Lost Bridge when hard drive crashed. Restored bridge on new computer. Recovered hard disk using DiskWarrior but cannot rebuild directory due to critical errors. Now need to restore just photos to new computer. Need to know which file in Bridge photos re

After multiple recovery attempts I finally used DiskWarrior to download saved files/folder/applicatiions to external hard drive. I cannot get old version (5.0) of bridge to run. Redownload Bridge (5.1) but still need to recover my photos.
Any advise on how this can be accomplished.

Bridge is only a browser. It does not contain any files. You need to find out where you saved your photos, and hope they are still accessible on the crashed drive... Just copy them over to your new drive.

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Note that the OP apparently DID have a backup, and restored all of the music to iTunes. We are so used to people not having backups that we assume that no one does.
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