Why No Tif Thumbnails?

I've just switched from using Lightroom for cataloguing my photos to Bridge (via Photoshop ES5). Incoporating the same Windows 7 "My Pictures" contents, I get thumbnails in Bridge for my RAW files but not for my TIF files. Has anyone any explanation or advice for me? Thanks, Jim

Since you just set it up you may have something contaminated in the preference file.
Hold down the Ctrl key and start Bridge, you should get a reset window with 3 options. This will reset everything to factory defaults.
If that does not work, do all folders exhibit the same problem? It may be that you have a contaminated tiff, or the name structure is incorrect. When you use PS to save a new tiff those errors are corrected.

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In original post you said you were running Win XP, so it that home computer and work is Win7?
Work PC = Win XP, Photoshop CS5, Dual-core processor and 4 GB RAM. Home PC = Win7, Photoshop 5.0, Quad-core processor and 4GB RAM. Both are 32-bit OS. I cropped and saved 20 of these TIFs on the home Win7 machine, and had no problems with black images at any time. I tested those same TIFs on a work machine that is identical to my Win XP work machine, and had lots of problems with them turning black. This suggests that the OS, video card and/or CPU are causing trouble on the work machine, not necessarily the RAM. It doens't seem to be a problem unique to my PC, but rather to all the PCs that are just like my PC (our organization buys in bulk, and we all have identical PC setups).
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I have 62GB out of 150GB free on C drive, but it’s fragmented. Will try defragmenting to see if that helps. I think, with my 32-bit Win XP, I am limited to 4GB, right? Does a 64-bit system have that much improvement over 32-bit?
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On the work PC that is causing me trouble, graphics card= ATI Radeon HD 3450.
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That will help with what, exactly? Will that help avoid corrupted files? It seems like the problem lies in Photoshop, not necessarily with Bridge.
In photoshop go the edit/kpreferences/file handling and make sure Open GL is not checked.
It was checked. I unchecked it, but still had images turning black on me when I cropped and saved them.
Your files are still OK, they only show not good in Bridge? or are they all damaged?
~15% of cropped scan tifs open mostly black in PS and Windows Explorer, and open mostly black in Bridge full-screen preview also. The other 85% look OK in all programs. The 15% initially look OK as thumbnails in Bridge, but after ~30 min, or if I try to open them in PS or full-screen preview, they turn mostly black. It would appear to me that those 15% of cropped scan files are corrupt, and perhaps only look OK in Bridge initially because Bridge is accessing some embedded low-resolution preview, then later updating the preview using the actual image file, but I’m not sure on that last point.
You state to have PS 12.0.3 in, while I'm on a Mac I have 12.0.4 installed s the latest so first try a software update.
That’s a pretty involved process with our IT dept. I don’t have Admin privileges to do that, but I’ll raise the issue.
Also check your PS performance settings. If you have only 4 GB RAM installed and you did point PS to more then the default and having some other applications open you will become soon short of RAM. (Bridge pointed to that already)
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This same code I have asked about before, and got excelent help, but this is a different problem so I just start a new thread.
This is a code that open a XML file, containing a small list of images, and place them as thumbs on the page.
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Never mind! I finally managed to see what to do. Thanks for the help
package {
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