Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: DanPatrick on July 22, 2008, 09:33:24 pm
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I run PS3 and Bridge on an XP Pro system w/2GB of ram. Recently, quite suddenly, I can't see my thumbnails in Bridge. Well, most of them.
I have many, many folders and they are chronological. I have Raw image files in one major directory, images (tiff, JPEG, etc.) in another.
I can see almost none of the JPEGS and TIFFS in the right panel (I have, say, 3/4 of the screen as a preview or metadata space, then one column of thumbs on the right). They're there (I can see them in Windows Explorer) and I can click on the blank space and that frame will show in Preview or if I click twice, open in PhotoShop. And sometimes I can see thumbs for a moment if I move the scroll bar up and down quickly. Now, here's the strange part. I can see the JPEGS and TIFFS of shots I've made recently.
With the Raw files, it's pretty much the same, though some directories show up, I don't know why. Go figure.
I've cleared the cache several times and I've even reinstalled. Still, no thumbs. Anyone out there have a similar experience or an idea of what the heck is happening?
HELP! Dan
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Hmmm.
I have a vaguely similar problem. Using my Windows Vista laptop on a photo trip to Maine last week, I discovered to my chagrin that raw files from my (newish) Eos-1Ds III were displayed in Bridge CS3 only as generic icons, making it impossible to edit. Raw files from the mk II and original 1Ds show up just fine. I downloaded the latest version of Adobe raw converter and this permitted me to open the files in Photoshop, but no luck seeing any thumbnails. Placing a copy of the Adobe raw converter file in Bridge's plug-in folders didn't help. Clearing and refreshing the cache did nothing.
I downloaded a trial copy of Lightroom just to get access to the images for editing, but I must admit that I hate Lightroom's way of working. Bridge still works fine on my home desktop with thumbnails displaying properly.
Is there some obscure setting I'm missing here? I wasn't daring enough to reinstall all of Photoshop while in Maine, because if it hung up during installation I was screwed. That's my next move, but I'd like to avoid it if possible.
Any ideas out there?
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Ah, I forgot to mention, I took some new photos with a 40D & 20D. Weird, I can see those thumbnails just fine. It's just the older ones - which were visible until some point about two or three weeks back - not sure, exactly. I'm stumped.
Dan