Help with Duplicate Files on Shared Server

[Steadyhands Dan]

Hi all,

I recently started working for an interior design company that hires outside photographers to shoot their projects. My job, as a marketing director, is to direct the use of these assets in collateral. I want to use Bridge, and by extension libraries, to categorize these Assets and allow third-party consultants to use our photos as needed.

The problem I'm having is that historically these photographers send their assets in a .zip that contains three or four folders with the same photos in the same number of resolutions/file formats. For example, I have a folder for Project A that contains four folders that contain High Res Tif, Medium Res Tif, High Res JPG, and Low Res JPG. 

Is there a way for me to simply import all existing project photography into Bridge without creating duplicates? Or will I need to dive into each of these folders and only import the highest resolution images?

Thanks all!

[Lumigraphics]

Bridge doesn't have an import feature. It is a file browser and will show you what is on your drives. You can use search criteria and filtering to find certain groups of assets such as file formats and resolution.

[Steadyhands Dan]

Sorry, let me rephrase--my issue is Bridge will display (not import, sorry bad wording) duplicate images in subfolders if I put the parent director in, right? So are you suggesting that I might be able to simply filter (.TIF, resolution over value x, etc.) and I'll be able to narrow it down to just the highest and best resolution images?

[Lumigraphics]

Bridge doesn't know anything about duplicate images. It shows you everything on your drive, period. Its up to you to sort and filter things out.

[gary_sc]

Actually, this should be pretty simple: a high-resolution image is larger (greater kb) than a low-resolution image. A tif is also a higher storage image.

So, look at the zip packages and see which one is the largest: that one is the TIF high-resolution images. (I would verify before tossing, but that's just me! :>))