Tif files have generic icon in bridge

Hi,
I can see the proper icon in the finder os 10.9.2 but only the generic tif icon in bridge. PSD work fine.
these tifs were created in Lightroom 5
I tried logging in as a different user, no change.
thanks for the help.

Don't use Lightroom, but have heard that you can create several different versions of files, some not readable outside of LR. So check that out.

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