I've noticed in Adobe Bridge CS3 the occassional case where when bringing up a set of files from my Nikon D200 downloads that the wrong picture is displayed in the preview.

An example is where I was looking at images that were cataloged in Hawaii 07 the content window showed the correct pictures but when a couple were selected, a completely different picture from a portrait folder was displayed. When the thumbnail was double clicked the correct picture was brought up in Camera Raw and Photoshop.

That would mean that the correct image was in the file but that the wrong preview would display. It also wasn't a case of both pictures having the same image number because the portraits that came up were not even taken with the Nikon but were instead scanned images and stored as master files in a completely different folder.

Any ideas on what could cause this.

Michael

Yes, that is a well documented problem for lots of users - and I'm sure that will not make you feel better.
I have been having problems with Bridge CS3 since it was released and the only thing that helped was updating the NVIDIA Graphics Driver. And it helped alot!

You might want to try this path. Adobe, with Bridge CS3, may be using the GPU more than other programs and maybe a little too soon.
No doubt, using the GPU more is the future in image processing.

Anyway, it is worth the try to upgrade your driver.

I'm having exactly the same problem on leopard 10.5.4 - except its not occasional, its bloody constant and driving me mad. It brings stuff up from months ago! I have purged the cache but there must be something stored that I don't know about. All my drivers are the latest, as far as I can tell. Does anyone know of a fix?

edit: should add that I've searched this forum and found the advice about distributive cache but that made no difference.

It's called spurious thumbnails. If you uncheck the box for high-quality previews in Bridge's preferences, the issue will go away - but you'll have to live with soft previews. After changing the preferences, you'll need to purge the cache for each folder (one by one) via the Tools menu (not the preferences) for the new setting to take effect.