Connecting Bridge to Adobe Cloud space

[robin_3456]

I've a 1Tb Lightroom subscription and have been trying to import my photos from Google Photos. It's been extremely painful, something that feels like it should be a breeze is nearly impossible.

Having got some of my photos onto Adobe cloud space, I came across Bridge and was excited that it could potentially help. But it doesn't connect to Adobe Cloud.

I really don't understand it. Bridge seems to be Adobe's tool for sorting metadata and moving files around - yet it doesn't talk to their own cloud storage. It looks like they used to have folder syncing in the creative cloud app, but have since removed it. I also don't understand that. 

My subscription was sold as somewhere I can put my photos to sort them all out but it feels like Adobe really don't want me to use the cloud space I bought. If I was adobe I'd be hooking up all my products to my clould storage and encouraging people to use as much cloud space as possible.

Am I missing something?? 

So this is kind of a feature request (for Bridge to connect to Adobe Cloud) but also a question - is there a reason why it doesn't already.

[Lumigraphics · Accepted solution]

Bridge and Lightroom Classic are designed to work with LOCAL files, not cloud or network.

If you need cloud storage and integration, use Lightroom Desktop.

[robin_3456]

I AM using Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic. (That's why I said 1Tb Lightroom subscription) Bridge is one of the apps that's listed as 'included as part of my plan' under the Your plans page (even though it's a freebie anyway). As I said, I wanted to ask if my assumption that it only works with local files is right.

I also explained that Lightroom desktop, isn't particually great at importing and handling meta data, and said it's disapointing that Adobe don't update Bridge to be cloud aware. It looks to be a decent product, it wouldn't be a lot of effort to dump output on their cloud rather than local storage.

The Adobe product range at the moment seems all over the place. It looks like they got half way through cloud enabling their product line, then saw AI and down tools and jumped on that bandwagon. I've not used really Adobe products for about 20+ years, back then they were very innovative and far ahead of the competition. From what I've seen in the last week, they appear to have lost the plot.

So thanks for confirming my assumption. It speaks volumes that your response has been marked as the correct response, rather than Adobe giving a response that explains their strategy.

[Lumigraphics]

It IS the correct response, with what you can get today. Bridge is for local files. It always has been. Will that change? Who knows. And expecting a technology company to explain their strategy is a fool's errand. You can't plan around vaporware.

[GrandMasterJJS]

I'm in the same boat as you and I completely agree about Bridge being able to connect to Adobe's Cloud. While Lumigraphics is correct in stating what the application currently offers, things have certainly changed since Bridge was originally released. Adobe is now placing a large focus on cloud storage for each of it's major applications. It seems only natural that Adobe Bridge should be able to work with cloud documents in the same way.

I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe is working on it, but you'd think it would be out by now seeing as they've been putting the cloud at the forefront of their Applications for years now. If they're NOT thinking about it, then seriously, that's a shame and extremely bad planning. I suppose there are lot of things they would have to work out to get an application that was built for local files to start interoperating securely with their cloud infrastructure, but I'm sure Adobe can do it. We can only hope it's on the way. (And while we're at it, we can suggest the feature to the developers and upvote the hell out of it. 😉 )