Forcing Thumbnails to Rebuild in Bridge CS4

July 10, 2009 by Ben Long · 1 Comment
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If you’ve read this, then you already know that I’m a big fan of Adobe Bridge CS4. It has become my default workflow tool, and is now where I begin all of my post-production work. Like any piece of software, Bridge isn’t perfect, and there are some features I’d love to see in Bridge CS5, such as a histogram display within Bridge, the ability to export Collections and Smart Collections. And, like any piece of software, Bridge also has some bugs. One of the ones that bites me from time to time is Bridge’s occasional refusal to render thumbnails for some raw files. I haven’t found any official workaround for this bug (and maybe I’m the only one who’s having it, though I have experienced it on several different machines) but there is a quick and easy fix for the problem.

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