm007]

Works as it supposed to here. I saved the workspace the exact same way as Marco 's screen shot.

jelmer try resetting your preferences and then setup your  UI the way you want it, with just a 2 columns and save the workspace when you have it all setup.

[Guest]

I did exactly what you suggested but still no luck. As soon as I save a my adjustments as a new workspace they are lost and the removed columns appear again. It is not a huge problem, but it doesn't make sense to me why this doesn't work. Thanks for your help.

[jbm007]

My suggestion at this point is to uninstall Bridge, reboot your machine and reinstall.

[Guest]

OK, I did that, but problem still exists. I even completely deleted Creative Cloud.

[jbm007]

Have you deleted your workspace and started over?

My only other suggestion is try logging on using a new uswer account with your OS.

See if you can create a new UI workspace and save it.

If that works something is buggered up in your registry.

[marcop26751878]

Hi, unfortunately I never fixed this problem. I no longer use Bridge as an "advanced" file navigator because of this. 

[Guest]

Do you still use it when working with pictures? Or do you use something else for that too?

[marcop26751878]

I switched to Lightroom Classic

[Guest]

Thanks. After trying the suggestions from jbm007 I'll give Lightroom Classic a shot. 

[marcop26751878]

Lightroom classic is very good, it's a pity that Adobe Bridge doesn't allow to personalize columns ad I wanted. It is great to give tags and make collection to files that are not photos so you can easily find them

[Tanu Goel]

Hi @marcop26751878 ,

Thank you for reporting the issue to us. We’ve added this to our engineering issue pipeline.

Regards,

Bridge Team

[Ruediger Glatz]

It would be wonderful, if you could implement this request, which would be essential for our company too.

We need to find a new picture browser for editing or managing our files and hope to find it at ADOBE with Bridge.

Two other features would extremly useful for us and probably many others too:

1. The option to select several folders and being able to order the files of those by date to rename or rate them

2. The option to add a folder to favorites being able to unfold it with its subfolders in the favorites navigation

[Jake206]

The good:  Bridge provides the ability to choose which columns to display and the order they appear on a Content panel, along with the ability to sort on any column's contents. 

The disappointing: there doesn’t seem to be any way to save these choices globally. 

Will we see this functionality anytime soon?