0 Replies Latest reply: Aug 24, 2009 9:18 PM by DavidSalahi RSS

    Windows 7 Libraries Support Needed

    DavidSalahi Community Member

      Windows 7 has a great feature called Libraries that allows you to link multiple directories into a single logical folder. This helps you to organize assets for a project that may be scattered across multiple drives or the network into a single place. However, this feature isn't properly supported by Bridge.

       

      The problem is that, although libraries do show up in Bridge, they show up with no context. So, you can't tell which drive a folder is on or what folder a given folder may be a sub-folder of. Without this context it can be very difficult to make proper use of the library feature. For example, if you have several folders all having the same name, the only thing that differentiates them is their parent folders/drives. But the parent folder/drive names aren't shown. Without this contextual info, the only way to know what's in a given folder is to drill down into it and look.

       

      Even worse is the fact that all the contents of all the folders get lumped into a single virtual folder in Bridge. So, for example, consider a folder called Menu with and another folder called Images in different places on my hard drive and I add them both to a library. When I view my library in Bridge all the files in both folders are listed together in the library as though those files were all within a single folder. What Bridge needs to do instead is show the folders Menu and Images and show the contents within those folders.

       

      These problems make libraries essentially useless in Bridge. Bridge needs to provide this context in the same way that Windows Explorer does.

       

      David Salahi