No Preview on RAW files

I'm running a MAC, OS X 10.8 with Photoshop Elements version 10 and Adobe Bridge CS4
I've just go myself a new Olympus OM-D5 camera. Very nice! One small problem though. The RAW files (*.ORF) don't show up as thumbs in the preview. The RAW convertor to extract them into Elements seems to be working fine. But I'd like to have the preview in Bridge working as well. My Cannon and Sony RAW files work fine in preview.
Any thoughts?
Jeroen

Adobe Camera Raw FAQ: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/311515
Adobe Camera Raw supported cameras: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/camera-raw-plug-supported-cameras.html

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Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
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What I find frustrating is:
1. Raw previews look like crap compared to the file itself.
2. Its possible to generate decent previews by a complicated purging-process.
I can imagine you are frustrated.
There are two differences on my set up so I can't check, first I use a Mac and you are on Windows and I use Canon and you Nikon.
However it should not result in this much visible flaws in the preview.
There can be a lot of cache files but Camera Raw Cache is something completely different then Bridge Cache.
Camera Raw is a .dat file and contains some info from the raw settings and probably other stuff that I can't find, it states being a video file but you can't play them.
Bridge cache are jpeg files that you can view, even without Bridge, for example they can be opened in PS itself without problems.
If you have set to build all at 100% then it will generate jpeg files in the original size at a high quality jpeg setting.
As said, I have a Mac but Yammer or Curt can provide you with the correct path to find the Bridge Cache folder yourself.
On my System this is in the user Library / caches/ Adobe/ Bridge CS6 and inhere is a folder called cache. This folder contains 4 folders.
- 256 : contains the thumbnails, very small files (in the range of 10 to 50 kb)
- 1024 : contains the HQ previews, relatively large files (500 KB to 3 MB, depending on the files itself)
- data : a text file containing all sorts of info, don't know what exactly but is a text file that also can grow to several 100 MB
- Full : in here are the 100 % previews settled and they can grow to huge proportions ( around 10 MB for 18 MP files, depending on file size and content etc)
If you have set to keep 100 % previews in Bridge prefs this last folder (full) will be taking a lot of space on your disk
If you also have set to export cache to folder it creates same size (hidden) files with this cache in the folder itself.
I never understood the need for export cache to folders for several reasons, first and most important, I had a longstanding bug preventing me from doing so (error message about overwriting a CacheT file) but also each version of Bridge has a different Cache format and you can't read older cache files. Also reading the cache file (especially when on DVD etc) takes a very long time. For purpose of needing to view archived files on external devices you better select the 'Prefer Embedded' option, works faster ten reading earlier exported cache.
Not sure how you did purge the Bridge Cache but in your case I would Quit Bridge and find the equivalent Cache folder on Windows (Yammer, Curt?).
manual delete this Cache folder with all its content and restart Bridge.
This provides you with a new, fresh but very empty cache file. You need to recache the lot for the previews.
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Purging the cache through the Tools menu in Bridge is necessary whenever you have files for which the cache was built before you updated ACR. It's standard procedure. Read the FAQs at the Adobe Camera Raw forum.
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You still haven't told us where you installed the new ACR plug-in and what you did with the old one. Please post a screen shot or describe the path to the install folder in minute detail.

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Sorry, the original post has been upset by me trying to link to an image
http://andybarton.com/preview.jpg
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The screenshot you delivered is from the wrong library, however, this same library (the one on system level) also is the location where you should be able to view the correct version of your ACR plugin. The path: library (same as per your screenshot)/Application support/ Adobe/ Plug ins/ CS6/ File Formats. inhere should be only one version of Camera Raw (called: "Camera Raw.plugin") and this should show version 8.3 (141).
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Anyway, if you have only one ACR (8.3) installed in the above mentioned path then you might want to try to delete the Bridge plist file and Bridge cache file manually.
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Sorry to trouble you but this has never happened before so I need help.
I loaded 300 photos into LR 5.7
I deleted 200 of them.
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I note that my D750 raw images need update 6.01 in Yosemite OS. Check this site- OS X Yosemite: Supported digital camera RAW formats - Apple Support
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In Irfanview...
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1/ Adobe Bridge should be possible to open without administrator issue.
By default it does, something seems wrong with your install
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1/ Adobe Bridge should be possible to open without administrator issue.
By default it does, something seems wrong with your install
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3/i only succeed in openening Bridge descently , so with ableing to see RAW files , WHEN i go to c:/progamfiles/Adobe/AdobeBridhecc/Bridge.exe
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Here you have lost me. As a Mac user I'm afraid I don't know nor understand anything about .exe, I download the .dmg file for an application which then automatically opens and I just click on the install icon, provide admin password and serial number once and then start using it without bothering about install ever again

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