CS3 Bridge Thumbnail Generation

When I start Bridge and go to an existing folder, the thumbnails (previously cropped and adjusted) are re-generated (updating percentage shown at bottom left on status line). Shouldn't Bridge use the thumbnails from the last time this folder was viewed and not have to re-generate them each time? Under Edit/Preferences/Thumbnails/When Creating Thumbnails Generate=High Quality Thumbnails. Does my Bridge cache size need to be increased?
Tim

If you use HQ thumbnails, and especially with 100% previews, if can take a lot of space. If space is limited the older thumbs are overwritten, so they have to be regenerated. I assume that this means they are no longer indexed and that would also affect the search function.
I would recommend you compact the cache regularly to get rid of orphan files. This can free up lots of space if you have not done it for awhile.
I have my cache on a partition of 40 gigs and I have about 19 gigs free. And yet when I visit a folder I have not seen for awhile it has to regenerate the thumbs, and I use quick thumbs. So I don't know how long the thumbs stay before being overwitten, or why they are being overwritten.

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Although HP does not support Photoshop, I was able to find something that might help; How to Convert RGB to CMYK in Photoshop.
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You can also use the following document to ensure the printer is not at fault; Fixing Print Quality Problems for the HP ENVY 5640, 5660, 7640 and Officejet 5740, 8040 e-All-in-One....
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