Today’s Question: You’ve mentioned the ability to mark folders with color labels or stars in Lightroom Classic, but is there a similar feature for those of us using Adobe Bridge to provide faster access to folders we use more frequently?
Tim’s Quick Answer: You can indeed mark folders as favorites in Adobe Bridge to provide faster access.
More Detail: Perhaps the easiest way to get fast access to folders you’re most likely to browse in Adobe Bridge is to mark those folders as favorites. You can then access your favorite folders quickly and easily by going to the Favorites panel.
To mark a folder as a favorite, go to the Folders panel and right-click on a folder, then choose “Add To Favorites” from the popup menu. This will mark the folder as a favorite, so it will appear on the Favorites panel. This will also cause the popup menu to change for that folder, so that when you right-click on it you will instead see a “Remove From Favorites” option, which can obviously be selected to remove the folder from the Favorites panel.
You can then navigate to the folder quickly by going to the Favorites panel and clicking on the applicable folder there. When you click on the folder in Favorites, you’ll be able to see subfolders in the Content panel, as long as “Show Folders” is enabled on the View menu. However, you can’t simply expand the folder to see subfolders on the Favorites panel. But if after selecting a folder on the Favorites panel you switch to the Folders panel, the selected folder will be highlighted, and you can then click the caret symbol to the left of the folder to expand to reveal subfolders.
The Favorites panel is included by default in the Essentials and Filmstrip workspaces, which can be selected from the Window > Workspace submenu. You can also enable the Favorites panel in a workspace that doesn’t include it by choosing Window > Favorites from the menu.
