That's a good point about Picassa being free. It certainly won't hurt to try.
As to why I don't like Bridge, it's kind of a sad story. This software is woefully underdocumented. It seems to be the neglected stepchild of Photoshop. When I had to do a clean install of my system (yes, weep for me), I tried to find out how to restore my keyword list and discovered that no one seems to know how to do it. It's not a simple process, apparently, but I wouldn't mind that if there was just some good documentation on how to do it. After weeks of working on it and getting help everywhere I could (including from Heather here), I seem to have it almost restored, but I have a feeling it will never be completely restored. I hoped Lightroom would do the trick, but LR doesn't catalog .png files. I hoped PSE 8 Organizer would do the trick but that software doesn't recognize the keywords already embedded in PS files (which I guess is because they're taking a whole new approach to the thing, but, I mean, really! Couldn't Adobe have made it compatible with their own organizing program?) I don't think ACDSee is going to let me do this without re-keywording approximately 100 gigs of files, which I am not nearly fanatic enough to do). So either I stick with Bridge and hope I don't have too much more to do to make things the way they used to be or I try Picassa or I. . . ? Got any ideas?
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