Archive to CD using Bridge?

I am a newbie so this might be something obvious, I'm just not sure.
I am not sure if this can be done with Bridge, but this is what I am trying to do. I want to put full-size copies of images on CDs along with their keywords and metadata intact. I assume that I need to have the cache files follow along with the images to do that, is that correct?
Then, I want to have thumbnails of all of those photos that I've sent to the CD to show up in Bridge, but not have the full-size photos on my hard drive anymore. I just want to see the thumbnails, almost as though they are aliases, and I will name the folder the same # as the CD for easy reference. Can anyone tell me what would be the easiest way to go about generating these thumbnails? Since bridge is already displaying thumbnails, it seems like I should be able to keep them there somehow, without having the full-size image around anymore.
Thank you very much

I don't think you can use Bridge for this option, what you are trying to create is better done in a specific asset management application like Expression Media or Extensis Portfolio. Bridge generates thumbnails for files that are actually on your system. You could try to create your own very small sized files using the save for web option and put them in folders with the same name as the CD but that is not the same functionality as in the above mentioned app's :-(
To my knowledge Bridge is not designed for such a feature.
edit
The metadata (exif, description, keywords etc) are saved in the file itself. Only Raw files have separate xmp files with the ACR settings in it.
The cache files are a different case. Until now Bridge has not been able to handle the exported cache files for previews in a proper way and also they use different cache files for different Bridge versions. That is a real downside of Bridge. The best I can think of now is to forget about the cache files and use the "prefer embedded" option in BridgeCS4 for a quick result.

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Using Bridge as Image catalog

We are using Bridge to catalog our reference images and have run into a snag. When I was showing another person how to connect to our image library through Bridge and do a search, he did not get the same search results as I did, even though he was doing the same search in the same way. He only got a fraction of the images I got in response to the same search. I had him click on a directory which I knew contained other images that should have appeared and the images loaded into the main window. After that was done, then the images showed up in the search. So it was like the files won't appear in a search until they've been indexed in Bridge by loading them in the main window. I'm just guessing here.
Does anyone know of this issue and the best way to work with it? An image search doesn't do much good if you can't trust it to find all the right images, even ones that have been recently added by someone else.
Help!
thanks
Su

So it was like the files won't appear in a search until they've been indexed
in Bridge by loading them in the main window. I'm just guessing here.
Your guess is at good it gets!
Does anyone know of this issue and the best way to work with it? An image
search doesn't do much could if you can't trust it to find all the right
images, even ones that have been recently added by someone else.
Here is the tricky bit, it seems that indexing files like cache is user
specific. When using the export cache to folder option I don't believe this
also export the index but I'm not sure about that. But even exported cache
files need to be read first by other users to gain same speed and previews
when exported. Personal I can't use export cache to folders due to a
longstanding bug on my system. But then again, I also don't have the need
for that function.
As I'm a known big fan of Bridge the use of it as a Digital Asset Management
system for archive purpose is far from ideal if not unusable in the long
run.
To my opinion it is not suitable for this function due to the constant
change of used cache files throughout different version and still cache
handling is far from what it should be and we are not sure what they come up
with in next version (And I hope it is a completely other way that can be
used ).
The Image Browser that was the Bridge predecessor in PSCS1 was until today
the best in handling and exporting cache and yet we are in Bridge version
4...
They changed it for the better and albeit CS5 handles cache reasonable
stable I still dump the complete cache every know and then to start over.
Working with large amount of big DNG files as I use in my workflow combined
with HQ preview results in very large central cache files that often reach
40 GB in size.
To compare, for DAM I use Canto Cumulus single user. The cache size for over
50 K of developed files (my keepers) has a size of 1 GB. Search takes a
split second and building the catalog is light speed compared to building
cache and indexing when using Bridge.
There are some other DAM applications that do this job also much better then
Bridge, while on the other hand they aren't that good in sorting, rating,
renaming, metadata as Bridge is
But be aware that they are build for single user, if you want trustable
working over network you better start saving and look at a suitable
application for this that will mostly be build to be customized to your
situation. Canto Cumulus does so but as said, the single user version is
around 300 dollar while the network version starts about ten times that
price.

Debating whether to use Bridge?

If you are at a post facility and are using Bridge as your archiving method, could you comment about how it is working for you please?

Right off the bat: Bridge is neither an "archiver" nor a DAM (digital asset manager). It's just a file browser. Whatever changes you make at the OS level (the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer) is instantly and automatically reflected in Bridge—and viceversa.
That's the first thing to keep in mind.
Because you specifically asked for feedback from a specific type of user, that is all I can offer for now.

3-1674105521 Multiple Paths error while using Bridge Table

https://support.us.oracle.com/oip/faces/secure/srm/srview/SRViewStandalone.jspx?sr=3-1674105521
Customer Smiths Medical International Limited
Description: Multiple Paths error while using Bridge Table
1. I have a urgent customer encounterd a design issue and customer was trying to add 3 logical joins between SDI_GPOUP_MEMBERSHIP and these 3 tables (FACT_HOSPITAL_FINANCE_DTLS, FACT_HOSPITAL_BEDS_UTILZN and FACT_HOSPITAL_ATRIBUTES)
2. They found found out by adding these 3 joins, they ended with circular error.
[nQSError: 15001] Could not load navigation space for subject area GXODS.
[nQSError: 15009] Multiple paths exist to table DIM_SDI_CUSTOMER_DEMOGRAPHICS. Circular logical schemas are not supported.
In response to this circular error, the developer was able to bypass the error using aliases, but this is not desired by client.
3. They want to know how to avoid this error totally without using alias table and suggest a way to resolve the circular join(Multiple Path) error.
Appreciated if someone can give some pointer or suggestion as the customer is in stiff deadline.
Thanks
Teik

The strange thing compared to your output is that I get an error when I have table prefix in the query block:
Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Master table "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01" successfully loaded/unloaded
Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01": system/******** DUMPFILE=TMP1.dmp LOGFILE=imp.log PARALLEL=8 QUERY=SYSADM.TMP1:"WHERE TMP1.A = 2" REMAP_TABLE=SYSADM.TMP1:TMP3 CONTENT=DATA_ONLY
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
ORA-31693: Table data object "SYSADM"."TMP3" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-38500: Unsupported operation: Oracle XML DB not present
Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01" completed with 1 error(s) at Fri Dec 13 10:39:11 2013 elapsed 0 00:00:03
And if I remove it, it works:
Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Master table "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01" successfully loaded/unloaded
Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01": system/******** DUMPFILE=TMP1.dmp LOGFILE=imp.log PARALLEL=8 QUERY=SYSADM.TMP1:"WHERE A = 2" REMAP_TABLE=SYSADM.TMP1:TMP3 CONTENT=DATA_ONLY
Processing object type TABLE_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA
. . imported "SYSADM"."TMP3" 5.406 KB 1 out of 2 rows
Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_IMPORT_FULL_01" successfully completed at Fri Dec 13 10:36:50 2013 elapsed 0 00:00:01
Nicolas.
PS: as you can see, I'm on 11.2.0.4, I do not have 11.2.0.1 that you seem to use.

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I'm running Photoshop CS4 Extended, and am trying to figure out how to create a Photo Gallery.
Adobe instructions for using Bridge to create a photo gallery say this:
Adobe Output Module provides a variety of templates for your gallery, which you can select using the Output panel. Each template has one or more style options, which you can select and customize to suit your needs.
Important: Though gallery previews display a maximum of 10 files, your complete gallery will appear when you save or upload it.
Select the files or the collection or folder that contains the images you want to include in the web gallery.
Choose Window > Workspace > Output.
If the Output workspace is not listed, select Adobe Output Module in Startup Scripts preferences.
PROBLEMS:
(1)In Bridge, there is no such item as Output under Window > Workspace.
(2)In Photoshop, there is no such item as "Startup Scripts" in Edit > Preferences.
(3)In the Adobe CS4 Sample Scripts/JavaScript directory, there is no such item as Adobe Output Module.
There must be some other secret that the instructions forgot to mention... but what IS it???

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When I launch Bridge from within Photoshop, version CS4 does come up.
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I will post this on both the Bridge and Ps User-to-User forums as it applies to both.
I have PsCS3 and PsCS4 installed side by side in the default folders assigned by Adobe but have shifted my Bridge CS4 Cache (containing all the thumbnails and previews) from C:Documents and Settings\etc to a subfolder within My Documents, which I had previously moved to my F: drive - my main data drive.
I have found Bridge CS4 to be much more stable than Bridge CS3. Additionally, Bridge CS4 has certain features which make it more attractive and easier to use than Bridge CS3. I want to use Bridge CS4 in conjunction with PsCS3 until Adobe has sorted out the problems with PsCS4 - which at the moment is simply unuseable on my rather old and humble system.
On my system, I seem to be able to use Bridge CS4 with PsCS3 without any problems detected so far. I even have things set up such that any JPEG, TIFF or PSD file double clicked within Bridge CS4 or within Windows Explorer (Win XP Pro SP3) automatically opens the file in PsCS3 and not PsCS4 (provided, of course, that PsCS4 is not itself already running). Furthermore, even with PsCS3 running beside Bridge CS4, from within Bridge CS4 I can open any RAW, JPEG or TIFF file in Camera Raw 5.1 and use its new features (Adjustment Brush, Graduated Filter, extra vignetting capabilities, etcetera) which were not available in the last release of Camera Raw (4.6 I think) associated with PsCS3. The only problem comes when trying to open edits made in Camera Raw 5.1 in PsCS3 using the "Open Image" button in ACR - it does nothing/won't work, this is, it won't open the image with the ACR adjustments in PsCS3. That's not a big deal for me - as I am currently not doing any work within ACR (any version) and if I needed to I could simply save the ACR edits and then open the files in PsCS4, save the files as PSDs and then open them in PsCS3 to finalise them there.
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The many hundred files (raw and xmp per image) have been downloaded by ftp in no specific order. Means - a couple of files in the download queue - both raw and xmps. Most of the time, the small xmp files have been finished loading first and hence the "last change date" of these xmp files was OLDER than the "last change date" of the raw file - Lightroom then seem to ignore the existence of the xmp file and does not read it during import.(a minute is enough to run into the problem)
By simply using the ftp client in a way that all large raw files get downloaded first followed by the xmp files, we achieved that all "last changed dates" of the xmp files are NEWER than the related raw files. (at least not older)
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Can I omit installing the Organizer on Photoshop Elements and use Bridge instead? I would like to upgrade my Elements 8 for Mac, but don't want to use Organizer that's part of newer Mac versions. If I don't install Organizer, then I won't accidently catalog my files -- I like bare-bones Bridge for organizing. Thanks for any feedback. -- Robert

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Using Bridge and LR with same folders/files

Having organized, edited and rated my photos using Bridge CS4 but recently started getting seriously into LR3 I still want to keep that file structure, either in a transitional period or indefinitely.
I normally use Bridge to import the photos, then spend some time creating sub-folders (one folder per event), organizing them. I'm hoping that I can add those (already organized) folders into LR, but can't figure out how. I see how I can import the photos, but I don't want that as I want to keep them all in the same location (they're all organized on the hard drive as I want them), just have LR "see" them so I can further edit and rate them. How do I do that?
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You ask: " I'm hoping that I can add those (already organized) folders into Lr, but can't figure out how."
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<Move> is for importing images that are already on the hard drive and you do want to change their location.
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But you can make Lr read and display these additional Bridge-edits by doing a <read metadata from file>. But this is problematic because <reading metadata from file> will overwrite any Lr edits.
So you see that because of the fact that Lr works with its catalog while Bridge does not, editing images in Bridge and in Lr is a recipe for frustration. It can be done, but it's awkward and prone to mistakes.
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Since you are used to do edits in in Bridge Camera Raw, Lr will pose no big problems for you.
But if you don't want to let go of Bridge right away, I'd suggest you do at least one thing: After importing the images in Lr refrain from further editing these images in Bridge.

Hi, I changed my credit card, so my monthly pâyment expired. Now I changed the credit card details online...but I still can't use bridge or photoshop. I tried everything I could do as suggested online...

Hi, I changed my credit card, so my monthly pâyment expired. Now I changed the credit card details online...but I still can't use bridge or photoshop. I tried everything I could do as suggested online...
Can you help me asap?

Unfortunately, only Adobe customer service can assist you with your issue. These are user forums; you are not addressing Adobe here.
Click on the link below, and after that click on "Still need Help? Contact us."
Then on the next page, click Chat
There is also a phone option.
http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=PHXS_downloading-installing-setting-up_licensing- activation

Can I use Bridge to export image data into a .txt file?

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Hello
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set f to (choose folder with prompt "Choose the root folder to start searching")'s POSIX path
if f ends with "/" then set f to f's text 1 thru -2
do shell script "/usr/bin/perl -CSDA -w <<'EOF' - " & f's quoted form & " > ~/Desktop/out.csv
use strict;
use open IN => ':crlf';
chdir $ARGV[0] or die qq($!);
local $/ = qq(\\0);
my @ff = map {chomp; $_} qx(find . -type f -iname '*.map' -print0);
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#     CSV spec
#     - record separator is CRLF
#     - field separator is comma
#     - every field is quoted
#     - text encoding is UTF-8
local $\\ = qq(\\015\\012);    # CRLF
local $, = qq(,);            # COMMA
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print map { s/\"/\"\"/og; qq(\").$_.qq(\"); } @dd;
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Adobe product and version number
Operating system and version number
The full text of any error message(s)
What you were doing when the problem occurred
Screenshots of the problem
Computer hardware, such as CPU; GPU; amount of RAM; etc.

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You need to either buy a new version of Photoshop Elements or use the free Adobe DNG converter.
DNG Converter 8.8
Win – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5888
Mac – http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=5887
Useful Tutorial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bqGovpuihw
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