Bridge Smart Collections - do they work or not?

[anthonyp7297936]

I've read a few discussion threads about people having problems with Smart Collections not displaying all the items.  I have an example here where I have two folders containing pics from a location, the smart collection targeting the keyword finds about 70% (some but not all the images from both folders).  For the life of me I cannot understand why one picture is shown but another isn't...they sit next to each other, other file viewers and catalogues display them fine, the keyword has been assigned in an identical manner...

What am I missing?

These Smart Collections...do they work?

Also, why does Bridge index every time I try and use it...seems never ending when there's over 30k of images to look through.  Or can it not handle size?

I am thinking about an uninstall and just letting LR grind through...at least it's smart collections seem reliable.

Any help, greatly appreciated!

Thank you

[Sahil.Chawla · Accepted solution]

Hi Anthonyp,

Could you please refer to this thread Adobe Bridge CC Smart Collections are not displaying all images in the folder

Regards,

Sahil

[BALawson]

We can refer to that thread all we want, but the suggested solution of relinking the folders simply doesn't work.

The first time I lost all my CC Smart Folders was at the 6.2 upgrade in early 2016; I was told that it was my fault for not backing up the Smart Collections correctly. Ok, so operator's error, I'll buy that. So I  went back to every original files, gave them all a new Keyword linked to new Smart Collections. It took a few hours over several days,  but finally it was done. Then the Bridge 7.0 upgrade came along and the same thing happened.  

Either Adobe can't fix Bridge, or doesn't want to. Not the first dot.com American company to devote all the R&D to new products and marketing to expand market share and forget about the core customers and basic products.

[Yammer]

Search and Smart Collections only work if the pool of images and metadata has been fully indexed. If you add new stuff, it won't be automatically found until it's been indexed. This is straightforward with Search, because there's a tick box for it. Not easy with Collections. I've occasionally had to search my photo drive for a non-existent criterion with indexing switched on, just to get smart collections to work properly.