Adding keywords/tagging in bridge CS5

I'm using bridge CS5 on windows xp and 7 (mostly xp). I'm trying to set up a seachable database of about 63,000 images at work on a server that many people have access to. I was trying to put keywords on some pictues and it only let me put them on the JPEGS. Most of the other files were .max and .bmp. It wouldn't let me open the file info box to enter them, the option was just greyed out.
I was also wondering if anybody knew if setting the location of the cache to a folder on the server on each computer would work well, or if each computer needs to keep it's own searchable cache.
Thank you in advance for any help.

Not an expert on this subject, but before you comit a lot of time on this project in Bridge, explore other options as well, such as digital access management programs.
Bridge is not really set up for Network use although some use it that way. Also, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements stores the keywords in a database, while Bridge stores it on the image. Although I have never used the other programs, it seems lke it would be easier to search.

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Back to the original question, after thinking about this for a couple days I have had two ideas for workarounds:
1) Copy my tag names into the photo metadata and create a new catalog to bring all of my images into. This will allow me to keep all of my existing tags, and it MIGHT solve the tag display problem based on a test with a couple images in a new catalog. The downsides to this are a) permanently writes my tags into the photo metadata which will be bad if I decide to change something later, b) loses all version sets, and c) loses all albums (although I don't have that many). I found instructions for this workaround at http://www.johnrellis.com/psedbtool/photoshop-elements-faq.htm#_Merging_Catalogs.
2) Live with the lack of color tag display in Organizer, and use reverse searches to find missing tag categories. For example, if I want to find all photos that do not have a "Places" tag, I check the box next to the "Places" category (which also selects all sub-categories and tags below this). Then I go to the Options drop-down in the Find Bar and "Hide best match results" and "Show results that do not match". This gives me every image in my catalog that does not have a tag from the "Places" category, so I can go through and tag these as appropriate.
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I talked with Apple Support.
The iPhoto app on the iPad is not the same as iPhoto on the Mac.
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Thanks again Jim
This was not the answer I wanted to hear. So I contacted Adobe directly- They are very quick- they responded within 24 hours via email of course and reiterated what you said- I guess I just needed "official" word from Adobe, before I went to plan B
Anyways If anyone ever has problems like this where you got a bunch of .m1v files and you need to tag them with metadata- I suggest to do what I am doing and download tmpegenc it is a great little piece of software that will convert your .m1v files to .mpg files that you can now tag within bridge, Beauty
I will NEVER export to .m1v AGAIN
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Thanks Jim and Thanks Adobe
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Émilie

First check if you have used files that have been shot with different
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Tai Lao wrote:
Bridge is the weakest of all Adobe applications I use. It suffers from the same issues since its first release, when we were told to forgive the teething problems of any version 1 application. Now it's in version 4.x.
I actually spent most of the last two days wrestling with Bridge, and getty pretty annoyed with it. The "Error writing metadata" bug caused me no end of problems in trying to reorganise my keywording of 20,000 photos, and turning the air blue in the process.
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* Prefer Embedded thumbnails was also selected.
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This is a huge issue for our office and our IT person has no clue. Help
please.
Look at this thread and the solution from the Image Archivist:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2571008#2571008
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http://imagearchivist.blogspot.com/
And his blog using Bridge to share images across a network from the archive
in july 2009.
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I am using Bridge CS5 to label almost 100,000 files, mostly jpegs, tifs, psds.
After finishing this project, I am anxious about not having to repeat it. I am looking for information about copying/backing up the work I have done.
I keep 3 separate copies of my photo library on 3 separate, external SATA hard drives. I am performing this keywording on one backup copy. When finished, is there a file or folder that maintains all of the data regarding the keywording that I can copy to the other two hard drives or is the keyword data part of each individual file. If so, I would recopy the entire photo library to the other two hard drives. I am assuming the keywording would then be copied also.
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How do I copy my keywords from Bridge CS5 to CS6 in Windows?

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I simply dragged thumbnails into the collection from various folders and the collection shows all 20 images. Then, I close out Bridge and open it later, only to find that there are only 4 images in that collection. There may have been 4 images to start with, but every image I've added does not get remembered. This has happened twice and it's very unnerving because the images I am adding are coming from folders that are all over the place and it's very hard to look up all the pictures again.
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I've just noticed this problem, by chance, whilst moving data to a new computer.
We found that files that were in collections were randomly missing from Bridge CS5's display, and sure enough, as described earlier, as soon as a file in the collection with a quote/spostrophe was read, that file and the rest of the collection were missing from Bridge CS5's display.
(This was using Bridge 4.0.3.9. Adobe Application Manager tells me my software is uptodate)
Because we had some backed up copies of Collections from both Bridge CS4 and Bridge CS5, I've been able to work a few things out, which I hope might help someone at Adobe get the problem fixed - and might help a few frustrated users too...
Background
The following entirely applies to Windows 7 (and presumably Windows Vista too):
In Bridge CS4, collections files are stored in:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS4\Collections
In Bridge CS5, collections files are stored in:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS5\Collections
Both CS4 and CS5 store their Collections in files called <collection name>.filelist
Both are XML files, where file paths are surrounded by apostrophes:
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<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///D:/Shared%20Images/Flowers/RHS/DSC_0788.jpg'>
Both Bridge CS4 and CS5 convert any spaces in file paths to %20 - so /Shared%20Images/ above is actually /Shared Images/ on disk.
The cause of the bug
Crucially, however, in Bridge CS4, any apostrophes (i.e. single quotes) in file paths get converted to %27
But this conversion does not happen in Bridge CS5. And then when filelists get read back in, the data is truncated.
As a developer, I'm surprised at this sort of regression in behaviour, in such expensive software from such a large company.
Workarounds
None of these should be required to be done by a user, I feel, but I have found that they do work, and they could be scripted (e.g. in Python) if someone were sufficiently desparate:
Edit your .filelist files that were created by Bridge CS5, and convert all ' in file paths to %27 - oh yes, and remember to do that every time you add any new files to any existing or new Collections
Edit your .filelist files and change the single quotes at the start and end of each <file uri line to double quotes
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Regarding Bridge CS5 Keyword transfer

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I am using an iMAC, running 10.7.2.
I am getting a new iMAC and would like to know how to find and transfer the Metadata/Keywords from one system to another?
Many thanks,
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how to find and transfer the Metadata/Keywords from one system to another?
You can use the little icons for wing menu (top right in both panels) and choose export, save it to a proper place you can copy to the new iMac and choose import on your new machine.
By default the user library in OSX Lion is hidden but is easy to retrieve it (do a google search if you haven't done already so).
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username/library/application support/ Adobe.
inhere:
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