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Learn how to use the Favorites panel to get quick access to your favorite files and folders. 

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The Favorites panel in Adobe Bridge is filled with, well, your favorites.

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But let's take a look at how they actually get here,

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how to move them around, and what you really should be using this panel for.

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First of all, folders or files in the Favorites panel are not moved from your computer's file system. 

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They are simply bookmarked or pinned, giving you quick access. 

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Think of this as kind of like the bookmarks on your computer browser. 

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Bookmarking a website in your browser, doesn't actually move that

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website, it just kind of gives you a link to that website. So in the Favorites panel,

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to go directly to a favorited file or folder, click on that

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folder in the Favorites panel. To delete a favorite from the Favorites panel,

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right-click in Windows or Control-click on a Mac, on the file or folder,

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and choose Remove from Favorites. Now, removing something from the Favorites

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panel does not delete it or remove it from your computer. It simply breaks

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the link that you had originally created. To reorder a file or folder

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within your Favorites panel, click on the folder or file and

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drag. When you see that thin blue line, let go,

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and it will be positioned in the new place. Now be careful with this because

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you can accidentally drop a folder or a file into another folder

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by simply hovering over that folder. Now these folders are not going to let me do that because

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they are system folders, but if they were folders that you added, it will let you do that

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and it can become confusing. Now, if you do accidentally move a file or

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folder into another folder, you can step backwards by pressing

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Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on a Mac to undo that step. Now, you cannot undo

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the removing of a favorite. So, for example, I removed the computer link

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from my favorites, but once that's removed, I cannot press Ctrl+Z or Command+Z on a Mac

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to get it back. If I wanted it back, I'd have to go find it in my folders panel and click and drag

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it into my favorites panel. So, speaking of that, let me tell you how to add a favorite.

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To add a favorite to the favorites panel in this particular setup, you would do so

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either from the folders panel or the content panel. So, for example, if I

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wanted to add my downloads folder to my favorites panel

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in the folders panel, I can click and drag that downloads

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folder up to the favorites panel and

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when I let go after seeing that thin blue line, it will be placed right where I added it.

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And as I already alluded to, you can also move files, not just

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folders into the favorites panel. So let's say I wanted to get a quick

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link to my strawberries picture for some reason. I can click and drag from the content panel

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over to the favorites panel and I want to put this one all the way at the top.

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So when I see that thin blue line all the way at the top, I'll let go. And now my strawberries picture

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is pinned in the favorites panel. Now besides clicking and dragging, you

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can also add to the favorites panel by right clicking in windows or control clicking on

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a Mac on a file or folder and choose add to favorites. You can also do this

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in the menu bar. If I activate a file or folder, either in the contents

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panel or the folders panel, then in the menu bar, I can choose file,

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add to favorites. Whenever you add to favorites using a menu

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bar, the favorite will always land at the bottom of the list. Again, if you need

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to widen the favorites panel, you can simply click and drag on its boundaries.

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Now there is a drawback to consider when using the favorites panel. Moving a favorite

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file or folder or changing its name is going to cause the favorite to be disconnected.

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So let me give you an example. Here's this strawberries file that is in my

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main folder and I am going to click on it to rename it. I'm just going to put

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a two at the end of it. It has the same name, just a two at the end.

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And then, I will commit that change. Okay, you can see that that strawberries file is still up here

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in my favorites, but if you look closely, there's no two in the name.

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So changing your name of a file or moving it either within the contents

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panel or the folders panel is not going to update it in the favorites panel.

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These are links to the old file. So if I were to try to click

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on this strawberries file to activate it, Bridge is going to throw

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a little mini fit. Saying, "Ah! That file is no longer available."

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I'll have to click okay and you can see that it's been removed from the favorites panel. So that's

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just something to consider when you decide what you're going to put in favorites. It should probably be something

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that you don't typically move or rename. Personally I recommend that you use this

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panel sparingly but it can be absolutely essential when you're working on a particular project.

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Now we're going to go into those projects in depth later in this class in other modules.

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Now you may be thinking that this would be a great place to add a link to

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your photos and to your scrapbooking folder. And

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honestly, about a year ago, that's exactly what I did. It really helped me to scrapbook. But

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since the introduction of additional content tabs, I now use those to scrapbook

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and I'm going to show you all about that in the next video. But until then, let's talk

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about some possible benefits for using the favorites panel that you may not have thought about.

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One for example, would be that if you are someone who's constantly downloading kits and

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content, you may want to pin your downloads folder to the favorites

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panel. This will allow you one-click easy access to drag things into

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and out of the downloads folder. I use my downloads folder constantly,

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like probably every day. So that's definitely something that I would want to have in my favorites panel.

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Also, let's say you're working on collecting all of the brush files on your computer and putting them into

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one place. Well, if you were to create a folder called brushes and then pin that

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brush folder up here in the favorites panel, then every time you found a brush file,

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you could quickly click and drag it into that folder. You wouldn't have to go down here into the folders

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panel and try to navigate through all of your folders, looking for that brush folder

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that you created. Just creates an extra quick link. And I will say that once

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I am done using that folder in the favorites panel, I will go through and

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remove anything that I'm not currently using. So I'm going to

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remove the pictures. I never use my documents folder and I do not need

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my main folder. I don't need my desktop because that's staring at me

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all the time. Right now, I'm just going to keep my downloads folder there and stick

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with that. Like I said, we're going to be working more with this panel as we move through this class,

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but right now, I think that's going to do it. So up next, we're going to take a look at the contents

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panel. And that's going to totally round out your scrapbooking workspace.

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There's lots more for us to talk about in this module of building bridges, but until then, I will see you

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in the next video. This has been Jen White.