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Probably a silly question about Adobe bridge
I am trying to do what should be simple in Bridge. I select a drive which contains tons of .avi files. Then I try to search for *.avi and the search returns nothing. I have changed every setting possible in the search dialogue box. What am I doing wrong.
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Ok. It was a silly question sort of. I expected bridge to work with windows file conventions in the “Find” dialogue box since the help file said bridge used wildcards. To find .avi files under criteria I selected Filename => ends with => avi. Leaving out *.avi was the answer.
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I thought it was just me, but the Bridge search function is GLACIAL on my box, beside ignoring apparent file matches to my search words. I don’t think it’s just avi file matches. I workaround by leaving a windows search box open on my second screen, then drag and drop into Photoshop (which I use more than Premiere these days.) Much faster.
Another problem you may run into….With a lot of files on your content drive, Bridge doesn’t seem to want to QUIT searching until it’s done. (Esc doesn’t do anything) So you can be stuck waiting while your whole system tries to do a search you really don’t want. This is on cs2 suite.
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