View/preview giant .psb files

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knew of a good way or an alternative browser maybe to view/preview giant sized .psb files?
I am now working on files from 5 - 20 GB each, 30 - 50,000 pixels, and am stuck using Bridge to go thru them, which takes forever to create thumbnails, and is often unreliable, as every now and then Bridge will just refuse to create a thumbnail for a certain image or 2 and drives me crazy.
Any suggestions? Am currently using CS3.
Yes I know this is an older version, I just wish there was a more efficient way to preview large files. PS obviously generates a flattened image preview every time u save, but the previews Bridge uses are fairly low res to my eye, yet it still takes ridiculously long to load each one, which I dont understand if during the save that preview image should be 'in' the file anyway.
There's got to be a better way to work with giant files.
Any tricks you power users know maybe?
thanks!

Noel Carboni wrote:
Do you know whether the PSB codec can be installed separately from the PSD codec
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Not as far as I know, Noel. If I recall correctly, a single installer runs, without offering any options.
I have both the Ardfry codec and the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack installed. I have yet to figure out how to tell which one of the two PSD codecs is in play when I am viewing PSD previews, nor how to specify which of the two codecs I want the system to use. I am not experiencing any problems with the two PSD codecs installed though, so they appear to play nicely together.
On a side note, Ardfry provides a free plug-in for Directory Opus which adds support for their codec, enabling viewing and thumbnail generation of PSD/PSB within that excellent file explorer.
- David
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