Content and preview windows showing different images

[Richard Davis]

Has anyone else seen this one?

I'm running Bridge CS3 2.1.1.9 on Windows XP SP2.  My local hard drive ran out of space so I trawled around and located two very large cache files, one for Bridge and one for Camera Raw, even though my settings are to distribute the cache.  I followed Adobe's directions and purged these caches, recovering over 20Gb of hard drive space.

Now I'm processing some images I took during the week and for one set, for several images in the set, when I highlight an image in the content pane I get a completely different and unrelated image taken over a year ago in the preview pane.  When I open the image up in Camera Raw, I get the image from the content pane.

I'm trying to figure out how these images have become cross linked in Bridge between the content and preview panes - and also how to correct this - it's difficult to rate an image when the preview is from an image completely unrelated to the corrresponding thumbnail.

Richard.

www.rkndproductions.com

[rcannonp]

I had this pop up a few weeks ago. The solution was to turn off High Quality Previews and then manually delete the Bridge cache(not purge the cache inside Bridge). The problems that I was having were on a Mac, though. You may also want to check the Adobe Bridge for Windows forum.


–Cannon.

[Richard Davis]

Thanks Cannon.

I do have high quality previews turned on.  I did a CTRL+alt+Shift on starting Bridge to purge the cache, purged the cache from the preferences and deleted the cache in the folder and rebooted but still had the issue.  I noticed that I didn't have to wait for the thimbnails to regenerate so either the cache wasn't fully purged or I'm wondering if a performance utility has stashed another cache somewhere else.

As an IIpro user I went back to the drop folder copy made when I downloaded the card and I didn't have the problem with that image set so I made another copy of those files, deleted the problem files and, at present, I don't have the issue any more.

thanks again for responding,

Richard.

www.rkndproductions.com

[rcannonp]

It seems like it took me a couple of attempts to finally get rid of the issue. I think that manually deleting every type of Bridge cache file after turning of HQ previews and quitting Bridge was the trick. The purge cache commands in Bridge didn't help.

It's stuff like this that has me trying out Expression Media as a Bridge replacement.

–Cannon