Basic Bridge hidden files cross compatibility ???

Hi...
I am stuck with a very stupid problem.
I travel a lot from my photographic studio and my house, which respectively haves mac and windows platforms.
However, neither the "bridgesort", "camera raw import options (XMP)" and the "labels of the pictures" are working on both the systems, I just see/use one different each time.
That's of course cause of the different naming of hidden files between windows and mac... in windows a hidden file have a "label" inside him, in linux there is a "." prefix on the file.
So, I'm writing you to ask if there somewhere a BASIC/STUPID option to use a "." prefix (in combination with the hidden flag on the file labels) on Bridge's hidden files (ON WINDOWS), so that I will be able to see on both platforms the same things (labels, sorting, and camera raw preferences).
That's unfortunately the same with ALL pictures thumbnails, that causes a huge amount of useless scratch on the disks and also a waste of free space.
That' a very basic thing to do and there is a lot of linux software that do this as a basic thing to make people use cross-platform software with the same preferences on it's computer.
Please keep me informed, so I'll finally stop to use GOOGLE PICASA on my house's PC because I can't use my studio's preferences.

... ?

Similar Messages

Bridge CC: how to show hidden files?

My search returned hidden files.
Could you please show me how to reveal hidden files.
View | Show Hidden files IS checked.
Thanks.

Open the Script Editor or AppleScript Editor in one of the subfolders of Applications and run the following:
tell application "Finder" to quit
if (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles") is "1" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0"
else
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1"
end if
delay 2
tell application "Finder" to run
If you change your mind later, run the script again.
(65149)

Transfering Bridge (and files) between computers

I will soon be switching over to a new computer, which means overhauling my files and unfortunately Bridge. I know that my labels and keywords will transfer since they are attached to the files themselves in the metadata, but what about my collections? I have smart collections which would rebuild themselves once I re-constructed them on the new computer, but I also have some manually built collections that I don't fully remember the criteria for dragging certain pictures in them. I am not sure how to transfer either type of collection beyond having both computers open Bridge and manually reconstruct them. Since I am 1:1 transfering my files for the most part (i.e. keeping the same folder hierarchy), the new computer will have the same relative paths which might work to my advantage or might make no difference whatsoever. Any ideas on exporting/importing collections and other features of Bridge that may not be readily transferable or that are not stored in the metadata?

You might want to explore the concept of "build and export cache" in tools/cache. Not all data is written to the file, some is held in an XMP file, which has same name as file. You want them both to transfer at same time.
To see if you have XMP files click on view/show hidden files.
Don't know much about collections.

How do I get home video clips from iMovie Mac to iMovie iPad? Surely there is some degree of cross-compatibility? I have a load of clips in iMovie on my MBP that I wanna download to my iPad2 so that I can edit movies on the move. Any ideas?

How do I get home video clips from iMovie Mac to iMovie iPad? Surely there is some degree of cross-compatibility? I have a load of clips in iMovie on my MBP that I wanna download to my iPad2 so that I can edit movies on the move. Any ideas? (The clips are in a .mov format, they have been imported / converted into this format in iMovie, original files were from a JVC camcorder in some other strange format.)

I copied the iTunes file from the external drive and it's in both places. I thought all I would need is the iTunes program (which I downloaded to new computer) and my iTunes library file. There must be something else that's missing. My iTunes library looks the same on the new computer as it does when I open it on the external drive. If I click on an iTunes library song from my new computer, it will only play if I have the external drive plugged in.
My back-up drive is a mess. I have multiple copies of music, video, photo, and document files and I don't know how that happened. ={ Obviously, I don't know how to back up stuff properly and there are back-up files extending over a 6- to 8-year period. I think all I did was just drag and drop the main folders from the back-up drive to the same main folders on the C: drive. Also (and I'm kind of fuzzy on this) Windows used to automatically save music files in a folder within my document files (which makes no sense to me). As my Jewish friends would say, "Oy Vey!"

Hidden files

In Windows Explorer I can see a TIF file. The file properties are set to show the file. It is not a hidden file.
However, the file does not appear in Bridge CS4. In Bridge "View | Show Hidden Files" is selected. The cache has been purged and then rebuilt.
Why does the file not show in Bridge?
Wayne Webb

Originally Posted by gator17
When I do a remote file transfer I can see the hidden files on the c:\ I can see them in the old zen 7 remote file transfer. On the workstation I am testing I even went into the folder options and removed the check marks to hide hide system files and that didnt work either. So How do I view hidden/system protected files in the remote files transfer on zen 10. I am on zen 10.3.1.0
It's a known bug and is reported to engineering.
Unable to see hidden files and folders during remote file transfer
Thomas

View hidden files?

how can you view hidden files on the iBook? my ipod is hidden, or doesnt show up...

Hi Lee,
I don't believe looking at hidden files will make your iPod appear. If you were to show hidden files on your computer you would see files like .DS_Store, which you probably don't want to mess with.
To help solve your iPod problem, you may want to look at Knowledge Base Document #60950 on iPod missing in iTunes and Mac desktop.
You should go through "The Five Rs", which are the basic and usually most effective way of troubleshooting iPod problems.
Jon
Macbook 2.0 White (100Gb HD 2Gb RAM) Mac Mini 1.42Ghz, iPod (All), Airport (Graphite & Express), G4 1.33Ghz iBook, G4 iMac 1Ghz, G3 500Mhz, iBook iMac 233Mhz, eMate, Power Mac 5400 LC, PowerBook 540c, Macintosh 128K, Apple //e, Apple //, and some more... Mac OS X (10.4.5) Moto Razr, iLife '06, SmartDisk 160Gb, Apple BT Mouse, Sight..

File.WriteContents writing to hidden files?

I have noticed that File.WriteContents writes to premade files or makes files but i was wondering if there was something that would allow writing to hidden files, is this possible?

First NOTE what JJ said.
Supposed a testfile "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Small Basic\Projects\TestFile.txt" (here with space(s) in path)
and a original set attribute of +H for the testfile, you could use:
'------------- SNIP -------------
qu = Text.GetCharacter(34)
txtFile = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Small Basic\Projects\TestFile.txt"
txt = "My Text to write"
cmdLine = "-H " +qu+ txtFile +qu '' clears the 'hidden / H' attribute only
cmdLine = qu+ cmdLine +qu
LDProcess.Start("attrib.exe", cmdLine)
res = File.WriteContents(txtFile, txt)
TextWindow.WriteLine(res)
' -------- SNAP -----------
Depending on the set attributes (can be checked with
attr = LDShell.GetDetail(txtFile, 6) '' or
'attr2 = LDShell.GetDetail(txtFile, "Attributes") ' on an
engl. System
you will have to ev. temporary set back others as well. eg. 'attrib.exe -H -S -R txtFile',
remember the original attribute(s) and, after writing to txtFile,
set back again (eg. attrib.exe +H +S +R txtFile) to the original attributes.
PS: If you are on SB 1.0 there is Data extension's 'FilePlus' object, which supports some methods for attributes (like .ContainsAttiribute, AddAttiribute, RemoveAttiribute). Perhaps further ('old') extensions that support attributes (like 'Fremy' etx ??
etc), but unfortunaltely the don't work any more for SB 1.1.
At any rate: You should KNOW what you are doing !!

My iBook doesn't show the hidden files on my pen drive

Hi there,
I have a 1 Gb Kingston pen drive to transfer files from/to my work PC (which is a Windows PC).
The pen drive works seamlessly on the Windows PC. But when using it on Mac iBook G4 it always leaves some "markers" of the files used like "._trash". These are not very big, but I wonder:
1) Why does Mac create those apparently useless files?
2) Why can I only see those apparently useless files on Windows PCs but not on Mac? (i.e. if I didn't have to regularly use a Windows PC my pen drive would get filled up with useless information without me even knowing)
3) Why can I add or alter files from Mac to pen drive, but I cannot simply delete files on the pen drive using my Mac (again, I need to retort to my olde Windows PC to do such a "basic" operation).
I always press the eject button before unplugging my pen drive.
I always find annoying that external devices that work just fine and as expected on Windows PCs create endless problems and issues when connected to Mac (have similar issues with my Sony digital camera).
Thank you for your help and time
Marco

Hello Soave
Hope to answer some Qs.
1) The files aren't useless to OS X. Please follow this link to read more.
2) Mac OS X is based around Unix. In Unix, the convention to hide files is to prefix a full-stop. Windows does not recognise this as a hidden file and hence will simply show them with the preceding full-stop.
3) I can't answer this one as I can see no reason why you should be allowed to alter them but not delete them. It's obvious you have write access to them. I use a thumb drive on my Mac and I have no such problems.
I haven't personally used it, but this program might be of use to you.
James

"Hidden" files hide where??

I'm using Photoshop CS3. I'm working with a folder containing 56 JPEG image files. In Bridge I selected five files to open in Photoshop. I hit Enter (at least I thought I did). The field of thumbnails changed. Nothing opened in Photoshop. The five thumbnails no longer appear in Bridge. The status bar says "51 items, 5 hidden". In View in the menu bar I checked "Show hidden files". I don't see them. I tried Help and FAQ in the forum.
Help! How do I unhide my files?
Thanks, - Dave

If you use another browser such as Windows Explorer do you see the files? Make sure that also has show hidden files selected. Also use Bridge and Windows search to see if you can locate the files.

MAC OS X: Bridge Defaults Files (jpegs) to Photoshop

So, I would like to have my jpeg files to be opened with adobe acrobat. I specified this with a MAC program called Default App's and it works fine with Finder. However, when I use Adobe Bridge, the program seems to prefer to use adobe photoshop to open "basically" all images files.
Is there a way I may specify this to Adobe Bridge that I would like jpegs to be opened a special way?
Thanks,
Matthew

Open Edit/preferences/file type associations and set your preferences there.

Noticed my hard drive getting filled, didn't save 500 Gb of data on it. I made the observation that hidden files are been created on the Hd. I assumed they were unnecessary and deleted most of them. To my dismay am getting a kernel panic msg. what to do?

I noticed my hard drive getting filled, didn't save 500 Gb of data on it. I made the observation that hidden files are been created on the Hd. I assumed they were unnecessary and deleted most of them. To my dismay am getting a kernel panic message. How do i go about getting this fixed?

Depending on what directory or directories you were erasing from you've certainly erased important system files and perhaps important applications files as well. If you have been using TimeMachine to back your computer up you should reboot into recovery mode (restart and hold Command + R until you see the Apple icon) and perform a restore.
If you haven't, boot into recovery mode anyway and choose the install OS option. Keep your fingers crossed that the OS is the only thing you deleted and that this works. You may also find it necessary to reinstall some of your software.

Each time I restart my iMac hidden files appear

Okay, this is new. Each time I restart or start up my iMac, all the hidden files appear. I run the appropriate line items in Terminal and all of the files disappear until I restart my computer. It all started to happen after I ran the latest update. I may have installed another software at the same time, but I don't remember.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
Paul
iMac 2.93 GHz i7
10.8.5

It is possible that there is a problem with the file(s) that store the extensions registry.
Delete the extensions.* files (e.g. extensions.json, extensions.sqlite, extensions.ini) and compatibility.ini in the Firefox profile folder to reset the extensions registry.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Profiles
New files will be created when required.
See "Corrupt extension files":
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Unable+to+install+add-ons
If you see disabled or not compatible extensions in "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" then click the Tools button at the left end of the Search bar to check if there is a compatibility update available.
You can also check for problems with preferences.
Delete possible user.js and numbered prefs-##.js files and rename (or delete) the prefs.js file to reset all prefs to the default value including prefs set via user.js and prefs that are no longer supported in the current Firefox release.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences

Copy without those unwanted hidden files ._

When I copy music files to a USB stick for use in my car system, the car system shows those hidden files, starting with a ._
How can I copy files to the USB stick without having those files, other than using a Win computer?

There is a built-in command to clean those files, dot_clean.
In a Terminal window, typedot_clean -m Make sure you leave a space, but don't hit return, yet. Drag a directory that has those files to the terminal window and hit return. It will merge any metadata with the main file and get rid of the ._ files.
To read about the options for dot_clean, type man dot_clean in the terminal and you can read the manual page for it.
The basics are:
-f to just work on that directory, not any subdirectories.
-m tells it to delete the ._ files even if it cannot merge the metadata
I don't know anything about BlueHarvest, so I can't compare except to note that if you don't like playing in the terminal, BlueHarvest will put a GUI face on the process.

Preventing the Creation of Hidden Files

Hello,
Is there a way to prevent OS X from creating all those annoying hidden folders on external drives and cards? Im talking about the folders and files like .ds_store, .trashes, ect ect. Basically the ones that will show up on other systems like Linux and Windows. It wasnt really a problem before, but recently ive been having to transfer a lot of individual files around and every time, it would create a hidden file for every file, and then it would create all these other hidden folders and such, making it difficult to navigate on a PC.
Unfortunately, I wont be able to respond what you guys can tell me until i get back from a trip for 3 1/2 weeks. But please, if you know how to do this, leave a post and Ill get back to it ASAP. : )

Does BlueHarvest do what you want?
(33950)

How do I find and free the hidden files on external drive?

I cannot see , or free, space on my external drive.
It is a Seagate Freeagent 500 GB disk. I am using 100GB for photos and music. Only 38 MB are reported free. How can I reclaim the rest of the space?
I had used in the past as Time machine backup. To create space I moved to trash the file Backups.backupd (as I now have another disk for Time Machine). I can't see this file in the Trash, and I can't see the space in Finder. How do I find / free the space?
The disk format is MAC OS Extended journaled. Disk utility reports no errors. I have run verify and fix, and also erase free space, with no result.
Thank you for your help.

Erase free space only wipes clean the 38 MBs that are already free. Click here to see hidden files.
However, I'd just make a copy of the 100 GBs in use, and then complely wipe the disk.
Don't try to delete the Backups.backupd folder by Finder. It's not a good idea to mix Finder and TM.

Basic Bridge hidden files cross compatibility ???

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for