Sharing a Bridge Collections in CS5

Hello,
I did see an earlier post also asking about this, but the link to what would be a workaround is for an older version.
If I create a collection based on a search on a network and I want to share that collection with the other computers in my group, so that they keep populating in their collection, is there anyway to do this. Seems like this would be an important part of this feature?
Does every computer in my group have to create the collection using the same search criteria themselves?
thanks!
babs

iBabs2 wrote:
If I create a collection based on a search on a network and I want to share that collection with the other computers in my group, so that they keep populating in their collection, is there anyway to do this. Seems like this would be an important part of this feature?
I'm not sure what you mean by "so they keep populating in their collection."
A collection is an XMP file with a file name of "CollectionName.filelist".
It is located in ~Library/ApplicationSupport/Adobe/Bridge CS5/Collections/.
You can move these files from one computer to another. You can make the process easier by making an alias to the Collections folder on each system.
The file struction is quite simple - it is XMP, NOT a database file. The "Volumes" or drives can be any mounted drive on the Mac - a local drive or a network drive. In this example, Drive1 is local, and RAID_HD is on an XServe. It's basically a path to the file. (The %20 is a space character.)
TestCollection.filelist
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<arbitrary_collection version='1'>
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/Disk1/Panama%20Trip/Panama%20RAW%20Files/RD-100425559.NEF' >
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/Disk1/Panama%20Trip/Panama%20RAW%20Files/RD-100428622.NEF' >
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/Disk1/Panama%20Trip/Panama%20RAW%20Files/RD-100430108.NEF' >
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/RAID_HD/ImageBank/Hi-Res%20Masters/4.%20Uploaded%20TIFF%20 Masters/Owls/R-87020125.tif'>
<file uri='bridge:fs:file:///Volumes/RAID_HD/ImageBank/Hi-Res%20Masters/4.%20Uploaded%20TIFF%20 Masters/Owls/R-89030111.tif'>
</arbitrary_collection>
Hope that helps.
If you're trying to get fancy and make a "hot folder" to auto-update Collections on other computers over the network, I haven' tried it.
--Rich

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