Damette Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 I have a Mac laptop running Monterey and Photoshop 2022. It is over 3 years old, and has 16GB of RAM. Its hard drive has 220GB free out of 1000GB. The last time I shut down was just before posting this thread. I have never run a cleanup program. I move my photos from my SD card to externals. I was able to copy over to the external drive but when I tried to open it in bridge it shows no items. If i right click in the content and "reveal in finder" it opens finder and shows all the content. I've been using this external drive for quite a while as it had 4TB of space and still has 700GB left and never run into this issue. I've searched your facebook group and the site and couldn't find a solution. So far I have restarted bridge and photoshop. Restarted the computer. Removed all external drives plugged in and moved to different USB ports. On that attempt the folders within the external drive became visible however when I clicked on them to show their contents it also said no items. I've restarted since then again. My mac is up-to-date on all its software. I have another external drive that is working just fine so it leads me to believe there's an issue with this drive? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 10 minutes ago, Damette said: If i right click in the content and "reveal in finder" it opens finder and shows all the content. From Finder, can you double-click one of the files and open it in Photoshop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damette Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 Yup! They're all there. While I was waiting for a reply I added Bridge to the security tab under the privacy settings as someone suggested on google. Then restarted. Still nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damette Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 That was interesting. After it opened in ACR and I hit done to close it it gave me this warning. I think there has to be something wrong with the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien Symonds Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Not necessarily "wrong". But yes, there's something with the permissions. I'm going to move this thread into Brian's area, because he knows much more about this stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damette Posted April 19, 2022 Author Share Posted April 19, 2022 https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/bridge-2020-not-seeing-files-on-external-hard-drive-mac-os-catalina/td-p/11046980 Gary's response regarding Full Disk Access seemed to do the trick. I don't know why only one external would have issues however at least I can access my photos again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Another thing to try is adding Bridge to the "Accessibility" item in the Security & Privacy Section. I know if people update their MacOS, especially with Monterey, this setting sometimes gets defaulted and Bridge/Photoshop/Lightroom start giving you Permissions errors. Basically, you do the same thing as Full Disk Access, unlock the Padlock on the lower left, and then click Accessibility. Then click the + and go find Bridge. There is also a command line we can try to reset Permissions for your Profile, but lets jump off that Bridge when we get to it. (See what I did there? I kill me!! LOL!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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