Bridge CS6 constantly re-caching?

In Bridge CS6 (64bit on Windows 7) I noticed that each time I visit a folder I see "activity" in the lower left corner of the window. I see the spinning circle, and reports that tumbnails and previews are being extracted.
This happens on folders that have been previously visited and fully cached. In fact, it happens every time you return to the Bridge window after using a different window (Explorer, Browser, etc.), even though Bridge was left pointing at the same folder. If you use Bridge to open a file in Photoshop and then return to Bridge, re-caching occurs.
So I did some testing and found the cause. It appears that Bridge will constantly re-cache layered tif files. Flat tif files, DNG files, CR2 files, jpegs are not re-cached. Strangely, layered PSD files are not re-cached either. Only layered tif files. And more strangely, not all layered tif files, but most. I haven't figured out that pattern yet. Re-caching of layered tif files occurs regardless of whether they are 8bit or 16bit, compressed or not compressed.
This is a little bothersome when you have folders with a large number of layered tif files. The constant re-caching process can take a lot of time, and is using up CPU and I/O bandwidth for no apparent reason. It's generating the same cache thumbnails over and over, both the 1024 and 256 versions.
I can't find any setting within Bridge that controls this (make it stop). So, questions are:
1. Why is this? Is it a feature or a bug?
2. Any way to make it stop?
3. Can others verify it happens on their system (Windows or Mac)?

I suspect it may be unintentional, but short of being a real bug.
If it worked before in CS5 it well might be qualified as a bug. Anyway, since you discovered this behavior you should report it as bug
Personally I only use tiff for saving in ACR when needed for other applications that can't handle DNG and PSD very well.
Having a bunch of tiffs for this purpose (did not try create layer sin them) enabling and disabling tiff support in Camera Raw prefs starts the caching on my machine for those files. So be prepared on recaching (although not going on, just until finished) when switching the support on and off!
When it comes to layers I only use PSD, in fact, I save every file as PSD as basis for archive. Not saying Tiff is disappearing but it is not a format as popular as it used to be in the early days, especially when it comes to layers
And if you have enabled tiff support and open them in ACR with choosing the option to open as Smart Object they can be saved in a layered file as PSD. As long as they are a Smart Object they can get back to ACR

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My new Bridge CC on Win 7 is repeatedly re-caching thumbnails on some folders. Not all folders, just some, and that is my mystery. I have been doing extensive tests and yet can't determine what it is about some folders or their contents that cause a constant re-cache.
Would like to know if anyone else is seeing a re-caching problem with Bridge CC, and if you have a clue why?
I have tried all the usual suspects, short of a complete re-install. I've updated, I've trashed preferences, I've tried many different image folders and contents. I've set my cache size to the max and put it on a disk with tons of room. I've completely deleted the cache and started over. Can't find any rhyme or reason.
This problem is similar to one I and several other people had with CS6 many months ago.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1024624?start=0&tstart=0
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1007560
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But my current CC Bridge cache problem is not the same. Layered TIFs are definitely not the cause. It appears to happen only on folders with raw files, but not all of them. It does not happen on different folders containing tif or jpeg versions of the same files. Something is making Bridge think the files in a folder have changed when, in fact, they have not.

I have less sympathy. The bug has been documented for several years, and no one seems to have taken ownership of the problem. As it only affects Bridge, it appears to automatically become very low priority. The only reason the first bug was fixed was because I isolated the cause and then badgered Adobe. So, I reckon the only way to get the second bug fixed is if us users can find a way to recreate the symptoms reliably.
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I've spent several hours trying to diagnose the criteria which triggers the bug. The ONLY thing which seemed to help was to untick the "Enable Lens Profile Corrections" box. It killed the repeats dead on my system. My guess is that this bug is more likely to affect people to change Camera Raw defaults to enable this feature and process most or all of their images, as they will have a very high percentage of thumbnails subject to LPCs in every folder. Like the 6.1 bug, the 7.3 bug probably needs some other condition to trigger the cache discrepancy which causes the regeneration.
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You must have a Mac. Try this.
Quit Bridge, from user library (NOT system and root library) preferences folder find and delete the com.adobe.bridge5.plist file manual. Do this also in same user library caches folder (Caches/Adobe/Bridge CS6) and inhere find and the folder called 'cache' and drag it to the trash.
restart Bridge holding down option key and choose reset preferences, then try again.

Bridge CC cache not compatible with bridge CS6

Starting the Photoshop CC adventure. First install was Bridge. First test was to see if the Bridge CC cache is compatible with Bridge CS6 cache. First result is NO.
Test method:
1. Set the Bridge CC cache location to the same folder I use for CS6, which contains 10+ gigs of thumbs for my library.
2. Navigated Bridge CC to a sub-folder with about 30 images, see Bridge CC re-do the thumb extractions.
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4. Close Bridge CS6, launch Bridge CC, still pointing to the same sub-folder, see it re-do thumb extractions again.
5. Repeat steps 3&4, always with same result, a redundant re-generation of thumbs.
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The actual thumbnail files in the cache are the same. But something happens in the index files (data/store) to make each version think it does not have thumbnails, so it re-generates them. IOW, when Bridge CC looks at the cache last used by Bridge CS6 it says "I have not been here, must re-cache", and visa-versa.
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Not much surprise here. The same was true for CS5 vs. CS6.

Not much surprise here. The same was true for CS5 vs. CS6.
Then it also should not be a surprise for you that this behavior already started in the Filebrowser (Bridge predecessor that came with CS1 and by far the most stable and fast cache ever in the history of Bridge) and has not changed since. Nor is it likely it will chance in the future.
Hence my advice to not use Bridge for long term DAM because you need to recache the lot every new version...

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Reset Preferences
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