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I'm sure I read that it happens with DNG too.
I just glanced at the forum thread itself but to my shock it shows to contain already 8 pages so I'm not contradicting you in this one…
But then again, to me it seemed related to the XMP sidecar files and DNG don't have them and the info is like other filetypes just written in the files itself instead of that 'dreadful' piece of info trying to keep up speed with it's beholder.
Conclusion, if it is not XMP side car files related then it seems Windows related, if so then you know what to do next…. 
Omke Oudeman wrote:
Conclusion, if it is not XMP side car files related then it seems Windows related, if so then you know what to do next….
Well, I'm still waiting for this rather busy Adobe engineer to push this forwards, and come back to us with a progress report, although I assume he's not on the Bridge team, as they can't be very busy, what with there only being a few updates over the last five years. 
Only problem with moving to Mac is I'd have to spend a fortune, relearn how to use a computer, replace all my applications with Mac versions, and spend lots of time doing all this—although I could use the time to grow a pony tail.
Only problem with moving to Mac is I'd have to spend a fortune, relearn how to use a computer, replace all my applications with Mac versions,
Here I can contradict you (albeit not about fortune for a new Mac - a second hand Mac is also an option- , but good stuff needs to be paid for…), with your specialized knowledge about Windows the Mac should be a piece of cake and very easy to use for you.
The Adobe creative cloud is again coming to the rescue here, membership gives you the option to use it on both platforms. For instance a PC at work and a Mac at home is possible
and spend lots of time doing all this—although I could use the time to grow a pony tail.
The time you need to get familiar with the Mac is not even enough to grow a faint start of a beard so you have to find some other reasons (uninstall and dismantle your Windows machine perhaps…) to reach the length of what might be called a pony tail
I'll bet that the assigned Bridge engineer is either a newbie or assigned only part time to Bridge.
If you mean SG on this forum I can tell you that you are totally wrong. Steve is a well respected, highly educated and very hard working Adobe engineer whom somehow finds the time in his private life to answer to this public forum
That said, thanks for backing up on the Mac Success story, and to add more to the pain, I never could get used to Nikon and stick with Canon :-0
or is forces being marshaled for getting bugs from CS7 out of the way?
I would place my bets on this for a reason
The only thing about Nikon I hated was the focus spiral is reversed from the rest of the world! With auto focus so what, but in the film world switching from Hasselblad or Leica to Nikon, yikes! I ultimately abandoned Nikon for Olympus OM-1.
That reverse was also for aperture on the lenses in the analog days. I have worked at a newspaper for a few years and had to use a Nikon FM and a Nikon F2 while having very nice Minolta camera's of my own at that days (early eighties, been a while…). And since then I could never get used to the correct way of changing focus and aperture again. Come to think of it, I still do hate Nikon for that
There are a at least couple of Mac users with the problem on the feedback website topic.
You know I was only joking…
However I still can't reproduce this problem nor have experienced it. What I have found was that whenever you start working with large numbers Bridge tends to slow down very much and starts creating unexpected problems. I have set my border at a max of 5000 files per folder (that is DNG from 18 and 21 MP dSLR) and this did speed up my workflow considerably.
Having SSD and 32 GB RAM also helps a lot I have to say.
And I have the impression you do use Bridge somewhat as a DAM for your complete collection regarding the numbers you gave in the Feedback thread. I never made a secret that to my opinion Bridge is not capable for use as archive with large numbers.
I see Bridge as a good pre process application (that is for images) and use it also with a bit of other stuff but not very much other then images. I regularly dump the complete cache and start over, seldom have more then 15 K of files in total cached.
Waiting for a fix to this acknowledged problem seems something not to hold your breath for, so it might be time to look at other options.
Canto Cumulus Single user does a far better job for my archive (fast caching, light speed search results, catalogs up to 100K of files, search in combined catalogs, etc etc), but Canto is pretty lousy in the tasks I use Bridge for. The right application for the right job, there is still no 'one size fits all' and there probably never will be one either…
I still think it's a very good application which could be even better if Adobe cared more.
In this we couldn't agree more, but as it proved we don't want to hold our breath for this either…
A quick glance at history:
CS - presented the file browser, looked very promising and until today still had the best handling of cache albeit it to less options (only 1 flag rating possible if I seem to recall correct).
CS2 - Bridge was born, again very very promising but all cached folders from file browser could be dumped because Bridge had a different cache format.
CS3 - Bridge's worst version ever, very unstable, lot's of problems with cache and again a new cache format.
CS4 - Bridge becoming stable and faster, AOM was added and PS Contact Sheet II was dumped, AOM turned out to be a winner but did need improvement, again a new cache format.
CS5 - Bridge again a bit more stable and a bit faster but no significant changes apart from being presented with again a new cache format.
CS6 - Bridge has been transformed to 64 bit, instead of taking this opportunity to revitalize the lot and add the most wanted options and improvement it turned out to be a copy of CS5 with again no significant improvement and again a different cache format. For some odd reason (people start yelling for getting old and outdated options back instead of yelling for improvement of the new AOM) the old Contact Sheet II has returned. Rewritten for CS6 but like the 64 bit transformation this opportunity was not taken to add better and more options to customize contact sheets.
CS7 - ??? the big question, will Adobe acknowledge the powers Bridge has to offer and start treating it is as the unmissable application it can be for the whole Adobe Creative Suite or are we again disappointed with lack of attention???
I really would like to keep on using Bridge but as a Photographer I'm fat up with the poor options Adobe offers for Bridge to import my files, I have to use Photodownloader (still 32 bit) . Yes it works for me but it hasn't changed or improved from version 1, it still is version 1 AFAIK and having a lousy thumb window and very slow performance I think it is about time this will be improved.
For the long run the ever changing cache format proved to be unusable for real use of DAM. Or you might like to recache your collection again and again?
Sorry for again getting a bit off topic but I'm real disappointed in how things are (not) going. 
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