Bridge cs5 loses photos in collections

I am having trouble w/ bridge CS5 not keeping photos in collections when I put them there. I have only recently started using the collections, so I am not sure that I fully understand them, I did change all the file name on my photos from way back when when I was renaming things so there are no ,-' etc in the file names. That helped, but I am still losing things, even when the collections are comprised of files who are named directly from the camera download. Also the smart collection re-searched everytime I go to it-not even just when I open & close bridge, & I thought even that wasn't supposed to happen much less every time I move off the view. Thought maybe it was a memory thing, we are going to upgrade to 8GB of RAM from the 4 that we have now, just haven't gotten areound to it yet, but it does it w/ even relatively small (50 photos) collections. Any ideas as to the problems

This still sounds as if you have an apostrophe in the filename,
You would need to see what is the last picture in the collection then look in the collection file itself to find the next file and check for an apostraphe.
C:\Users\UserNamel\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS5\Collections

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This is the first time I used non-smart collections. But, I'm sure that I'm quite sure that I'm not doing anything wrong.
I simply dragged thumbnails into the collection from various folders and the collection shows all 20 images. Then, I close out Bridge and open it later, only to find that there are only 4 images in that collection. There may have been 4 images to start with, but every image I've added does not get remembered. This has happened twice and it's very unnerving because the images I am adding are coming from folders that are all over the place and it's very hard to look up all the pictures again.
What's up with this?
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Mike

I've just noticed this problem, by chance, whilst moving data to a new computer.
We found that files that were in collections were randomly missing from Bridge CS5's display, and sure enough, as described earlier, as soon as a file in the collection with a quote/spostrophe was read, that file and the rest of the collection were missing from Bridge CS5's display.
(This was using Bridge 4.0.3.9. Adobe Application Manager tells me my software is uptodate)
Because we had some backed up copies of Collections from both Bridge CS4 and Bridge CS5, I've been able to work a few things out, which I hope might help someone at Adobe get the problem fixed - and might help a few frustrated users too...
Background
The following entirely applies to Windows 7 (and presumably Windows Vista too):
In Bridge CS4, collections files are stored in:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS4\Collections
In Bridge CS5, collections files are stored in:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Bridge CS5\Collections
Both CS4 and CS5 store their Collections in files called <collection name>.filelist
Both are XML files, where file paths are surrounded by apostrophes:
For example:
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///D:/Shared%20Images/Flowers/RHS/DSC_0788.jpg'>
Both Bridge CS4 and CS5 convert any spaces in file paths to %20 - so /Shared%20Images/ above is actually /Shared Images/ on disk.
The cause of the bug
Crucially, however, in Bridge CS4, any apostrophes (i.e. single quotes) in file paths get converted to %27
But this conversion does not happen in Bridge CS5. And then when filelists get read back in, the data is truncated.
As a developer, I'm surprised at this sort of regression in behaviour, in such expensive software from such a large company.
Workarounds
None of these should be required to be done by a user, I feel, but I have found that they do work, and they could be scripted (e.g. in Python) if someone were sufficiently desparate:
Edit your .filelist files that were created by Bridge CS5, and convert all ' in file paths to %27 - oh yes, and remember to do that every time you add any new files to any existing or new Collections
Edit your .filelist files and change the single quotes at the start and end of each <file uri line to double quotes
I don't regard "remove quotes from your file names" as an acceptable workaround, however. We've got nearly 400GB of files, going back more than 10 years, and various of these are referred to from other locations, e.g. InDesign publications: if we were to rename locations for the benefit of Bridge, we'd break other stuff on the PC.
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This is a huge issue for our office and our IT person has no clue. Help
please.
Look at this thread and the solution from the Image Archivist:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2571008#2571008
And also see his blogspot:
http://imagearchivist.blogspot.com/
And his blog using Bridge to share images across a network from the archive
in july 2009.
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I'm currently using Adobe Bridge CS5. For some reason whenever I turn on bridge, my images do not remain in the collections I put them in. The file paths and names do not have apostrophes, and the number of images within the collections continue dwindling whenever I start the program.
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Are you using different disks (internal, external) or a network set up or do all the files reside on the same disk.
Sometimes read and write permissions change for what ever reason and this can also cause problems for Bridge.
But asside from that Bridge is not very good in acting as Digital Asset Management for archive purposes and collections can be very useful but to my opinion only for a short period and not when you need to rely on them for a long time. If you need to use this for a longer periode I woudl suggest to also add the name of the collection as a keyword. In that way you have a good escape to find choices back.

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28 mars 2012 05:41 in reply to TomEP
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Hello! It would be nice to have a migration script in Bridge too...
In the past, there were folders you could copy, but given the database changes, I'm not sure, I need to check first with the team.
On a Mac, it is in the collections folders in ~Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/Bridge CS5/Collections/
PC(XP): C:Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Adobe\Bridge CS5\collections
VIsta/7: user/app data/roaming/Adobe/Bridge CS5/Collections
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I've seen versions of this question asked but have yet to find the answer.
I have created manual collections in Bridge CS5 that I would like to share with other designers using the same server, thus saving them the time of also creating the collection. I have found that I can pull the collection file from my users/library and send it to them to add to their library, but the problem is if the collection gets updated other users will not see the updates without receiving a new collection file. Is there anyway the collection file could just live on the server and everyone share it? or some way that would produce that results I'm looking for?
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I've seen versions of this question asked but have yet to find the answer.
That's because I think there is no satisfying answer to this question I'm
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