Hey Everyone,
If you could lend a hand that would be incredible, I've been scratching my head over this for the last few days.
At our small business we use a network drive to store our library of Photographs. They're broken up into sub-folders inside an alphabetized master folder by last name.
We all run the exact same edition of Photoshop + Bridge CS5.
When I work on a client's file, I drag their entire folder onto my desktop, do my edits on it there, and then tag its metadata with several Keywords through Bridge, then cut the folder back to its place on the drive.
When I search for keywords in my Bridge using Ctrl-F, all the photographs I've tagged come up exactly how I'd like them to from inside the network drive. (I'm assuming this is because all those folders are cached on my Bridge somewhere so it knows where to look?)
------ Here is the problem.
When another user in our business pulls up their bridge, they type in the keywords, and none of the pictures show up, UNLESS they've also opened and fully loaded each of the folders that these pictures have been in.
------ Here is the question:
This other user doesn't have the time to go through and open all these pictures, she needs to be able to quickly find all images on this network drive that have been keyworded.
How can I make this happen? I've cleaned her cache and now when I try to search for something its slowly going through the entire 1.8 TB drive "indexing" each of the files. Perhaps I just need to let it do that??
Thoughts? Suggestions? Answers?
Thank you all very much.