Recover Collections in BR 2023?

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November 29, 2022
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Just noticed all my Collection folders are empty. Is there a way to recover these? I still have access to BR 2022 on desktop and the collection images are still there. Is there a simple way to copy these to BR2023.

No rush here, and thanks!

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Correct answer Lumigraphics

C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe

There will be Bridge 2022 and Bridge 2023 folders. Copy the files in Collections folder from the older to newer version (make sure to keep a backup copy.)

This is unsupported but worked in minimal testing here.

Oh and separately, web links are not allowed in signatures here, can you please remove that? Thanks.

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Lumigraphics

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Mac or Windows?

Collections are saved as text files in the Bridge data folder, you can manually copy them from Bridge 2022 to 2023. Bridge 2023 uses a different XML format but older files still appear to work.

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LumigraphicsCorrect answer

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C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe

There will be Bridge 2022 and Bridge 2023 folders. Copy the files in Collections folder from the older to newer version (make sure to keep a backup copy.)

This is unsupported but worked in minimal testing here.

Oh and separately, web links are not allowed in signatures here, can you please remove that? Thanks.

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