I am a beginning Photoshop User (CS5 with MacBook Pro OSX 10.5.8).
The majority of my photography images are stored on an external hard drive with 512 GB of excess capacity.
I have been dragging files from the external drive onto the PICTURES folder of my laptop so that I can access them through Adobe Bridge CS5.
The problem now is that they have been bloating the hard drive on my laptop. The laptop hard drive has a capacity of 186 GB with only 1.13 GB now Available.
How do I use Bridge without running into storage capacity issues?
Where does the PICTURES folder store these files?
Is there a way to point Adobe Bridge to a storage folder on my external hard drive?
How should I manage a growing list of images without running into capacity issues?