Lens correction doesn't work in CS5 Bridge

Question

Lens Correction in Bridge isn't working properly for me.
I ran the Lens Correction tool in Bridge and selected "Match best profile" from the profile section.
The script ran and saved the new files in the proper folder, but didn't produce any lens correction results. I double-checked this by creating a highly distorted lens profile and running the script with that, but it didn't produce any results either. It seems the Lens Correction tool, when accessed through Bridge, isn't working. It does, however, work great when used in Photoshop... just not in Bridge where you can apply it to multiple files.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Judging from the ancient dialog screen, I'd bet that this feature doesn't get used much.

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Has anyone had any experience with this? Judging from the ancient dialog screen, I'd bet that this feature doesn't get used much.
Your last remark about popular usage seems to be spot on, never even tried it myself. It seems one of the many needless and bad working options in Bridge that should have been dealt with long time ago but as we all know by now Bridge is neglected by Adobe bean counters and we still are waiting for the miracle...
Tried your route in Bridge CC (selecting a few files in Bridge / menu tools / Photoshop / Lens Correction) and run the scripts.
You are right, the files are saved in a separate 'results' folder with the same filename but nothing has changed other then instead having a locked background layer now the dreadful 'layer 0' assigned (dreadful because I have lots of actions working on the layer called 'background' and they refuse to work on 'layer 0', I have to built in a flatten layer command to change it again to background, but this is slightly Off Topic…)
And indeed,  the same files running in PS lens correction filter do have the correct result.
You can't use raw or DNG directly in the Bridge script because the result can only be saved as jpg, png, PSD and Tiff.
Meanwhile you could do the obvious and choose from two options:
- follow the ACR / Raw -DNG route (preferred because at the start of the process) where  you can select the raw files in filmstrip mode and with select all choose lens correction in ACR then hit OK or save or open).
- or in case of already converted or saved files create an action (which is nothing more then a recorded script but then very easy) yourself.
Just open 1 file in PS, then create a new action in the action panel with a proper name. It starts recording and will follow your steps. Apply lens correction with the wanted settings, then hit OK, use flatten layer to return to Background instead of Layer 0, hit save as (choose a proper location because all files will be saved here when running the action) and be sure to not touch or change the file name otherwise each new file will overwrite the previous with the same recorded file name, if you leave it untouched it saves the existing file name in a new location. hit close file and then stop the recording of the action.
Select a bunch of files in Bridge, choose menu tools / PS / Batch and select the action you want to apply and hit OK.  In case of 100 + files go for coffee, otherwise watch the magic happen…