Bridge CS4 contents panel

All the thumbnails on right side of Bridge CS4 contents panel are cut off.
How do I get these thumbnails to appear in full?

That means that you also should refresh your preferences by restarting
Bridge holding down option key
sharon_t7 <[email protected]>
I had the same exact problem. I had to go up to windows, workspace, reset
standard worspaces. By just resetting the orther "reset workspace" didn't fix
the problem.

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