Bridge 5 continually recreates rebuilds cache

Because my primary hard drive was getting full, I recently changed the location for cache files to an alternate drive.  (I did this through Preferences>Cache>Location.)  I deleted the old cache, and checked to make sure the new cache was being generated where on the alternate drive.  But now after every time I close and then re-open Bridge, all the files in any given directory have to be rebuilt.  I have waited to make sure all the "extractions" have been completed in a directory before closing Bridge.  But when I later re-open Bridge, all those images have to be re-created.  Since I have hundreds of files in any given directory, it takes quite a while to generate all the previews, only to need to repeat the process next time around.
Is the change of cache directory related to this problem?  More generally, how do I get Bridge to stop re-creating previews each time I re-open a directory?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I did not mention this before as not sure it relates, but just just to make sure you are not confusing building cache with indexing.  If you do a search with include non-indexed files checked it will re-index your whole library even though it is already indxed.
I would definately use the edit/preference/compact cache to get rid of orphaned thumbnails.  If you have not done it for awhile it will really recduce the cache size.  The Mac forum recommends not to use the purge cache here, but use Tools/cache/purge cache for xxx folder.  This is probably better as the general purge will not purge cache in the distributed folders you are building.
Purging cache is recommended in case you have a contaminated thumb that is causing problems.
Also look at that thumbnails.  If there is any file that has an icon rather than an image look at name and file closely as it may be corrupt.  This only applies to file extentions that normally display thumbnails.
I use the fast option of embedded thumbnails so it takes a few seconds to rebuild 800 or so thumbnails.  Do not know how long it would take with HQ thumbs.

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