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Transfering Collections

  • February 19, 2018
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I need to transfer my images from one drive to another.  How do I insure that collection designation stay intact

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    Correct answer Stephen Marsh

    Thank you for your response.. unfortunately your solution is well beyond my computer skills

    Sent via the AT&T TREK™ 2 HD a 4G LTE tablet


    Don’t sell yourself short! :]

    It no doubt looks/sounds harder than it really is!

    I presume that you can find and copy files to/from various locations on your computer.

    I’ll also presume that you can open up a file in a text editor and search/replace for multiple occurrences of specific text.

    I’m quite happy to go through this one step at a time… Otherwise you would have to manually rebuild the collection/s.

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    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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    February 19, 2018

    Re: How to transform collections into "real" windows files?

    Re: BRIDGE: How can I export the file names in a collection into a text file or spreadsheet?

    Collections in Bridge CC - Locating the files to allow the collections to be backed up

    Re: Bridge Collections

    A collection contains an absolute URI path link to the file. You would need to use a text editor to find/replace the old URI into the absolute path required on the new system.

    Will the new drive replace the old one? Can you use the same volume name and folder structur?

    Stephen Marsh
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    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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    February 20, 2018

    Further to my original reply, here is the contents of the original collection .filelist file on my internal HD:

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>

    <arbitrary_collection version='1'>

      <file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Users/stephenmarsh/Desktop/file.png'>

    </arbitrary_collection>

    And here is the contents of the updated collection .filelist file, this time on an external drive:

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>

    <arbitrary_collection version='1'>

      <file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/2TB-DRIVE/Bridge-CC18-Updated/file.png'>

    </arbitrary_collection>

    As you can see, the only difference is the URI highlighted in red.

    So a simple find/replace in a text editor is all that is required to mass update the file paths making the collection work in the new location. Of course, make a backup of the original .filelist file before editing and quit Bridge before editing.

      Stephen Marsh
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      Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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      February 20, 2018

      Thank you for your response.. unfortunately your solution is well beyond my computer skills

      Sent via the AT&T TREK™ 2 HD a 4G LTE tablet


      Don’t sell yourself short! :]

      It no doubt looks/sounds harder than it really is!

      I presume that you can find and copy files to/from various locations on your computer.

      I’ll also presume that you can open up a file in a text editor and search/replace for multiple occurrences of specific text.

      I’m quite happy to go through this one step at a time… Otherwise you would have to manually rebuild the collection/s.

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