How to see folders in more than one external drive in V 13

Report · Jan 15, 2023

Hi,

I have multiple external drives. In the left column I can see computer folders. I click on the arrows of those drives and the list of folders opens down. The new Bridge V 13 will only allow one drive to show folders at a time. The old Bridge I could have all of the drives showing their folders. Do I need to check something off somewhere to show all folders?

Windows computer

Report · Jan 15, 2023

this might be because of the new Contents Panel

Report · Jan 15, 2023

New Workflows

If you look at the Content Panel, note the hamburger menu on the right-hand side (three horizontal lines). To the left of the Hamburger menu, you'll see a plus (+) (red arrow). If you click on that, you'll get a new Content Panel. If you click on the option in the Hamburger menu for a new Content Panel (green arrow), you'll also get a new Content Panel.

 The primary disadvantage of these two options currently is that either will default to a "home" position and are not likely to provide access to the folder you want. Fortunately, for any Content Panel that is active (note the blue square and blue line circling the Panel), if you go to the Recent icon in the icons on top, if you select a folder from there, it will open up in that Content Panel.

Likewise, if you select a folder from the Folders Panel. In addition, if you take an image or a folder and drag it to the Bridge icon in the Dock, THAT folder will open in the active Content Panel. Hopefully, soon they will provide both "Open" and "Recent" options in the Hamburger menu.

If you have a folder with other sub-folders, you can always right-click on one of the subfolders, and it can be opened in a new Content Panel

Once you have two or more Content Panels, you can drag from one to the other by simply mouse-down on an image (or all selected images), then move the mouse up to the title area of the other Content Panel to make it the active Panel and release. IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE before you do anything, then Comand/Control-z and you'll be good.

Note also that extra Content Panels can be placed and/or moved to any other location in the Bridge window.

I hope this explains some of the new workflows available to you.

Report · Apr 16, 2023

Thank you Gary. I as soon as I closed the extra content panel all the drives opened and I can see their content on the folders panel on the left side of the screen.