FAT32 formatting for 500 GB Seagate external hard drive using Windows Vista

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  Date: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 06:45:55-0700

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  Topic: Why I can't do a search in my external hard drive using Adobe Bridge CS6?

  Re: Why I can not do a search in my external hard drive using Adobe Bridge CS6?

  created by Curt Y in the General Discussion of bridge - see complete discussion

  You can search for an external drive if the operating system permissions are OK.  Bridge, however, will not look on different drives.

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