What version of Bridge?

CS 6 was the most stable when it came to holding stacks but before it could lose them out of the blue. Never did get to know why, usually when switching to fast between window or something other to fast. I came to live with it and when it happened I started at the bottom o f the screen working my way up to restack them because normal they where left in the same order as before but only ungrouped from stacks.

To my knowledge there is no (at least no easy way to find) location where this info is stored in a visible way or to redo them, just bite the bullet and say a few nasty words to let the steam flow… :-)

I have to say that in the CS6 I have not had it very often so there seems to be a small improvement.

I use Win 7 and have never had a stack problem and I use quite a few stacks.   So perhaps an OS thing?

I think the stack info must be in some sidecar somewhere.

If that would be the case then try to check the option to show hidden files in the menu view and check if making a stack adds info to one of those files by selecting the sort order on modification date.

And if it comes down to professional asset management I fully agree with you that Stack and Pray is not the goal we should wish. But I also often state that Bridge is not a real DAM and for good asset management on a long term base you should use a dedicated DAM application.

Bridge has changed its cache format for almost every new cycle, some people never have trouble with Stacks, like Curt, and some on a regular base.

Deleting prefs and every now and the dump the complete cache seems to help a bit but there are still a lot of mysterious things happening under the hood of Bridge.

Personally I have Canto Cumulus single user for storing files in my archive, lightning fast search and highly customizable. But the things Bridge is good at (all that needs to be done before the files are finally processed) Cumulus is not so good, or even very bad.