Using Bridge as Image catalog

We are using Bridge to catalog our reference images and have run into a snag. When I was showing another person how to connect to our image library through Bridge and do a search, he did not get the same search results as I did, even though he was doing the same search in the same way. He only got a fraction of the images I got in response to the same search. I had him click on a directory which I knew contained other images that should have appeared and the images loaded into the main window. After that was done, then the images showed up in the search. So it was like the files won't appear in a search until they've been indexed in Bridge by loading them in the main window. I'm just guessing here.
Does anyone know of this issue and the best way to work with it? An image search doesn't do much good if you can't trust it to find all the right images, even ones that have been recently added by someone else.
Help!
thanks
Su

So it was like the files won't appear in a search until they've been indexed
in Bridge by loading them in the main window. I'm just guessing here.
Your guess is at good it gets!
Does anyone know of this issue and the best way to work with it? An image
search doesn't do much could if you can't trust it to find all the right
images, even ones that have been recently added by someone else.
Here is the tricky bit, it seems that indexing files like cache is user
specific. When using the export cache to folder option I don't believe this
also export the index but I'm not sure about that. But even exported cache
files need to be read first by other users to gain same speed and previews
when exported. Personal I can't use export cache to folders due to a
longstanding bug on my system. But then again, I also don't have the need
for that function.
As I'm a known big fan of Bridge the use of it as a Digital Asset Management
system for archive purpose is far from ideal if not unusable in the long
run.
To my opinion it is not suitable for this function due to the constant
change of used cache files throughout different version and still cache
handling is far from what it should be and we are not sure what they come up
with in next version (And I hope it is a completely other way that can be
used ).
The Image Browser that was the Bridge predecessor in PSCS1 was until today
the best in handling and exporting cache and yet we are in Bridge version
4...
They changed it for the better and albeit CS5 handles cache reasonable
stable I still dump the complete cache every know and then to start over.
Working with large amount of big DNG files as I use in my workflow combined
with HQ preview results in very large central cache files that often reach
40 GB in size.
To compare, for DAM I use Canto Cumulus single user. The cache size for over
50 K of developed files (my keepers) has a size of 1 GB. Search takes a
split second and building the catalog is light speed compared to building
cache and indexing when using Bridge.
There are some other DAM applications that do this job also much better then
Bridge, while on the other hand they aren't that good in sorting, rating,
renaming, metadata as Bridge is
But be aware that they are build for single user, if you want trustable
working over network you better start saving and look at a suitable
application for this that will mostly be build to be customized to your
situation. Canto Cumulus does so but as said, the single user version is
around 300 dollar while the network version starts about ten times that
price.

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