Find in Bridge

Hi All:
Im having a problem with the find command in Bridge. Basically it cant
seem to find anything. It cant even find a file in a folder that Im
looking at with Bridge. No mater what search criteria I select Bridge
reports that there is nothing to find. It used to work but at about the
time I installed a network attached drive it quit. Not at the exact time
but shortly after. The strange part is I have Photoshop CS3 on 2 computers,
a desktop and a laptop, and the find command has quit working on both
systems. It doesnt mater if Im searching on a local disk or on the
network disk, it find never finds anything anymore. Ive tried resting
preferences on both Bridge and Photoshop with no good results. Ive tried
just giving up on bridge, and using infaview as a replacement and it works
great as a viewer and selecting files to edit in Photoshop, but with out a
way to rate files and to find those rated files, its limiting and real
pain to search through 5000 photos. Both computers are running WinXP with
all the latest updates, and Bridge, ACR and CS3 also are updated. Both the
laptop and desktop all have 3gig of memory. Im considering the idea of a
reinstall but I dont really want to, so does anyone of an idea what to try
next? After reading what I wrote, it sure looks like some weird interaction
with the software for the network drive. Has anyone heard of such a thing?
John Passaneau

I am not a expert in anything, but seems to me if you have the same problem on both computers it is not how Bridge is installed, but how it is reading data, especially since it worked before. Perhaps it does not know where to find the cache file, it is full, or corrupted. But you said you reset default preferences, so that is strange. I will throw out another idea for a test.
I have Vista 32 OS and a moderate speed quad core chip. I have one folder that has 835 pictures of about 2.6 meg each. The thumbnails were built some time ago and I have the option "cache in folder" checked, and low quality thumbs. I clicked on the folder and it took less than 2 seconds for the spinning arrow to stop, showing it had loaded all thumbs. (It would take considerably longer to build it the first time, probably 1-2 min.)
Try this on your machine and see how long it takes to build thumbs on a significant number of files. Preferably do this with several folders in case your system is overwriting folder thumbs. Then close the program and restart your computer, open Bridge and click on folder and see how long it takes to load the thumbs.
If it is more than a couple of seconds it is probably rebuilding them and therefore they are not indexed for searching. If it loads promptly then I don't know what next.

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