After posting my original message, I looked further into the Finder app’s search function on my M1 Mac and discovered that it will do searches by metadata field. I will give instructions for how to do this below, and conclude with a message I received from Picktorial regarding their app running on M1’s. Keyword searches in Mac Finder run very quickly, faster than they ever did in Bridge! If you have a backup of your Bridge keywords, in the form of a text file that you can open and refer to rather than trying to recall all your keywords, you can easily search for those keywords in Finder. I am a home user of Photoshop and Bridge and just this year switched from Windows PC to Mac, so I will give step-by-step instructions for how to do this for others like myself: First, I chose to configure Finder so that searches are limited to the files in the open folder: With Finder the active window, in the “main menu” at the top of the screen select Finder > Preferences > Advanced > When performing a search: Search the Current Folder In the Finder window, double click on the parent folder that contains the images to which you assigned keywords for Bridge. Ignore the standard search field in the upper right corner of the Finder window. Instead, bring up the Finder advanced search fields: Command + F Two new fields will appear beneath the words Search: This Mac “Your Folder Name”. In the first field, click on the arrows to open the drop-down menu and click Other… In the Select a search attribute pop-up window, scroll down to Keywords and check its box. If you want to add an additional keyword, to narrow your search, choose it now. When you’re done, click OK. In the second search field, choose matches or contains. In the third search field, type one of the keywords from your Bridge keyword list. Hit the Return key to run the search. If you don't see the hits as icons (pictures), at the top of the window open the View icon and select as icons. To make the icons larger or smaller, use the slide in the lower right corner of the window. To import an image to Photoshop, drag and drop it from the Finder window into the document window in Photoshop. If you don’t get any hits, experiment with switching contains for matches, dropping the “s” at the end of the word, etc. There is no mention on Picktorial’s website of whether it is compatible with the new Apple silicon processor Macs. I sent them an email and received the following message from their tech support team: “Yes, Picktorial is compatible with M1 Macs. We are also working on the native version for M1, however there is no ETA at the moment.”
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