Indesign Preview Issues

Has anyone had a similar problem to the one we are encountering.
We use a pdf workflow and we export to press pdf directly from the book feature in InDesign CS6. The export seems to go through with no issues, however after the export is complete, InDesign then attempts to generate a preview which can then take up to 30 - 40 minutes to process.
I'm aware of the preview preferences within InDesign, however when we were on CS5 this didn't happen. I am trying to find out whether this is peculiar to the CS6 version & if so is there a workaround without turning off the preview preference?
Any help would be appreciated.

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