backing up ratings in Adobe Bridge CS3

hello everyone, for the first time I now need to use the ratings and reject ratings in Adobe Bridge CS3. I did my first bar-mitfiz as a second shooter yesterday and took 400 shots. my question is, how safe is the ratings system on Adobe bridge from computer problems? my photos are saved on an external hard drive but are the ratings saved along with the photos or on my main C drive in Application Data or something like that? im using windows

I have CS2 not CS3 but this should be the same for both. Set your metadata preferences to use a distributed cache rather than the default centralized cache. That way all the xmp files are in the same folder as the images.

If you're just starting a rating and label system you should get "The DAM Book" by Peter Krough it covers just about every aspect of Digital Asset Management.

Ed