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Take a tour of the Folders panel in Adobe Bridge and see what it can do for you. 

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As I mentioned in the last video, the Folders panel shows an exact

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representation of the folder hierarchy from your computer. 

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Let me explain. Here I'm showing you Adobe Bridge and my Finder window

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in Mac. This should be similar to displaying your Explorer window on a PC.

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So here's my main Jen White user folder in Bridge and

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here's my main Jen White folder in Finder. Here's the contents

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of that folder in Bridge and here's the contents of that folder

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in Finder. They are an exact representation of each other. To further

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illustrate this, here in Finder, I'm going to rename this image that I placed

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here. And I can just do that by right-clicking in Windows or Ctrl-clicking on a Mac, on the image

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and then choosing rename. I'm just going to rename this,

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strawberries, and then press Enter or Return. Now look in Bridge

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Within a second or two, that image will also be renamed. This

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is one of the things that sets Bridge apart from other organizing applications.

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Bridge does not have its own catalog that can be disconnected or simply go berserk. 

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So let's take a look at what you're going to find in the Folders panel. 

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In the folders panel, when you see a down-facing arrow to the left of a folder,

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that means that the nested folders are being revealed to you. A right-facing

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arrow to the left of a folder means there are more folders that are nested

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within that you cannot see. To see the folders that are being hidden,

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click on the arrow to reveal them. No arrow to the left of a folder means

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there are no additional nested folders within that folder. Now the folders

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panel will only show you folders, not the images inside the folders.

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To see the images within a folder, first click on a folder in the folders

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panel that contains images, and then you can view those images in the contents

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panel. Now this folder not only contains lots of other folders, but it also

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contains some images not inside folders, such as this image right here.

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Next I'll show you some things that you can do inside the folders panel. First

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of all, you can open a folder in a new window. To do that, right

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click in windows, or Ctrl click on a Mac, on a folder and choose

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open in new window. Bridge is going to give you a dialog box just

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making sure that you know that this is going to open a secondary window. Also this secondary window

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will not support floating panels. We talked about that in the last video. So

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go ahead and click OK and if you don't want to see this message again, click on do not

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show again. Now you actually have two versions of bridge that are open,

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and notice that this version here tells you that it's the secondary window, just so

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that you don't expect it to act exactly like the first one. So you may be wondering why

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would you want to do this? Well nowadays, it's very common for someone to have two monitors

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on their desk, and you may want to have one window of bridge on one

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monitor and one window on the other monitor and then you could be doing

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different things within each window of bridge and you wouldn't have to lose your

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place of where you were or things like that. So I'm going to go ahead and close this secondary window

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and show you that the next thing that you can do is you can open a folder within a new

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content tab. So let's say that I wanted to open my music

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folder in another tab. In the folders panel, I'll right click in Windows,

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or Ctrl-click on a Mac, on the music folder and choose open in new

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content tab. Now just like a browser on your computer,

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the content panel now has two tabs. One contains my music folder, which by the way contains

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absolutely nothing because I don't have any music on my computer, and the other one

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contains my downloads. I'll show you more fancy ways to work with tabs

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in the contents video of this module. But for now I'm going to go ahead

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and close this music tab so that it doesn't create any confusion. The next

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thing you can do in the folders panel is to create a new folder. To do that

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click to activate the parent folder, which would be the folder that you want to add

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a new folder to, and then right click in Windows, or Control click on a Mac, on

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that folder and choose new folder. 

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In this case, in my folders panel, I'm not going to see that new folder appear because I

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have the arrow of that parent folder closed so it's not showing me the folders

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within it. But over here in the contents panel, you'll see that that new folder

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has appeared. I'll go ahead and name it new folder and then press enter

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or return to commit the change. And now I have a new folder. Over here in the folders

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panel, now I can click on the arrow to open the music parent folder and I can see

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that there's two folders inside, which is exactly what I'm seeing in the content panel.

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Another option that you have within the folders panel, is to right-click in Windows or control click

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on a Mac on a folder, and choose sort, and then you have other options

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for sorting. This would be something that you was look for the results of it in

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the contents panel, and it would be helpful for times when you're looking for something

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specific, but I am not going to resort my folder because now we'll take

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a look at the next function. I'm going to scroll up a little bit here and

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then in my downloads folder I'll show you that if you

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right-click in Windows, or control click on a Mac, on a folder,

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one of the choices is to copy. This is a copy and paste function.

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Now you can't copy and paste a folder into the same folder, like as if you were duplicating it.

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But you can copy it, so I just copied this folder of a font

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and let's say I wanted to put a copy of that font

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into my music's folder. So I would right-click in Windows or control

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click on a Mac on the music folder and choose paste. and now

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you can see here in the folders panel, also in the content panel, that a copy

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of that font folder was placed right where I told it to go.

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this is a good time to mention that Adobe Bridge does have an undo feature, but

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it's not nearly as robust as what you're used to. It will only go back a step

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or two. So at this point I have pasted this font folder in my music folder, but

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you know I don't really know why anybody would want to do that. So let's say I made a mistake and I'm going

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to press Control Z in Windows or Command Z on a Mac and that's going to undo.

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Like I said this function does work but don't expect it to go much farther than

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that. If you make a mistake you're really going to only get about one thing to back up.

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Sometimes a little bit more and sometimes not. Okay so let's take a look at the next function

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within the folders panel. In the folders panel you can right click in Windows

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or control click on a Mac on a folder. I'm going to scroll up here and

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choose this folder right here. And you'll be given the option to reveal the contents

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of that folder in your finder window or explorer window. So when I click on that

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that finder window is going to pop up and I can see what's inside of it. There are other apps that

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don't want to work nicely with Adobe Bridge and for that reason sometimes you need to open the contents

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in a new window and then you can use them with another app. Another thing

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that you can do in Adobe Bridge in the folder's panel is you can right click

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in Windows or control click on a Mac on a folder and choose add to favorites

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And notice that it just added it up here in the favorites panel. We'll talk

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more about the favorites panel coming up in another video in this module. The next feature

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I want to show you is that you can actually delete a folder within the folders panel by right

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clicking in Windows or control clicking on a Mac on a folder and choose

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delete in Windows or move to bin on a Mac. Normally on a Mac this would say move

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to trash. But as of this recording bridge for Mac is stuck with the UK version of English

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instead of the US version of English. So when I click on move to

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bin it's going to say are you sure and then if I'm sure I click delete.

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Now if you delete a lot you're going to get tired of seeing this. So before you click delete you may want to click on the

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do not show again and then click delete. Now I'm going to click cancel because I want to keep that

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font folder in my downloads. Next I'll show you that you can rename a folder within

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the folders panel. If I right click in Windows or Control-click on a Mac

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on this font folder and choose rename, it's going to highlight

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the name, and then I can rename it. Let's say I just want to put in an

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indicating word such as font, and then press enter a return. and now that

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folder is renamed. Now there is a caution to this that I want to make sure that you understand. I would

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only recommend renaming folders that you've created or added to your computer. Don't

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try renaming system folders. You'll probably get into trouble by doing something like that.

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A lot of times your computer won't let you do that, but every once in a while you can find a loophole

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and totally mess things up. And here's the last thing that I wanted to show you that can be

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done in the folders panel. You can move folders around. Now you can't

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reorder them. That's what we would do if we were going to sort them. But you can move

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to nest them into other folders. For example, here is a folder

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of quick pages. Now, if you look at the name that this designer has named the folder,

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she's named it Quick Page 2. Well, that's because above it, there's a quick page

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1. There's three quick pages in this folder and four quick pages in this one.

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She gave me two different folders to reduce the file size when I'm downloading. But once I get them on

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my computer, I don't need them into separate folders. So one thing that you can do to combine them

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in the folders panel is I can click and drag this QP2 folder up

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to the QP folder, which is the main one, and you can see that it's being highlighted.

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See here, it's being highlighted. Now, sometimes, if you click between two folders,

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you're going to see that a little no symbol has been added, meaning that you can't move that

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folder there. So I'm going to just reposition this so that I'm over those words of that

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folder. There's no no symbol. So when I let go, the QP2 folder

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will be moved into the QP folder, and it's activated it, and I can see that there it is inside

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that folder. Now, there is one caveat to that is that you cannot move images

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within the folder's panel. You can only move folders. So for this example,

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what I've done here by moving the QP2 folder into this other folder of quick

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pages, hasn't really helped me, because remember when I said earlier in this class that you

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will not use what you cannot see? Well, at this point, I can only see three quick pages.

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I don't want to have to be clicking through folders all the time. So what I really need to do is to add all

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the quick pages into one folder. I'm going to show you quickly how to do this,

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but this is something that really we're going to cover in the contents panel video of this class. So what I'll

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do is open that QP2 folder by just double clicking on it here

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in the contents panel. And now I can see those extra four quick pages.

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I'm going to select them all by clicking and dragging across all four of them. Now

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they're all four activated. Next I'll click and drag those four

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images over here to the folders panel once again into

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that QP folder. If I try to place them into the QP2 folder, it's going

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to say no no no no no you can't do that because they're already there. So I'm going to highlight

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over that QP folder and when I let go of my mouse they're going to move.

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Now you can see that that QP2 folder is now empty. If I click on

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the QP folder, there's all seven of those images which is exactly

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what I needed. So at this point I would just go ahead and delete this QP2

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folder by right clicking in Windows or control clicking on a Mac on that folder

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and choose move to bin. I'll click delete and

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there it goes. Now it's no longer within that folder and not cluttering

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things up. So I hope you have learned something about the folders panel in Adobe Bridge.

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Coming up in the next video we're going to take a look at the favorites panel. I'll see you

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there. This has been Jen White.