Bridge CS6 has lost its search index

[grwiffen]

I use Bridge CS6 on my pc and recently I lost the drive that held all my photos. I reinstalled from a backup, but since then, Bridge cannot search on the keywords.

The keywords are still in the XML files, with each photo, but it seems Bridge has lost the search index.

How can I get the search function working again, across the keywords of all my images.

I have approx. 250k images, so I would really like this function back as it has been extensively used over the past 5-6 years whilst building my image librabry.

Thanks you for your help.

Graham

[grwiffen]

Can anyone out there help on this one please? I am in need of support.

[Sahil.Chawla · Accepted solution]

Hi Grwiffen,

Please try the step mentioned below:-

Start Adobe Bridge and immediately press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS) until the Reset Settings dialog box appears. Select all three options--Reset Preferences, Reset Standard Workspaces, and Purge Entire Thumbnail Cache--and then click OK.

Regards,

Sahil

[grwiffen]

As a follow on update to this sitaution:

The only way I can get Bridge to read the keywords, is to manually navigate to each subdirectory, and let it extract the thumbnails.

This is a very slow and boris task. But after reading each file/extracting each thumbnail, it can search on the keywords.

My new question is :

Where does it store this index, or the info it needs to search? It must be different to the keywords, as they are simply in the xml files, with each picture. But to search, it seems to first need to read them.

Is there a search file that I can backup to stop this ever happening again?

Look forward to your input and support. Thanks. Graham