Bridge CS6 displays some jpg and tiff images overexposed--answer

This forum somehow makes it difficult to follow up on my own post. I wanted to thank the two people who provided thoughts--all good thoughts. The person talking about the different versions of ACR got me thinking, and I noticed the little circular icon on the upper right corner of the affected images. I right-mouse clicked those images and selected 'clear settings' and now those images show up as they should. Thanks, folks. But, Adobe forum, how come I had to create a new post just to say this?

You should see a reply button on the bottom of each post, if you are signed in. Look in upper right corner it should say Welcome ______ .
If you are responding by e-mail rather than from the forum I can not say as I have never used that form.

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Then, I select the rest of the images, go to Tools and choose Replace Metadata.
You have to choose 'Append Metadata' this adds the template to the already existing data instead of overwriting the already existing data.
And without knowing your needs or workflow, why don't you create a template (or some extra if you have specific difference you often use) with the most common and always used info (copyright etc) and add this to al your files.
Then when in Bridge choose the metadata panel with IPTC core section in view.
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I purged the cache.
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            int x = e.getX() - offset.x;
            int y = e.getY() - offset.y;
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