Problem:
Small teams working in local networks share tons of files with each others.
Its always a pain to use Bridge to find the files, tags, previews, comments, ratings and everything else that makes Bridge such a good thing.

The usual trick is to have local cache (in each folder), but then everyone on the team has to re-search the shared folders manually and frequently, to discover updated files, tags, ratings, etc.
Sometimes its slow, other times the files are locked, other times the sharer clears its cache.

It can become painful when the volume of assets at play goes over 4TB of data. We have tried CC cloud, but this volume of data makes it unusable.

Suggestion:
Maybe the metadata could be stored on cloud, but the assets accessible on the shared local network?

Each user of Bridge could have its own local folders, and special "Group folders" where they could collaborate, and each local system could be updated/synced with all the metadata, file preview and stored location.

This way, many files can still be on the local network, but the accessibility to them could be synced across the team members easily. This would mean they could search their local Bridge instance and get back all assets from the team easily.

I have my fingers crossed :)

If I have two Folders and both of them has the same Name (each of them are on another Location of course) and I would now centralize the two Folders in ONE Location, then I would move (or copy) the first Folder to the Location where the second Folder is located. So far so good.
But now Bridge Shows me a message like this: "The folder XY already exists. [Fix it automatically], [Replace], [Cancel]"
If the first Folder contains only 1 file and the second Folder lets say 5 files, if I choose "Replace", THE HOLE SECOND FOLDER WITH THE 5 FILES IN IT WOULD BE REPLACED! That's really poorly programmed!
If I do so in Windows Explorer, the second Folder would automatically supplemented with the files from the first Folder. That means the second Folder contains 6 files in the end, if there are no double file names.
That's smart and useful.
In Bridge if I choose "Fix it automatically", there will be and Folder "xy" and a Folder "xy1" in the end. That's poorly too.

That could be really well improved.
Maybe you could use the copy/move Features from Explorer? I don't know If you could use their API for this.
But if not, it would be really helpful if you could improve this experience.
Please look at all the possibilities from Windows Explorer, theese are really good.
Thanks a lot
Stefan