I've not had this problem with Bridge on Mac OS X. If I quit it while
looking at a memory card volume that I subsequently remove from the
system, when next it starts up it will always be looking at the root
directory of my login account. Same as with any other volume that goes
off line.
Lightroom maintains volume/filepath references to the volumes that
you've imported image files from in the catalog (database) and caches
the previews locally (in the same directory as the database file).
When volumes are off-line or otherwise not reachable, it simply marks
them in the Folder panel and Grid, and notes that the source
repository is off line which limits editing and export operations. You
can still browse anything that has been imported.
Volumes mounted from memory cards on Windows could be a bit tricky.
From an OS perspective, there is the physical adapter (the reader)
and the card itself, then the volume it contains. The relationship of
reader to card to logical volume is dynamic. In Mac OS X's file system
this is represented pretty cleanly. I don't know about Windows in this
regard.
Godfrey
On Apr 4, 2009, at 10:05 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
Found out something about Adobe Bridge I didn't know, and wondered
if Lightroom does the same thing. Figured I might as well stir the
pot up a little.
I left Bridge pointing at a "removable drive" [memory card in a USB
reader] when I closed it the other day. I subsequently removed the
memory card from the reader and put it back in the camera.
The next time I started Bridge, it popped up an error box saying the
drive did not exist giving me the option to Quit Bridge altogether,
cancel (?) or retry?
I don't know what cancel was supposed to do; all it did was pop the
error box back up again ... and again, and again, and ...
Quit wouldn't work either, because I couldn't clear the error box to
allow the program to quit.
Couldn't kill the program in Task Manager. End now just hung. Even
"the program is not responding *END NOW* wouldn't work. Finally
managed to go to the Processes tab and manually kill bridge.exe, but
that didn't help me get the program open so I could change the
"drive" it was pointing to.
I had to go get the camera, take the memory card out and plug it
into the reader to open the program and put it back to looking
somewhere on the hard-drive.
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