Keyword searches in Mac Finder run very quickly, faster than they ever did in Bridge! If you have a backup of your Bridge keywords, in the form of a text file that you can open and refer to rather than trying to recall all your keywords, you can easily search for those keywords in Finder. I will give instructions for how to do this below, and conclude with a message I received from Picktorial regarding their app running on M1’s. (One tab cannot have fewer spaces than another tab.) I have about 24 icons in my Dock out of hundreds of applications, and all are easy to find.Īfter posting my original message, I looked further into the Finder app’s search function on my M1 Mac and discovered that it will do searches by metadata field. You can expand any tab to hold as many applications as you need. within each tab are all of the applications I have for that category and you can have one application's icon in as many tabs as you want. I, for example, have one for Maintenance, one for Drawing, one for Adobe applications, one for Web things, etc. Applications are placed (by you) in tabs and there are as many tabs as you need. One click on an application or document opens that item. Overflow is a single icon in your Dock that can hold both documents AND applications as icons. There are others I use so seldom that I can't remember I have them and certainly do not need them in my Dock but need to easily find them when I do need them. There are others I use often that I really do not need in my Dock. Oh wait, one more bonus app: Overflow! I have MANY applications, some I use all the time and they are in my Dock. If you chose to use them, mention me and we both get an extra month free. Again, keep it for a nominal charge or send it back. If you want more back, they will send you an 8 TB drive. Keep it and get a very reasonable charge for the drive or return the drive. For more files, they will send you a 128 GB Flash Drive. For a few files you can just download them from the site. BackBlaze is not expensive and provide multiple ways to get your data back depending on how much you need back. A backup drive doesn't mean much if the house has burned down. I also use BackBlaze, to back everything up to the clouds. I have a 2nd external drive that I back up from drive one (in case it fails (and I have had that happen)). While I'm at this, a bonus: I have all of my images on one external drive. Plus, you can set it to back up OR mirror so if you delete a file on drive one, it will either (your choice) delete it from drive two or put it into an archive folder so you can access files you've deleted on drive one. But, as an example, if you back up your images onto a 2nd hard drive, it will compare what's on drive one with drive two and know which ones have been updated or new and only move them over. It's range of capabilities is extraordinary and impossible to do it justice in a short paragraph. There are many other features.Ĭhronosync is a copy/backup application that does Zero-Sum calculations so you always know you're getting everything you intended to copy/backup. Plus, if you're like me and have many windows and folder open, if you are in a Save or Open window and just drag your mouse around the screen and move over the folder you're looking for, you can click on application windows and open a folder. Plus, you can have "Favorites," so if you are constantly going to one folder every month or so, make it a Favorite. So, for example, if you are going back and forth from multiple folders, when in the Save window or Open window, you can easily and quickly chose which folder you want to go to. My other two "MUST HAVE" apps include "Default Folder" and "ChronoSync."ĭefault Folder provides immediate access to any folder you've used in the past 10 (the actual # is a pref) uses. Can anyone comment on these or suggest another? The only ones that seem to fit the bill without br eaking the bank are ACDsee Photo Studio for Mac 8 (one-time purchase $79.95) and Picktorial ($5 per month). I have looked online at about 10 digital asset management programs. I thought perhaps I could use Lightroom Classic to perform simple searches, but posts on Adobe's Lightroom Forum make it sound like the effort to get Lightroom up and working would be considerable. In the meantime, I would really like to find a way to search my image library by keyword. Needless to say I am disappointed to learn that, although Photoshop will now work fairly well on my new Mac mini M1, Bridge will not, and Adobe has not set an ETA for an ARM-compatible version. I've used Bridge as my image assets manager on Windows PCs for six years and have a lot of study and hard work invested in learning Bridge's features and adding keywords and other metadata to my images. From reading messages posted on this forum by owners of M1 Macs, I gather that Bridge is currently unuseable for searching by keywords.
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