Bridge CS4 sorting folders

I just installed PSCS4 and when I open Bridge C4 and find that I cannot sort the folders by name. There is no option to sort by folder. How do I add filter options?

In CS3 you go to the filter tab and look in right upper corner. There is a double headed arrow which give you options to sort by different categories, including by filename.

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Copyright notice to all folders in Bridge CS4

Hello, everyone. I also posted this in the Bridge forum, but I think it belongs here.
I entered a copyright notice in the field, under Description, and was able to copy this metadata to all the images in the same folder.
I'm trying to understand how to place this copyright notice to all the other file folders within Bridge CS4, without having to enter it again, in that field.
How might I go about accomplishing that task?
Thanks.
Alan

You can use a Metadata template to append information.
I am not at my PS machine right now but the instructions are in the Help files.

Cannot sort files in bridge cs4

Hi
As you know it, since Windows XP xp2, the explorer sorts the files this way :
1, 002, 03, 000004...
For getting back the "right" alphabetical way, you can change the registry. So did I.
Now in the explorer, I get the files sorted like this :
000004, 002, 03, 1
Well
but in adobe bridge CS4, nothing changes. the files are sorted : 1, 002, 03, 000004...
Is there a way to have the files sorted like in explorer ?
thanks for your replies
(Sorry for my bad english)

Yes it can be done but it's very messy!
The following script should do the job BUT it does require you select Manual sort and move any document first! This makes sure that a hidden file .BridgeSort is created in the folder. This file is re-created into the correct order then a new window is opened and the old window closed. This is because Bridge only reads this file when it opens.
Using ExtendScript Toolkit copy and paste the code into a new window, start Bridge - Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts, click the "Reveal" button. This will open the folder that the script should be placed. Once that has been done close and restart Bridge and accept the new script. You will now have a new menu item "AlphaSort"
#target bridge
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
var newMenuSort = new MenuElement( "menu", "Alpha Sort", "after Help", "mySortData" );
var newSortCommand = new MenuElement( "command", "Alpha Sort", "at the end of mySortData" , "xxxx" );
newSortCommand.onSelect = function () {
   alphaSort();
function alphaSort(){
var file = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
if(!file.exists){
    alert("Please select manual sort and move one document before running this script!");
    return;
file.hidden=false;
file.open('r');
var data = file.read();
file.close();
data = data.split('\n');
var Items=[];
for (var a in data){
    if(data[a].match(/item/g)) Items.push(data[a]);
app.document.sorts = [{ name:"file-size",type:"dimensions", reverse:false }];
Items = Items.sort();
try{
file.remove();
file.open("w", "TEXT", "????");
}catch(e){alert(e+" - "+e.line);}
$.os.search(/windows/i) != -1 ? file.lineFeed = 'windows' : file.lineFeed = 'macintosh';
file.writeln("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>");
file.writeln("<dirinfo>");
file.writeln("<files>");
for(var s in Items){
    file.writeln(Items[s]);
file.writeln("</files>");
file.writeln("</dirinfo>");
file.close();
file.hidden=true;
app.document.sorts = [{ name:"user",type:"date", reverse:false }];
app.document.chooseMenuItem("mondo/command/new");
app.documents[0].close();

CS4 Bridge Star sorting system doesn't work

I have been using Photoshop and Bridge for years, but just started using Bridge in CS4 (Windows XP Pro). The sorting system where Bridge will display only those images with a specified number of stars simply does not work. I have never had this problem before, on any machine and with any version before CS4. (In other words, I know hot shi works because I've used it in CS2 and CS3, but it simply does absolutely nothing in my Bridge CS4!) Any recommendations?

I know it's curious why I'm just getting to his now. I have had the software installed for a long time. I just haven't used it.
I have been using Photoshop since PS 7, and this is a registered upgrade that I've had for quite a while. But I am slow in converting, and I have still been using CS2 up until recently. (I have some routines and actions built into CS2 that I'm not good at re-building or converting into a new version.
So be assured this is legitimate software. I'm a businessperson and I do everything legit. www.paulwphotogaphy.com
It might be because I still have CS2 and Bridge from CS2 still loaded on my PC. I don't want to lose CS2 yet. (I know, it's a familiarity thing.)
All that being said, and ideas?

Adobe Bridge CS4 doesnt keep workspace layout and folders from previous session.

After I was working with my photos in specific folder I set workspace layout to specific size of UI elemenst. Like preview windows size, thumnnail size, navigator panel size and so on. When I restart my PC and launched Bridge again - it is again meessed up nad set to some strage sizes and the main bugger it doesnt preserve folder I was working before.
What might be a problem?
Thank you
Bridge CS4 3.0.0.464
Windows 7 Professional 64bit.

Assuming that you are closing Bridge correctly and not just shutting down the computer, the fault is probably with the fact that Bridge is Autostarted in the background due to it being enabled in Bridge preferences.
Setting that as default was a big mistake from Adobe.

Why not use Bridge CS4 with PsCS3?

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.
Has anyone else had a similar experience, or does anyone else know of any reason(s) why I should not continue to use this workflow, at least in the short term?

I've been away. Thanks John, Bart and Buko for your responses. Think you misunderstood my post Bart, but it does not matter now. John got the correct message. Buko: of course CS3 cannot use ACR 5.x - that was implicit in my post.

Bridge CS4 looses my labels and ratings if edited in Camera RAW

Hi there. This is my first post here, so please forgive me if I make any errors of normal posting procedure. I'm hoping someone might be able to identify this problem please.
I am using Bridge CS4 v.3.0.0.464 and Photoshop CS4 v.11.0 and Camera RAW 5.0.0.178
On Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit service pack 2, and working mainly with jpg files from a Nikon D300s
I've noticed recently the following behaviour. If I label and/or rate some photos in Bridge, and then open those photos via Camera RAW, and then make adjustments to those photos in Camera RAW and open them directly from there into Photoshop, then the original file in Bridge looses all it's rating and label info, and shows a new modified date and time as of that moment.
This only seems to happen if I actually edit the photo in Camera RAW, I do not ask to save it (and remember these are JPG files so as I understand it any changes in Camera RAW would not be saved unless I ask to resave the file itself) but to open it directly into Photoshop (and I then save the finished work as a copy to a different place from Photoshop) but the act of making an edit in Camera RAW seems to affect the original file settings in some way, and that looses the labelling etc.
However, just a couple of days ago something even odder happened. I opened Bridge, navigated to a recent (and recently labelled) folder to browse some photos (at this point I had not opened either Camera RAW or Photoshop and was not doing editing of any sort). When I got to the folder I wanted and Bridge started to display the thumbnails, I immediately heard my hard drive working very hard, and watched as over the course of a few seconds all my labels, ratings etc, were erased from the files in that folder, you could actually see it happening in real time in the filter pane as the number of red-labelled photos counted down from 30 to 0, and the modified dates for those 30 shifted from two days before to the current time/date. it only happened for the labelled and/or rated photos, the others remained unchanged, with their modified dates still the same as when I created the folder a few days before. This has so far happened to me just once, a couple of days ago, it was as if Bridge was somehow refreshing a cache or something, and that caused it to to clear all the changes I had made.
Anyway, I couldn't really find any reference online or on these forums to that specific behaviour. After reading some slightly similar problems online I tried a few changes to settings. Allowing Bridge to automatically export the cache to folders where possible, and making sure that the main Adobe cache location is writable (not read only) in windows folder settings. However, although I have not yet had a repeat of the weird incident above, that hadn't happened before either so I cant really claim that I've cured it. But moreover the issue of loosing labels/rating when editing with Camera RAW still persists consistantly even after those changes, so that is definitely still a problem
Can anyone shed any light please? if it's a known problem, a flaw, or maybe (hopefully) can be sorted with some settings that I have missed.
Thanks for any help
Best regards
Will

Welcome to the froum. Your submittal was great.
I don't know if this will fix your problems, but you need to update to the current versions and see where that takes you. Click on Downloads/updates at top of page.
You have Bridge CS4 v.3.0.0.464 and Photoshop CS4 v.11.0 and Camera RAW 5.0.0.178. Don't know what current version of Bridge is, but you need PS v. 11.0.1 which fixed a number of mistakes. Also, the current RAW is 5.6 I believe. I am still on CS3.
eatfirst wrote:
This only seems to happen if I actually edit the photo in Camera RAW, I do not ask to save it (and remember these are JPG files so as I understand it any changes in Camera RAW would not be saved unless I ask to resave the file itself) but to open it directly into Photoshop (and I then save the finished work as a copy to a different place from Photoshop) but the act of making an edit in Camera RAW seems to affect the original file settings in some way, and that looses the labelling etc.
Edits, keywords, and rating can be stored in the XMP file. This has the same name as the file and needs to move with the file or you will loose info. If you move or rename the file, and don't use Bridge, this file could be left behind. You can see this file in Bridge, if you have show hidden files clicked in View. You can look at it in Windows Explorer if you have "show hidden files".
Check to see if you have an XMP file in the new location. If not then do you workflow in stages and see if you have an XMP file after edits before you save it to another location.
Hope this helps.

Bridge missing offline folders

I have my "Documents" folder redirected to a network share. When I'm out of the office, I still have access to my documents through the Windows offline Folders feature. So in Windows Explorer I can navigate to my Documents folder and all of my files are there. When I reconnect to the office network any changed documents are sync'd with the network version.
In Bridge CS4 and offline, I'm not able to navigate to my Documents but instead get an empty directory.

In CS3 you go to the filter tab and look in right upper corner. There is a double headed arrow which give you options to sort by different categories, including by filename.

Bridge CS4 consistently crashing on a particular JPG image

I have this annoying issue with Bridge. CS4, version 3.0.0.464 -- I believe, the latest version; WinXP SP3. The Bridge is consistently crashing on the same image while trying to generate a thumbnail. The image is actually from some old website that is still around, available as http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/ballyhoo/ballyhoo_balloon.jpg -- just a picture of some old game prop. No other app has any issues with this particular image.
Curiously enough, there is another image on the same site (http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/ballyhoo/ballyhoo_ticket1.jpg) that always appears with generic thumbnail.
Purging caches does not seem to help. Can anybody confirm the issue?

I have a wider problem with Bridge CS4 WinXP PC. When I select any big folder of digital images, of my origination, I get a message warning that I should save information as Bridge has to close. How can I save Bridge data? I have stopped reporting this to Microsoft as always invited.
With the OPs single image, at least you can identify the culprit. With a folder I am given no clues.
I have tried to open the folder and selectively point to component folders. Sometimes I am lucky and Bridge sorts out the thumbnails; more frequently though I get another crash.
I wish it was possible to isolate the problem but Adobe provides no tools or guidance.
I am surprised that Bridge is so unstable at this stage of its life particularly when Photoshop and Lightroom seem to work well. Has anyone solved this problem?

Library Cache for Adobe Bridge CS4

I'm trying to clear up space on my harddrive for my macbook, and in my library folder, there is a cache folder which then has various adobe products. The Adobe Bridge CS4 folder has almost 20 GB of stuff in it. Can I get rid of this (safe to delete)? Why does it build up so much? Do I need to periodically manage this manually? Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Thanks!

The cache folder for Bridge can grow to huge proportions because it keeps
information for all earlier cached files. After quitting Bridge you can
delete this folder (user library/caches /Adobe/Bridge CS4/cache) by dragging
this to the trash and empty bin to make space on your HD.
Restarting Bridge creates a brand new cache folder in this place but this
one is empty. Therefore you will need to recache all files you want to show
at high quality in the preview window again because with deleting this data
the cache with all previews (including the HQ preview that are mainly
responsible for the huge size) from previous cached files will also be gone.
Personally I use this method on a regular base including restarting Bridge
holding down option key to refresh preferences, this gives a fresh start for
Bridge.
I mainly use Bridge for sorting, rating and adding metadata and once the DNG
files I want have been developed they are transferred to my archive and
don't need to be in the cache file anymore
So with keep in mind that you need to recache the current files you are
using (takes some time depending on amount and size of the files you can
safely delete the current huge cache file.
Can I get rid of this (safe to delete)? Why does it build up so much? Do I
need to periodically manage this manually?

Adobe Bridge CS4 vs CS3

Hello everyone,
I'm taking a class at the college about Photoshop and we are in a chapter
where we're using Bridge.
The class uses version CS4, but I'm using CS3 (the instructor gave a
thumbs-up to that prior to class). I'm in a place where I can't figure out
how to do it in CS3 and asking your help.
Here's the scenario from the textbook (CS4):
1. Open Bridge and click on the Folders tab.
--- Like in PS, there is a menu at the top that I don't have in CS3. Same
here in Bridge. After clicking the Folder tab, the book is showing a screen
where there are headings of Essentials, Filmstrip, Metadata, and Output.
2. Open the .psd file
--- that we were working with earlier in the chapter in PS
3. Click Output, then click the PDF button, then click Repeat One Photo per
Page check box, then click the Refresh Preview button.
--- I'm lost!
4. Scroll down to the Watermark section of the Output panel, click the View
PDF After Save checkbox, then Save.
--- Still lost!
Before I'm troubling you, I spent about 90 minutes looking through menus,
Adobe help, and online. Nothing!
So I'm drawing on the experience within the group to tell me if these steps
are possible in CS3 - even if they are not exactly as described above. As in
PS, sometimes the book shows how to do something and I can figure out a
work-around in CS3.
Thank you!
Gil

I certainly agree with John J. The user interfaces are quite different, and the Bridge Output create pdf function you are asked to do in Bridge CS4 replaced a CS3 pdf fuction performed from Photoshop CS3 called PDF Presentation.
Here's a series of CS3 steps that gets close to what your CS4 exercise looks to be calling for:
1. Launch Bridge CS3 and click on the folders tab and navigate to the folder with the pds files for your exercise. (Ignore the different layout for workspaces et al.)
2. Select one or more psd files in Bridge (thumbnails in Content panel).
3. Still in Bridge, click on Tools > Photoshop > PDF Presentation. This will launch Photoshop if it not already open and display a PDF Presentation dialog box with some choices. The top section will list Source Files, which should show the file or files you had selected in Bridge. In the bottom section Output Options select the Presentation button, and you might click to Include Filename.
4. Click Save at top of the dialog box. You should get a Save dialog box. Select filename and where to save the pdf; then you should see Photoshop's Save Adobe PDF dialog box in which, under General, you can check View PDF After Saving.

Adobe Bridge CS4 causes Blue Screen of Death! Help?

Can anyone help?
I keep getting a Blue Screen of Death every so often when I am using Adobe Bridge CS4 and another program, either Photoshop or Bryce or Cinema4D.
When I have been working in the other program for a while and attempt to return to Bridge, the instant I click on the bridge icon in the low taskbar, the PC blue screens and everything dies instantly with no time to read the blue screen or to take a photo of it, never mind do anything useful like save the file I was working on.
I have winXP Pro and an NVidia Ge Force 8800 GTS graphics card. (both are up to date)
I recently got the Adobe updates but there wasn't one for Bridge.
Buckets full of memory: 289GB free on the C drive and I store most (work) things on my F drive which is a terrabyte with 315 gigs free.
Um.... dunno what else to say.
Except: HELP!!!

Well, I don't find that the magnifying glass ability is all that much help to me as often what you see in that magnified area is too blurry to be of any use - my eyes aren't wonderful with small things (including small text - I therefore have the text on all the machines I use set to quite large, browser included) so I like large thumbnails too, and usually I find that the big thumbnails are sufficient for me to find what I want.
So that's not been the cause of my BSOD.
By the way what's "ralentize"? Is it like "pixilate"?
On the BSOD - it sounds to me that there can be more than one cause in Bridge of the BSOD, so it sounds as if Bridge CS4 - is just not stable, period.
The fact that Bridge in CS3 and CS2 worked just fine is a good indicator of this, (to me anyway) as most people seem to be saying so.
I wouldn't like to rely on NVidia's next update fixing this, as I've already updated NVidia once since this began and it didn't help, I now hear that there's now another update out for the NVidia Ge Force 8800 GTS (which is what I have in my PC), so I will be updating that when I get back, but as the last update didn't fix it, I doubt if this one will either, I think it's something that Adobe will have to sort out, but I doubt if they will.
So it looks like those of us with that graphics card are just left without being able to use Bridge properly - if at all.
I've given up on it on my PC and so I'm refusing to use it on my Laptop either, since it would be silly to get so used to it that I can't work without it.
I have tried using Irfanview, but it's functionalitly is comparably limited. So I'm looking out for something else.
I don't at the moment have PhotoshopCS4 on the laptop and as I left the box with the program in it in my room at Uni I can't install it on the laptop with its different Graphics card (although still an NVidia it's a Ge Force Go 6800, not the 8800 Gts), until I get back next week... not that I really want to, if it's just going to crash the laptop like it does the PC.
I do have Corel's Paintshop Pro Photo X2 on here, but I don't use it anything like as much as I do Photoshop, but at least the Bridge or Browser (they call it "Organiser") on that doesn't kill the entire computer, although it does take up room on the screen instead of opening as a whole new window.
Also PaintShopPro does not save an inferior version of the image when saving as BMP, which I've noticed does now happen with Photoshop CS4 (when comparing .psd or pspimage with bmp).
emirkill,
I will also try the "enable software rendering" when I get back, that you've used, in case that helps.

Bridge CS4 image Previews are too small

In Bridge CS4 I cannot get the preview images to display anything larger than a large thumbnail view, see image below. I have tried all of the Preferences in Edit menu (e.g. Thumbnail: do not process files larger than set to 10,000 MB, cache options are keep 100% previews in cache checked/automatically export cache to folders when possible checked/cache size slider is set to 50%, software render has been checked/unchecked/generate monitor size previews checked). None of these options change anything for the size of the image preview. I have a DX10.1 ATI Radeon HD4890 XOC 1GB, so my video card is not the issue. I am running Windows 7 Ult x64 on ASUS P8P67 Deluxe with 16GB RAM and over 2 TB of HDD space. So my system should not be an issue either. These are Sample artwork images that were installed with Illustrator cs4. How do i increase the size of these images?
Also, these images are showing everything in the ai image, not the individual images in each ai file. How do i get it to show the individual images in each AI file like they were separate images, like Illustrator?

Actually, you just solved both of my problems with your question. I never thought about how the images were created/saved.
It turns out that for some reason when i re-save the images as version CS4 of course and all options selected in dialog box now the images act correctly and resize accordingly when the separator is moved and will get quite large as they should.
I also had to use my mouse and select each artboard/image inside the file then re-saved with same settings as above to get multiple images to show up with the buttons at bottom of image in preview mode. Now all is good.
These are the default installed sample artwork images. Not sure why they were like this, may have been some kind of format/process error. Thanks a lot Curt Y.
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Elements 8.0 and Adobe Bridge CS4 problem

I have two problems that appeared in Elemens 8.0 and Adobe Brigde CS4 recently. I'm using the Mac version and a Macbook Pro (4 months old).
I don't really know where to address the problem, but I hope someone in this forum would be able to advice me.
Problem 1
When I browse a RAW-file in Bridge and click the photo to view a 100% zoom and then go back to a normal view, after a few seconds the photo turns alot darker. I've got alot of macro photos of flower and they really loose structure in this process and I would say they get damaged.
On the attached file the left photo is the photo I've viewed and closed and the right one is the original file. Does anyone have an explanation to this problem? I do like to review my files and do a 100% zoom before I choose the best one, but this is not possible in Bridge due to this problem.
Problem 2
After postprocessing my photos in Elements some of them cannot be viewed through Brigde anymore, they get sort of unclear and some show pixels. If I use Finder or other programmes to view the files they look perfectly allright. See examples below, the left one is a screendump from Bridge and the second one is the processed file.

I think this solved the problem, at least some of it.
I deleted the bridge plist file and also ran an update of Bridge CS4. I wasn't sure how to update ACR in bridge, so I didn't do that.
But when I start Bridge now, only some of the files changes color slightly in the thumbnails view. The zoom (loading 100%) also looks different, it zoomed to 800% earlier even though it said 100%, it sort of never ended.
Thank you Barbara, I'm ever so grateful. Now I know where to go if I have more problems

Scripting Adobe Bridge CS4 Output Module

Anyone done it? An API definition appears absent from the Bridge CS4 SDK documentation.

Thanks. I'm not familiar with ExternalObject, can you shed some additional light on the subject? Previously I've used the Adobe Photoshop Scripting Reference to figure out what objects to instantiate and invoke. I note all sorts of things I can invoke in the Bridge CS4 docs, but not the Output Module. These files you refer to on the drive, I'm not sure what you mean. I can find all sorts of jsx samples, but none pertinent to this particular issue.
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