Bridge was always lacking in preview quality. Thumbnails and Previews were rough resamples, and full screen previews not necessarily representative, in terms of sharpness of original.
The last Bridge update seems to have tackled that to a large degree. There has clearly been a lot of work under the bonnet to improve the thumbnail/preview cache generation. I can't say I've noticed a big difference in full screen previews, but I don't want to come across as ungrateful!
Anyway. After the initial joy of finally working with sharper previews, I started to notice new problems...
Occasionally, thumbnails will stick on the embedded previews or generic icons. I'd have to purge the selection's cache to get it to work.
Occasonally, a whole folder will refuse to generate proper thumbnails. I'd have to select the whole folder for purge, or just close and reopen Bridge.
Occasionally, Bridge (Windows) would crash out completely, and fail to restart, unless I opened Bridge with a different folder.
I've already purged and regenerated the whole cache, and it hasn't fixed the problems.
I hope the Bridge development team get this fixed soon. My past experience is that Bridge bugs get fixed on a glacial timescale, but that was before the new team picked it up. Fingers crossed.
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