Bridge Smart Collection Error

I am running Bridge on a Mac and am having an issue in creating smart collections. My image files keyworded in metadata. When I attempt to create a Smart Collection by searching in a folder by the keyword (for example) tree, the smart collection does not find all the images with the keyword tree. I am including all subfolders and non indexed files in the search. Any help would be appreciated.

I am having the same issue with the Find (Cmd+F) function.
Do you mean the find function in Bridge or using Finder?
To search for files with a certain keyword you best use the find command in Bridge. Besides having included subfolders and non indexed file make sure your source is the main folder where all the subfolders and files you are looking for are saved.
Also check the criteria settings. For keywords best choose the keywords in the first field and 'contains ' in the second field, use the plus sign to add an other keyword to the list if you want to search for multiple keywords
Under results set Match to if any criteria are met. If you have set this to if all criteria are met it only shows the files containing all the searched keywords which also can narrow the search down.
And check if you have read and write permission for the disk the files are on.

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Ty in advance.

Thanks for the quick reply, CP
FYI, the file is a photographic panorama based on several .CR2 photos taken in July, 2012 and processed in CS5's camera RAW/Photoshop. Beyond the metadata, here are no fonts or text in the file.
1. I changed Maximize ...File Capability from "Never" to "Always" and the flattened file saved and loaded OK, though I can't figure why given Adobe's description of this option. "If you work with PSD and PSB files in older versions of Photoshop or applications that don’t support layers, you can add a flattened version of the image to the saved file...". The file saved in this manner is ~8% larger and is not my preference as a routine since I've TB's of photo files. By the way, out of thousands of .psd/.psb files, the one being discussed is the first to give me the error.
2. I've tried saving/reloading the file on another computer with Win XP Sp3/CS5...again with Maximize Capability OFF. Same problem. Turn ON Maximize Capability and it works. As with the Win 8 machine, Bridge could neither create a thumbnail or read Metadata.
3. I've purged the Bridge Cache, made sure there were no old PS page files, reset PS preferences, and disabled my 2 plugins with no change in the problem. Windows and Adobe progs are all updated. Saving to a different HDD has no effect.
The problem occurs on 2 computers (Win XP/Win 8), two versioins of Photoshop (CS5/CS6), and "Maximize" On/Off togles the problem. My guess it is a bug in PSD processing routines.
If I can't find a fix, will keep with Maximize ON and deal with the larger files that result...the cost of insurance, I suppose.
Thanks again

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I have Lightroom 6.01. The Duplicate Published Smart Collection feature does not work. Whenever I right click on a Published Smart Collection to invoke the Duplicate... command, I get an error message each time I attempt to do this. The error message says "An internal error has occurred. Assertion failed."

mrhoni wrote:
It says I have to manually reapply when images change.
Right - it computes filtered images on demand, instead of attempting to keep up-to-date. But, you can narrow down the search using "Keywords Contains Dogs", then use AnyFilter to refine the results (check "Visible photos only") - much faster that way.
Note: consider SpaceUrchin too - tricky to learn syntax, but allows you to refine Lr's searches by simply typing into Lr's search box, and searches can be saved as ordinary lib filters. For example, if you have SpaceUrchin installed, then typing:
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Dogs | text=Dogs | stop=4
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mrhoni wrote:
I would think it would only select the Smugmug Published Collection "Dogs" and not the Collection "Our Dogs" because while "Our Dogs" does end with "Dogs" it does not start with "Dogs".
You would think wrongly in this case. Lightroom divides the search target into tokens, governed by spaces, then does the same to the search term, then applies each search token to each target token, in turn.
Thus "Our Dogs" (when so tokenized) becomes
1. Our
2. Dogs
in the eyes of Lightroom's searcher.
Given that, "Our Dogs" does have a token that begins with "Dogs", thus it is considered a match.
PS - If it's any consolation, I don't like the way Lightroom treats spaces in metadata and search terms either. But, I realized this long ago, and converted all multi-word keywords to single-word, so the only problem I have is with non-keyword metadata, and for that I usually use SpaceUrchin, and sometimes AnyFilter.
Maybe one day I will create a plugin which replicates all metadata fields without spaces, so searching can be done the way many of us wants (using Lr native search facilities). Until then... - good luck.
Rob

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Photoshop CS6 products Windows 8.1 operating system I am using on my laptop. Questions about the methods I've found on the internet I decided to ask you thinking what I did.
In Bridge, you can create a collection but I could not create smart collections. When I click on the icon opens the window with several variations, but when you click on the save button does not do any thing. I'm asking for your help on the issue.

John,
We did not see any validation errors when we deployed, so I'm assuming these values were passed correctly through EPMA.
Please let me know if I can check in any other way.
About the evaluation order, I do not see that in the Planning, or System properties of the Smart list or the Dimension members in the shared library.
Can you tell me where I can find this property?
Sorry this is my first time with EPMA and Planning :)
Thanks for replying!
Anindyo

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I'm having an issue with Bridge CC were I setup a smart collection to monitor my new photos.
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I don't have CS5 installed anymore but CS6 is still present while I use Bridge CC for my daily workflow (MacPro MacOSX 10.8.5).
I first copied 4 DNG files from my main folder to a subfolder. Those files I added a name to the IPTC extension persons name and saved.
Checked and this name shows in the IPTC extension persons name field in Metadata panel as well as in Advanced Tab in File Info IPTC Extended Properties / IPTC4xmpExt:PersonInImage(Bag container).
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Your comment leads me to believe that my assumption was correct ... if the NAS is connected (original images) then the histogram in the Develop Module should show "Original+Smart Previews".

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Select the Parent Folder which holds image files on each of your HDs;
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Is there a way to view the collections on both computers?
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What we're finding severely lacking in the criteria options:
"Path name"    - would be ideal for excluding any files with a specified folder name in the path.
"Newer than"    - x amount of days
"Media type"    - dropdown list of "Video" "Image" "Audio" etc.
"Extensions"     - space delimited list, rather than single file type (".PSD .PNG .JPG") etc
With just one or two of these options the smart collections could actually be useful.
This is a user to user to Forum and while these are very good suggestions you might also want to try and post it on the Photoshop family forum which is recommended for feature Requests:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/
But be warned, don't hold your breath waiting for it to get realized. There have been tons of ideas for improvement and with Bridge already at version 6 the most changed result for the past 3 versions is that they removed functionality (AOM, Export panel and Sync windows) instead of adding improvement…

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