Bridge Doesn't Find Files

"Before," say a few months ago, I used the Bridge to search all my files. It worked wonderful. Now, and I don't know why, but the bridge is not finding what Explorer can find. Is it corrupted? How do I fix it? I orginally downloaded my copy of Photoshop CS5 Extended about five or six years ago. Does it need a reinstall if it's acting up? I'm super sad because I work with huge amounts of data 60,000 images, and it was a good way to drill down certain files. Now I'm using Picassa to find what I need, but really want the Bridge to work. I've searched the Internet, but nowadays, it's getting harder to find anything relevant to a problem. Thanks for your help.

Files have to be indexed to be searched. If you have your cache threashold set too low as newer thummbnails are indexed the older ones are erased.

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