Bridge CS4 File Info dialog broken

Hi all,
I hope somebody may help:
My Bridge used to work fine, until I experienced the following error:
"Fatal Error in running FileInfo:
Please run the XMP Panels 2.0 STI first and restart your App.
The STI will install necessary swf files to: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\XMP\Custom File Info Panels\2.0\ "
I´m using a VISTA Home Premium 32-bit system.
As I had no idea what is meant by "STI" I simply copied all files from the folder above (...XMP\Custom File Info Panels\2.0\) from a friends machine (same operating system, same Photoshop version) to mine.
Unfortunately this did not solve the problem.
If I now select "File Info" in Bridge CS4, the error is gone. But now an empty window opens. Or better to say, it´s not a window but a blank dialog box with nothing on it but white color. I can close this box by pressing ESC.
Best regards, Sebastian

I've been having the same problem now for a few weeks and its killing me. Not sure what I can do, but in Photoshop and Bridge, the only programmes I use on a daily basis, it takes me forever to enter file information.
My specs are:
eMachines ET-XXXX
Windows 7 Home Premium
4GB RAM
500GB HDD

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john weis
[email protected]
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Developed by Ron Reiger [email protected]
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1. BASIS FOR THIS CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
2. DESCRIPTION OF EACH PROPERTY NAME
3. WHERE EACH PROPERTY NAME MAPS & OTHER NOTES
4. WHERE TO INSTALL THE CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
1. BASIS FOR THIS CUSTOM FILE INFO PANEL
The Custom File Info Panel is used to capture metadata about a genealogy/family history photo that is privately held (that is, the photo is not in the possession of a library). The metadata property names on the File Info Panel are based on my interpretation of the recommended primary citation for a photograph (private possession) (annotated, with provenance) as described on page 95 of Elizabeth Shown Mill's "Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian" and on my interpretation of recommended primary citation for an Electronic File (Image from Private Files - Annotated), Mills, "Citation!", page 81. I added a few more property names for location and date the photo was taken and keywords (to ID people by number rather than by name), the name of the person who provided the description, a surety for their description, and an informal description. Each field is discussed below.
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Date Scanned: This is the date the photo was scanned. Date is populated by Photoshop and is not editable.
Provider: The owner of the photo as of the date it was scanned. A researcher in a future generations will know who had the photo at a particular point in time.
Provenance: Describe as best you can how the photo got from the person in the photo to the Provider.
Description Provided By: List the person who identified the people and location in the image.
Description Surety: (This is an open text field. You can use any surety rating system you want.) Describe or rate the quality of the Description of the image's people and location. Note any uncertainties regarding any particular people in the photo.
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Informal Subject Description: An optional non-genealogical description of the image, perhaps for using the photo outside of genealogy. Example Informal Subject Description: "Grandpa as a young man."
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Provenance:    xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Provenance'
Description Provided By: xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'DescriptionProvidedBy' Pre-existing property name
Description Surety:   xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'DescriptionSurety'
Complete Subject Description:   xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Description'   Pre-existing property name
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Media Description:   xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'MediaDescription'
Annotations:     xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Annotations'
Special Editing/Alterations: xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'SpecialEditing'
City/County:    xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'City'    Pre-existing property name
State:     xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'State'    Pre-existing property name
Country:     xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Country'   Pre-existing property name
Photo Date:    xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'DateCreated'   Pre-existing property name
Keywords:               xmp_path: 'Keywords'   Pre-existing property name
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The following was taken from "XMP Custom Panels," Adobe, Oct 2003.
Each time an Adobe application opens the File Info dialog, it scans all the files in these directories and appends them to the file list. If more than one of the description files has
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Changes to the contents of the directories do not require you to reload an application; changes are automatically reflected in the dialog the next time it is opened.
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Mac OS X
{Root Volume}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels
{Home Directory}/Library/Application/Adobe/XMP/Custom File Info Panels
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{Home Directory}/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Custom File Info Panels
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\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Adobe\Custom File Info Panels
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static_text( name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/DescriptionSurety=Description Surety:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
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group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text( name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/State=State:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
edit_text(fbname: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/State=State', horizontal: align_fill, font: font_small, xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'State', vertical: align_top);
mru_popup(xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'State', container_type: alt_struct, no_check: true, vertical: align_top);
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text( name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/Country=Country:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
edit_text(fbname: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/Country=Country', horizontal: align_fill, font: font_small, xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Country', vertical: align_top);
mru_popup(xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'Country', container_type: alt_struct, no_check: true, vertical: align_top);
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text( name: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/PhotoDate=Photo Date:', font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
edit_text(fbname: '$$$/CustomPanels/Genealogy/PhotoDate=Photo Date', horizontal: align_fill, font: font_small, xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'DateCreated', vertical: align_top);
mru_popup(xmp_namespace: photoshop, xmp_path: 'DateCreated', container_type: alt_struct, no_check: true, vertical: align_top);
group(placement: place_row, spacing: gSpace, horizontal: align_fill, vertical: align_top, reverse: rtl_aware)
static_text( name: '$$$/AWS/FileInfoLib/Panels/Description/Keywords=Keywords:',font: font_small_bold_right, vertical: align_top);
cat_container_edit_text(fbname: '$$$/AWS/FileInfoLib/Panels/Description/Keywords=Keywords',horizontal: align_fill, height: gTextViewHeight, xmp_path: 'Keywords', container_type: bag_struct, v_scroller: true);
mru_popup(xmp_path: 'Keywords', container_type: alt_struct, no_check: true, vertical: align_top);
</panel>

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File Info Hangs Photoshop?

Hello.
I was trying to change the copyright information on a few photos in PS, but every time I open the File Info dialog (ctrl-alt-shift-i) the dialog comes up empty and hangs photoshop. Even if I open PS with a new document and try to open File Info, it still hangs.
Has anyone else noticed this issue and is there a workaround?
Here's my version:
Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1

Thanks for the suggestion.
I didn't find any files matching with "mru" in the name (I'm running CS6), but did find "FileInfoLibraryPrefs.xml" which contains:
<xfi:libraryprefs xmlns:xfi="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/">
<xfi:dialogSize width="977" height="753" minWidth="640" minHeight="480"/>
</xfi:libraryprefs>
I renamed it, started Bridge, selected file-info for a file, it still came up blank, but it did drop in a new "FileInfoLibraryPrefs.xml" file with the following:
<xfi:libraryprefs xmlns:xfi="http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/">
<xfi:dialogSize width="680" height="620" minWidth="640" minHeight="480"/>
</xfi:libraryprefs>
Anyway, it didn't work after a second try.
Also, I have Bridge CS3 installed on my system (still using the old Version Cue), and that File Info XMP dialog comes up fine.

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If I do this manually, the text is pasted as one long running word, making the keywords useless.
I do have an applescript which extracts the text from an illustrator file, and pastes it into an excel file, separating the words with commas, with file name. However, it doesn't seem possible to then import this data back in to multiple files. Bridge doesn't appear to be capable of this....
..so the alternative I can see would be to get the text directly into the file info box, separated by commas... just not sure how.
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Hallo Jay,
I think there is two ways:
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b) You write an Illustrator script which runs over the files and collects the labels and creates a text file with these information (file name, keywords). Process this file and use a 3rd party XMP tool for adding these keywords to the file.
Regards,
Tom

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Hello all.
I like to put exact location information and notes into a file (within LR2) using the "location" field.
When I export these images I do not want this field to be included inthe jpeg's meta data.
I generally run a watermarking droplet/action after the LR export so can set that to remove the data via the File Info dialog in PS CS4.
However, it removes it fine and upon reopening the finished file in PS, the file info dialog shows that that the location field (in IPTC) is empty. All good.... Opening the image in photomechanic shows the field is still populated. Also looking at the jpeg in a text editor shows the info is indeed there.
The procedure above works fine for the "City", "State", and "Country" fields, it is just "location" that survives.
I have tried it all manually (rather than as part of an action) as well and the problem persists.
Any help appreciated!
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Just made some investigations with ExifTool. Files saved as jpegs from photoshop somehow retain their location in IPTC, but no XMP (so it's the other way around my original assumption):
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This happens on both JPEGs exported from Lightroom and original JPEGs that simply had their xmp metadata saved in Lightroom.
And by the way, if the JPEG is then saved in Photoshop via Save For Web, both IPTC and XMP get blank. So, if you modify your droplet to save for web (with All Metadata included), that could solve your problem.
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The "File Info..." box does not appear, how to fix?

I have sent this in on the bug fix form and thought id ask on here as well. Basically I am trying to find out the information for my document which I am in the middle of editing, though after clicking on file info within the file menu nothing appears. It wont let me exit indesign as it says there is a dialog box there, the only way i can "exit" this is by selecting enter on the keyboard before closing down indesign. I have tested this on a new document, tried making my screen scale smaller, checked the other desktops and I cannot find or see any file info dialog box when it is apparently in use. I am using an Apple MacBook Pro on operating system "Mavericks-10.9.5". I have done the same sequence of creating a document and selecting file info on photoshop as a test to see whether it crosses over all the software, though this isnt the case. Therefore I have tried to clear my workspace preferences and again to no avail. Can anyone figure this problem out?
Thanking you in advance
Nicole
P.S
This issue has been resolved after finding the below linked post. I reinstalled Indesign and it seems to work fine now, though if the error reoccurs I will add this to my thread. Also something that is worthy of noting is that I also use multiple screens, i vary between using the macbook's screen alone and that of the macbook plus a HD desktop monitor.
P.P.S
Further to using the guidance found in the below thread my illustrator CC has once again encountered this issue. I have been using multiple screens as usual and I am wondering if there is a simpler way to sort the issue out rather then re-installing the software?
Re: file info... window invisible

You need to burn the CD
using the "Rock Ridge" file extension. This creates
(or adds on to the CDFS, I'm not sure which) a Unix
file system which OBP can understand.No. RockRidge extensions only apply to ISO-9660 filesystems and they can only be applied if you're actually creating the filesystem in the first place. Installation CDs boot from a UFS filesystem that doesn't require RR. (Although they may have an additional hsfs filesystem).
If you have a .ISO file, then the filesystem is already constructed. You can't affect RR extensions at that point. Even simple little ISO burning scripts that don't have any understanding of UFS or RR should be able to construct the disk properly.
I have made it
to this point. I have systematically burned around 25
CDs (all made on Wintel -- an old Gateway PC running
WinXP Pro), taking notes on which configuration
settings were used to make each one, attempting to
install Solaris 10 for SPARC. I am at the point now
where OBP recognizes the CD (I no longer see the
"can't execute" error message), but it can't tell
which CD it is i.e. #1, #2, etc. So, I need to open
up the CD catalog once again, and try to determine in
which logical block the disk ID is located, and then
try to figure out where to enter that information in
my CD burning software (currently experimenting with
"Magic ISO".
Also, if you are atttempting to boot your SPARC
machine from the .iso disk #1, you will need to make
that CD bootable. Use your favorite search engine
with the terms "el torito" "bootable CD" and you will
discover a lot of information on this subject.The .ISO file contains the information for a bootable CD. There's nothing extra you have to do. You'd have to worry about that if you wanted to create a new CD and make it bootable, not if you just want to burn the Sun provided ISO images.
In addition, I'm pretty sure that El Torito is an x86/BIOS standard and doesn't apply to SPARC/OBP.
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