Viewing images from external drive in Bridge

[Camerai]

I tried to find a problem similar to this, but have not found one.

I updated my Bridge to 2020, and now I cannot view my images from my external drive. The extrnal drive shows, but the images don't. The external drive and the images appear in Finder. Images also do not appear in the earlier version either. Wasted a lot of time on this. ;-( . 

Please let me know how to rectify this. The images obviously are there. 

Terry

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[gary_sc · Accepted solution]

Hi Terry,

Without even asking you also have Catalina on your Mac. Correct?

The problem is Catalina, to help protect from invasion, Apple made permission hurdles all over the place and Bridge seems to be particularly vulnerable. You need to "bless" your external drive's permissions to make it available to Bridge. Currently the drive's permissions are "read-only." It needs to be changed to "read & write."

Here are a link for what to do and how.

Enable permissions to access the folder | macOS 10.15 Catalina

or this:

Basic troubleshooting steps to fix issues in Lightroom Classic

or this,

https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/support/card?id=700079

If any one of these is helpful, please let us know which one

[Camerai]

Thank you Gary for your quick response. I have tried each of them, and the problem still exists. I have uninstalled, reinstalled, restarted, etc. and nothing seems to work. It was find before I updated (like 2 hours ago!). 

Any other suggestions? And yes it is Catalina.

Cheers,

Terry

[Camerai]

Hi again,

For the Panda solution, I get to Step 7, and there is no drop down menu to select Catalina so I couldn't go any further:

7. Select your Catalina system partition from the top menu.

I have unlocked the external drive, but the images still do not appear in Bridge (although they do in Finder). I can also open the images in the external disk from within Photoshop.

Terry

[Camerai · Accepted solution]

Solved:

Go to System Preferences/Security and Privacy/Files and Folders

Under Adobe Bridge I had all of them checked except 'removable volumes'. Once I checked that, the images and data appeared in Adobe Bridge.

Hope this helps others. 

Cheers!

Terry

[francogori]

Yes,Yes,Terry

Thanks to you the problem is solved.

Simple and effective.

Grateful greetings,

Franco Gori 

[toreo32775237]

Thanks Terry!  That  was an easy fix.

[Camerai]

Glad it worked for you too!

Terry

[MegJi]

Thanks Terry, it worked for me

Thanks!

[MA28]

Thanks Terry for that information, it took me a long time trying to sort this problem out on my own.

[Barb Tourtillotte]

I am having the same problem where Bridge cannot recognize PSD files in my externals.  I am not seeing a Files and Folders option under Security and Privacy.  Any help appreciated!   Barb

[gary_sc]

Hi Barb,

Which OS are you on? And specifically, which version of Bridge you are using (what number)?

Thanks

[Barb Tourtillotte]

Mojave 10.14.6.       CC bridge. 10.1.0.163

[gary_sc]

Hi Barb,

OK, some of this is required on both Catalina and Mojave (Catalina just upped the anti like a maniak) but lets try this:

Go to your prefs and go to Security and do this:

Go to your System Preferences and select Security and Privacy (found in the top section). Now click on the Privacy setting (#2 below). Now click on the lock on the bottom left (#3) and provide your administrator code. Then click on the "+" symbol at #4. This will bring up the standard Mac Open window. Look for Bridge, select it, it will now appear in that window and make sure it's checked. Then go into the Full Disk Access, click the "+" symbol, search and check Bridge, double-click Bridge to add it then give Bridge the appropriate check.

Close everything down and see if that makes it all work.