Bridge CS5.5 Smart Collections Question

Hi,
We have all of our photographs on a server and within that server we have the photos sorted into folders by date and location. I'm trying to use Smart Collections in Bridge CS5.5 to sort by the CITY in which the photos were taken. I've used the criteria of selecting any photos that have that CITY name in the "Filename" and "All Metadata." It will sort and show me the folders with the location, but I'd like it to simply stream in the photos as well. If I open one of the folders and then click back on the Smart Collection name it will then stream in those photos with the folders. Is there any way for it to simply stream in all the photos the first time so I don't have to manually click on each folder and then click back on the Smart Collection?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Premiere Pro does not offer this functionality natively.  All temporally compressed media will get retranscoded.

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