CS5 bridge Cache problems

[annall@iafrica.com]

I have a folder that contains all my photos - with in that there are about 200 sub folders and some of those have sub folders.

My photos all have key words and I use key word search all the time to find specific photographs.

I keep getting the Message
"Bridge encountered a problem and is unable to read the cache. Please try purging the central cache in the cache preferences to correct the situation"

I also get "Bridge is running out of memorey - restart bridge"

When I first up load photographs from my camera - I use slide show in Bridge to view them - deleting bad ones and giving star ratings to the good ones.

If I delete the central cache as suggested - I can no longer search on keywords until I have "opened" all the sub-folders and wait until bridge rebuilds the cache for each folder - it takes hours.

Are there settings I should be changing to solve this problem or should I bite the bullet and purchase Light room?

[OldBoy]

It shouldn't make any difference to your search for keywords by purging your cache, as all that does is stores thumbnails to your photos. When you open a folder with photos in, then the thumbnails are displayed straight away rather than waiting a few seconds. When you put a new card of photos into your PC, then Bridge has to build a thumbnail view of all your photos, which only takes a few seconds. By purging your central catch it just increases the time for thumbnails to display when you open on of those folders.

Open Bridge, select File, Preferences and click on the Cache option and click the Purge Cache. As you open folders with photos in Bridge, then it will rebuild the thumbnail cache.

[annall@iafrica.com]

Thanks for the reply - in the past if I purged cache - then any search I did - returned no items.

Even if I was searching in the folder that was currently open - I could select by ticking the keword in the left panel - but if I did a keyword search by clicking on the keyword in the panel on the right, right clicking and selecting find - it would not find anything - until I opened each folder and sub folder in turn and waiting till it redid all the thumnail extrtactions.

Adobe sent a reply telling me to hold down control while starting Bridge and resetting all the preferences, then installing the latest update CS5 4.0.4

It now seems to be searchng when I use the find from the right side keywords panel - it is just taking forever!

If this does not work I will get back to adobe again and post any further fixes

DO you use lightroom ? is it worth trying it out - ?

[OldBoy]

No don't use lightroom but I have a copy.

Don't understand how keywording is linked to the thumbnail image? As keywording should be searching the metadata unless, Adobe have attached it to the thumbnail.

Metadata is stored in a sidecar file in CS3, but not sure about CS5.

[blech]

Originally Posted by OldBoy

Don't understand how keywording is linked to the thumbnail image? As keywording should be searching the metadata unless, Adobe have attached it to the thumbnail.

That's what I was thinking as well. But then again I use ACR on a daily basis and I tend to purge my cache quite a lot and I have no problems whatsoever with keywording afterwards