Bridge CS3 shows no thumbnails??

Adobe Bridge CS3 has been working fine for quite a while. I have been having
some problems with my System (C) drive, where it and Photoshop CS3 are
installed.
I swapped out the C drive, and restored an image of the drive, and most
items are working OK. But I'm guessing that Bridge may have suffered some
"corruption", prior to when the image was made.
When I open Bridge CS3, it opens normally. with the files listed on the
lower left, but there are no thumbnails visilbe for any images. Momentarily,
I did see some for one folder, but now they are all not showing anyting at
all in the thumbnail or individual window on screen.
Just for kicks, I double clicked in the middle of where the thumbnails
should be, and an image then opened in Photoshop. So they appear to be
invisible, but present.
Any suggestions here? Is repair install needed, or is there a setting
somewhere that has gotten messed up, that can be simply fixed??
Ron Hisch

Hi John, I just took a look at my settings now in Bridge CS3. That box is not currently checked, and the Bridge Cache files are no longer in the associated folders. Apparently this was not the case prior to my problems. I don't remember ever making a choice here. The centralized cache obviously makes it easier to purge when problems come up. Are there any negative aspects of using the centralized cache? What I cannot understand is how essentially all the cache information in a hundred folders in my image tree on my D drive suddenly all became corrupted at the same time. There must have been something else on the C drive that caused this. In recent days, I was in the process of replacing my C drive due to strange happenings, and restoring an image of that drive to the new drive. I would have to beleive that on C drive in a Brdige folder somewhere, there was a "master" controlling file or ?? that worked with the cache, and it got messed up. Ron "John Joslin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. If the option to "Automatically Export Caches To Folders When Possible" is checked in Bridge Preferences (as Ron apparently did) I can't imagine that the purge can be done system wide with one click. I have always used a centralised cache, for this and other reasons.

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