Importing photos into bridge.

@michaela38849736 

I use ExifTool for this task. Perhaps a Bridge script could be created, I usually create scripts for Photoshop, not Bridge, so my knowledge of what is possible is limited.

Presuming that you have "one root/top-level folder containing many loose images without any subfolders"...

exiftool '-directory<${directory}/${datetimeoriginal}' -d '%Y/%Y-%m/%Y-%m-%d' '/path to/source/images folder'

This command line code will create the following directory structure based on the shooting date, moving all files into the newly created sub-folders based on Year / Year-Month / Year-Month-Day:

This command line code is formatted for the Mac, Windows users would use straight double-quote marks.

One could also add the -r or -recurse argument before the path to the folder if there were sub-folders to process.

It's easy enough to create "droplet" type applications or custom contextual right-click commands in the Mac Finder or create "droplet" type shortcuts in Windows Explorer if you don't need to use the terminal.app or cmd.exe on a regular basis.

I think the problem you might be having is that you're making this too complicated, @michaela38849736 

Bridge is a viewer of "things" in folders. Unlike Lightroom Classic, which relies upon a catalog (and you do need to import images into Lightroom Classic), Bridge does not. If you download your images into a folder and "point" Bridge to that folder, you will see all of your images. Simply, there is nothing to import into. 

Can you let us know if you're on a PC or a Mac and we can supply some tips to help you along.