4 Replies Latest reply: Dec 13, 2011 10:35 AM by reindeer4 RSS

    Applying keywords to subdirectories

    reindeer4 Community Member

      I have a Videos folder with lots of subdirectories, each of which contain lots of video clips.

       

      I've applied keywords to the bulk of the clips.

       

      When I'm at the top directory, however, I can't filter based on the keywords. 

       

      Is there any way around this (other than dumping all of my large video files into the same directory)?

       

      I'd like to keep my videos organized in folders, but I also want to be able to search the entire parent directory with bridge's keyword functionality.

       

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: Applying keywords to subdirectories
          Curt Y Community Member

          I have a structure like this

           

          main folder

               sub folders

               sub folder

               sub folder

                    sub folder

                    sub folder

                        sub folder

                        sub folder

           

          and it finds keywords just fine.

           

          Everything has to be indexed however for Find to work.

          • 2. Re: Applying keywords to subdirectories
            reindeer4 Community Member

            Hey Curt -

             

            I'd stumbled on that (the Find command) in the past and subsequentyly forgotten about it - and that works just as you described, giving me the option of searching through my subfolders.  This leaves 2 questions, though.

             

            1) First, how do you force Bridge to go through and Index the contents of a folder?  (otherwise you have oiption to search non-indexed files along with warning that could take a long time)

             

            2) What I'd really like to be able to do is use the Filter Panel to select from the list of keywords.  This Filter Panel, however, only seems to make the Keywords found directly inside of its root level available - so if I have a Video folder holding 10 subfolders with different types of videos, all labeled with keywords, none of those words are listed when the Video folder is selected. Instead I have to go into each subdirectory individually and add my filters there.  That's really what I'm trying to work out.  Can you start in a parent directory and filter by keyword to pull up relevant videos from all of its subdirectories.

             

            Thanks for whatever information you can provide.

            • 3. Re: Applying keywords to subdirectories
              Curt Y Community Member

              The filter only works on the screen view, so like you surmised if you want to use the filter you would have to have everything in one folder.

               

              Using search for non-indexed files is slow, as it indexes everything.  But you only need to do it once, provided the cache does holds all the thumbs without erasing old ones.  Do this operation when you go to lunch.

              • 4. Re: Applying keywords to subdirectories
                reindeer4 Community Member

                OK.  Thanks for the help on both those issues.