Saturday, March 8, 2014

Adobe Bridge - update on our image library

It's been several months since I've posted here, and frankly little has changed except for the size of our image library. The university has more than 205,000 photos representing some 1.75tb of space on our network. Twenty people can access the library, most on Macs. But several using Windows 7.

We've had no major failures or issues accessing the library, although I still continue to have the occasional error message when trying to modify the metadata on images. Usually it just affects one or two photos, though. I hav no hard science to back up this next claim but my PC seems to be more sluggish in accessing the library than my Mac. Go figure.

Anyway, search speed is always the key variable and typically it's going to be slower the more files you have and the more spread out the network (we also use a DFS to ease the burden on our infrastructure).

Still, I've seen no unusual anomalies in search results; they seem accurate across most machines.

So far, so good.