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1. Curt Y,

Dec 28, 2012 2:55 PM in reply to janepell

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Are the keywords italicised? If so right click and choose make persistant.

For Find to work the folders must be indexed. To do this open each folder and wait for spinning arrow to stop.

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2. janepell,

Dec 28, 2012 3:03 PM in reply to Curt Y

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Hi Curt,

No, keywords are not in italic.

And when you say open each folder, do you mean the folders the keywords are in or

folders my photos are in?

If you mean open folders in Bridge, when you double click on the keyword

folders, they just expand or contract. They don't open.

If you could clarify, that would be great.

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3. Omke Oudeman,

Dec 28, 2012 3:04 PM in reply to janepell

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But I cannot use the Find tool to locate by keyword.

Yes you can. Either hit cmd + F or use menu 'edit' and choose 'Find'

This provides a window with several options. First choose your parent folder that includes all the folders with images you want to search for. Then choose the option to search for keyword and at the bottom is a filed with option to set INclude Non indexed files and include subfolders.

The first search might take a bit more time if your folders have not been indexed before. When finished the second time should be faster.

And if your keyword list shows in Italic like Curt stated be sure to export the old list and import it in the new Bridge. Usually a default upgrade should take care of this I believe.

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4. janepell,

Dec 28, 2012 3:12 PM in reply to Omke Oudeman

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Thanks Omke but that's what I'm already doing. I'm not sure how else one would use "Find" without

opening the Find window and selecting the options you mentioned. I look for a keyword in "Pictures"

with "keywords" selected as an option.

All my keywords, as I said, are showing up fine in CS6, and they are not italic.

I can just use CS3. It would be nice to figure this out however.

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5. Curt Y,

Dec 28, 2012 3:51 PM in reply to janepell

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If you click on folder it should open and have thumbnails of all the pictures inside. This is what I mean by opening folder.

Not sure what a keyword folder would be.

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6. janepell,

Dec 28, 2012 4:31 PM in reply to Curt Y

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Hi Curt,

I've been browsing all my folders and seeing my thumbnails and never had to

experience the spinning arrow.

What did just work is to selecte "include all subfolders" when I used Find and had

the main Pictures folder selected. I never had to check this before in CS3 that I new of

or maybe it was checked and I never knew it.

I did not have to include non-indexed folders.

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7. Curt Y,

Dec 28, 2012 4:57 PM in reply to janepell

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If you do not see the spinning arrow then the folder is indexed.

If you do a search remember that the search starts where you direct and then moves DOWN the file hierocracy from there.

Do not believe there were any changes in the Find (search) function from CS3.

So is everything working now?

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8. janepell,

Dec 31, 2012 10:16 AM in reply to Curt Y

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Hi Curt,

Yes, things are working fine. The culprit was the unchecked "Subfolders" box in the Find function, which must have always been checked in my last version of Bridge.

Thanks,

Jane

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