Viewing Swatches in Bridge for CS5

I have a fairly large number of swatches created in CS3 and CS4 and saved as .ASE files. In the older Bridge (v3.0.0.464), I could display my user library file and see the colors in each swatch. When I display my user library in the Bridge that installed with CS5 (v4.0.3.9), I can only see the .ase icon displayed for each swatch name. Is there any way I can display my swatch colors? Is there any add-on that could do this for me? I know I can take each swatch and create a small sample as an .ai file, but that'll be quite a job, and I'm hoping there is some easier way.

Hi,
If you remember your old post, I can say that today in Bridge CC it the same.
Eg Bridge is not able to show Ase files neither generate the thumbnail nor listing them as document's metadatas...
Really a pity.
Have you find any workaround?
Jean-Michel

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