Bridge CS4 is stuck in one folder...

Bridge CS4 has "frozen". I can not navigate to any other folder than the one it is. Has it run out of memory?

I've rebooted. Haven't tried restting preferences.
If restarting Bridge did not solve it try the menu tools/ Cache/ Purge cache for folder. If that also does not work try restarting Bridge holding down option key and choose refresh preferences.
Could you report back on that?

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I have three external hard drives. All are recognised by Bridge. In order to cope with my large collection of images I have installed a fourth - a 1Tb Fujitsu Storagebird. This is recognised by Photoshop CS4 (all updates applied) (but not if I try Browse in Bridge), by My Computer on Windows, by DxO Pro, even by by IrfanView. But Bridge plays fast and loose. I have, on occasion, managed to get it to recognise the drive, but generally I have to struggle, restarting the Fujitsu, refreshing View in Bridge. Today, however, it is completely refusing to recognise the drive.
Any ideas?

Dear Curt,
For a moment there I thought you had the answer. Sadly, no. I disabled the Autostart, rebooted. No joy. Still won't recognise the drive. A couple of odd things: as I said, it has on occasion recognised the drive; when I switch on the drive and get the 'What do you want Windows to do?' box there is an entry for 'Download images using Adobe Bridge CS4'. If I click on that it rushes off and prepares to do that. So it is aware of the drive. Finally, Bridge recognises the three other drives. The 'rogue' drive works with all other programmes
Is a puzzlement...
Thanks,
Brian

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Maybe you could still use the Mozbackup tool if you have all your original profile folders and files, the ones you backed up.
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer#w_mozbackup MozBackup]
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Help al my pictures are in one folder how do i automatically organize them,

somehow when i imported everyting from my od g4 powerbook to my spanking new macbook, all the pcitures got stuck into one folder. can i automaticaly sort them into folders by month? also is there any way to automatically search for and delete duplicates (i have baout 10,000 pictures right now and in reality only about a third are original. everything is in there two or three times. thanks

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To move a library from an old machine to a new machine:
Simply copy the old Library to the Pictures Folder in your new machine and launch iPhoto. There is no importing involved.
When you imported the old library you lost all the albums and imported all the duplication.
Do you still have the old library? Then trash the new one and start over.
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TD

Bridge CS4 downloader won't browse to folder with Windows 7 64 bit

I recently installed PS CS4 on a new PC with Windows 7. I used the Bridge downloader as usual to download my photos to a particular folder. Everything worked as expected as it did when I used Windows XP. When I tried this the second time, the Bridge downloader would only let me browse to the folder from the previous download. I could not see any of my subfolders or choose the destination folder I wanted. What is Windows 7 in Bridge CS4 doing to prevent me from browsing to the destination folder of my choice?

It is enough. I am fed up now.
iTunes does not update automatically on my Windows 7 (64) and never did on my previous Windows 7 (32).
Yes, update freezes again and again as it did on my old computer. So what the hek do you want me to update?
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I do NOT want to borwse any more tutorials.
I do NOT want to personalize my experience.
I do NOT want to check out any community discussions.
I do NOT want to 'see around the communities'!
I just want to have fun! If possible with my iPod, if not I'll change that to another device too (and in order not to unsatisfy any other person not even donate it to an NGO).
One more chance for Apple an iTunes:
Just tell me what to do in order to fix my update problems - or else I shall be gone.
CU? Your decision.
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Bridge CS4 Won't Reopen the last folder used after reboot . . .

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Bridge CS4 will not update to Camera Raw 5.7 on one of my computers.

Bridge (CS4) will properly display my Nikon NEFs (from my Nikon D3 & D3S) on my old Mac Pro (Lion 10.75) but only the NEFs from the D3 are displayed on the exact same program on my MacBook Pro Retina - Mavericks).
I have followed Adobe's instructions perfectly, over and over again, but no matter what I try (and I did try some variations) I cannot update from Camera RAW Preferences.Version 5.0.0.178 on the MacBookPro Retina.
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I tried opening and installing a download of Camera_Raw_5_7.dmg from Adobe and I also tried dropping in the Camera Raw plugin file from the older computer but nothing works. I have emptied the cache several times.
I dont know if this is significant but when I first started trying to do this, I could not find the Plug-Ins folder in the Adobe file on the MacBook Pro Retina, so I copied the one from the Mac Pro's Adobe folder.
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Jan

Well, Jan, over the years I've helped many Mac users with this precise problem, and I even posted screen shots showing the path to the correct plug-in folder for ACR. However, in your case all those images won't help and I won't be able to generate new ones for you for one simple reason: I do not use Mavericks and never will because my Mac Pro desktops cannot go above Lion, FORTUNATELY. Mavericks is still cr@p at this point.
All I can do is try to clarify a few misconceptions for you:
AutoMatters wrote:
…I read that about the root level library when I first tried to follow the instructions from Adobe and I thought that I was doing exactly that. Instead of the library associated with my name, I found the library associated with my hard drive. I suspect that I have not yet even seen the root level library…
Jan, that is the ROOT LEVEL Library.
Getting back to your advice, I do not understand what you mean by mounting the .dmg file as if it were a DVD or external hard drive.
I mean just that. A Disk Image file (.dmg) is a virtual disk, like a virtual DVD. You double click on that file in the Finder and it will then mount just as if you had inserted a DVD into your computer. It will then show you the contents it carries. I will not be at my computers for a few weeks, so I can't be sure about all that the Disk Image for that update shows; but somewhere in there will be the ACR Plug-in. That's what you need to copy from the Disk Image to your hard drive and install it in its correct location, NOT THE BLOODY .dmg file, for goodness sakes!
Do you understand that once you are at the ROOT LEVEL Library you DO NOT go to the Plug-ins folder therein? Read the instructions again. What you want is to continue the path through the Application Support folder /Adobe / Plug-ins / etc.
This old screen shot may help. Command or Control-Click on the thumbnail to see the full image in a new window, then scroll horizontally; it is a VERY wide image:
Also, if I delete the Plug-ins folder that I copied from my other computer's installation of Bridge CS4. Should I reinstall the entire CS4 suite from the original disks and start all over again. If so, I read somewhere that I will need to somehow deactivate my serial number from the products as installed on my MacBook Pro so that I may reinstall it.
Delete anything you may have copied yourself only if you are 100% sure what that is. But DO NOT REINSTALL ANYTHING without first uninstalling using the Adobe UNINSTALLER that was installed in your Utilities folder inside your Applications folder.
Whatever possessed you to go around copying folders from a different Mac OS version? ??? That is insane! Geez…
Why the heck do you keep talking about Bridge? ??? !!! Bridge has absolutely NOTHING to do with the installation of ACR. NOTHING!
ACR is installed at the OS level and can be hosted indistinctly by Photoshop or by Bridge from the same location.
Bridge is totally out of the loop in this discussion, just as it is when you are using ACR hosted by Bridge. All Bridge does is call upon the appropriate application, whether this be Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Illustrator or even Microsoft Word and hand it the file, period. You could use ACR for years without ever launching Bridge, even without having Bridge installed. Ever.
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Does Bridge only Filter/Search Keywords in one folder at a time?

It seems the "Filter" feature in CS6 Bridge will only search keywords in a single opened folder. What if I have multiple folders for image downloads, one per day, in a parent folder for the month, or even a year? Can I use Bridge to filter images in a folder containing other folders?
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When I click on a folder icon, the images appear in the Bridge workspace. Then when I click on another, different, folder icon, the previously displayed images are gone, and only the second folder's images appear. A priori, this seems to be an unnecessary limitation on functionality, and therefore I presume that I just do not know how to do what is called for: To use the functionality of Bridge for more than the contents of only one folder at a time.
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Did the designers of Bridge not contemplate that users would want to operate on the contents of more than one folder at a time? I presume that I am just ignorant of how to achieve what should be a normal functionality; seeing more than the contents of just one folder at a time.
Please alleviate my ignorance.

Quick way: Press Ctrl+N (Cmd-N mac) to open a new Bridge window. Open the second folder there.
Not so quick way: Select menu File => New Window. Open the second folder there.
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Thanks Curt. That helped. I do have Bridge set to automatically start with Windows. I thought that shutting down Windows would cause Bridge to remember the last visited folder since Bridge was closed but I need to right-click on the Bridge icon in the system tray and exit before shutting down Windows. At least now I know why this was happening!

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Thx for that im gonna try it....but is there a way to do it without using toolbar or cmd-c...? i mean using only the mouse?why does it have to highlight the file even though i click a bit next to it....?using icon view i can right click next to the folder and i wont have a problem but with list view that i prefer using it will highlight the whole row.....and i dont find free space to right click cause i got many files

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I'm trying to add Metadata to folders not the files. The files in the folders already have metadata and in one folder we have 360 images of the same thing. When I do a keyword search I don't want to go though 20+ sets of 360 duplicate files. I need to do keyword searching for folders. When I have tried adding keywords to the folders I get "the file cannot store xmp metadata" warning. I tried clearing the cache on the file because it said that would help in another forum but it did not help. Does any one know how to fix this? I don't know why we could not assign descriptions or keywords to folders. It would be very useful!! Some one please help!
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