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How can I migrate the data (rating, label, collections) from Adobe Bridge?

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March 16, 2020
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As my understanding, the ratings, labels and collections are associated with Adobe Bridge only, which means they are not going to affect on Finder. So I am wondering, how can I migrate the data from one Mac to another? Thinking about, if I need to edit, review, open the same files from an external drive at both office computer and home computer.

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Correct answer Conrad_C

Thank you so much. What I wanted to see was the "colored tag" from Finder on Mac OS, I'm wondering if I still can figure out which files are colored on Blue (e.g.) on my Mac, so I'm not sure if Bridge still can give me the chance. Imagine that I'm a new user on Bridge, I catagoried almost everything direclty from Finder over years.

Bridge, Lightroom, and Photoshop write out industry-standard IPTC metadata, so when Bridge embeds keywords, captions, etc. into a photo, many other non-Adobe applications on Mac, Windows, etc. can see and edit that metadata. Or, if you used Bridge to embed keywords into a JPEG photo and then uploaded the photo to a web site like Flickr that sees and displays IPTC metadata, the keywords would show up on the photo's Flickr web page. All very standard.

But the problem with Apple tags is that they don't correspond to any other metadata standard, or at least I don't think they do. Very few Mac applications support them. I use them sometimes, knowing full well that they're Apple-only. I do find them useful for preserving organizational info across my Mac and iPad, since iOS supports Apple tags, e.g. in the Files app.

I don't know if there is any application where Apple tags and IPTC metadata are used together or translated. For example, Apple Photos is like Bridge and other Mac and Windows photo applications in that it can read and write standard IPTC metadata, but I don't think even Apple's own Photos application knows what to do with Apple tags.

Stephen Marsh

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Perhaps more than you wanted/needed to know:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2016/08/metaconfusion-apple-finder-tags-vs-keyword-metadata.html

Although I wrote the blogpost with regards to the confusion between Finder Tags vs. Keywords/Subject metadata, it also applies to Bridge/Lightroom labels.

It will depend on various software on what metadata and other internal file information are shown. Perhaps the most comprehensive tool is ExifTool which shows more than just EXIF data, where the following command will show all metadata that the software can read.

Mac Terminal.app command line example:

exiftool -a -G1 -s -u 'path/to/file or folder/here.tif'

Windows CMD prompt command line example:

exiftool -a -G1 -s -u "C:\path\to\file or folder\here.tif"

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Lumigraphics

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Labels and ratings are written into the file metadata. Collections are files stored in your user Application Support folder, but those won't be understood by any other software.

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Studio Yan XingAuthor

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Thank you, if I understand you correcntly, reagarding labels and ratings, since they are written into the metadata, which means I can use Bridge open the same file from different computer, and I should be able to see the same labels and ratings, right?

However, regarding about the "collections", if i need to operate files, folders from different computers, how can I endure that I could be able to see the same collections (of course, both computers use Bridge)?

Conrad_C

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Thank you so much. What I wanted to see was the "colored tag" from Finder on Mac OS, I'm wondering if I still can figure out which files are colored on Blue (e.g.) on my Mac, so I'm not sure if Bridge still can give me the chance. Imagine that I'm a new user on Bridge, I catagoried almost everything direclty from Finder over years.

Bridge, Lightroom, and Photoshop write out industry-standard IPTC metadata, so when Bridge embeds keywords, captions, etc. into a photo, many other non-Adobe applications on Mac, Windows, etc. can see and edit that metadata. Or, if you used Bridge to embed keywords into a JPEG photo and then uploaded the photo to a web site like Flickr that sees and displays IPTC metadata, the keywords would show up on the photo's Flickr web page. All very standard.

But the problem with Apple tags is that they don't correspond to any other metadata standard, or at least I don't think they do. Very few Mac applications support them. I use them sometimes, knowing full well that they're Apple-only. I do find them useful for preserving organizational info across my Mac and iPad, since iOS supports Apple tags, e.g. in the Files app.

I don't know if there is any application where Apple tags and IPTC metadata are used together or translated. For example, Apple Photos is like Bridge and other Mac and Windows photo applications in that it can read and write standard IPTC metadata, but I don't think even Apple's own Photos application knows what to do with Apple tags.

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