Photoshop batch unavailable in Bridge

Fo some reason, when I click Tools, Phototshop and then Batch are not an option anymore. Batch rename, version cue, etc. are available but Photoshop is not available.
Actions are selected in photoshop, so I'm not sure what is going on. Searched the web to no avail. Any ideas?

Actually it is CS2. Sorry for leaving that out. Can you point me
to the startup scripts (if applicable to CS2).
Thanks.
-Brian

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Is there a solution???
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Dave

I'm having the reverse problem. CS6 Bridge sees all the stuff under Tools/photoshop:
But CS5 Bridge does not. So looking into it a bit I see the scripts directory here:
c:/Users/harry/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Bridge CS5\Startup Scripts
Is empty.
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However here:
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There is nothing under the directory:
c:/Users/harry/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Bridge CS6\Startup Scripts\
and yet CS6 apparently sees scripts somewhere since it has a fair number of entries at Tools/photoshop, including the Batch image processor.
At at Preferences/Startup Scripts there is an extensive list of scripts listed.
Is there a way to make CS5 bridge See the scirpts for Photoshop CS6? Or at least to send a selected bunch of files to PS CS6 Image processor?

How come CS4 Bridge does not offer Photoshop batch operations?

I have had tons of problems with CS4 on my desktop PC but seem to have most of them resolved with a new video card and updated driver except this one. If it matters I'm running Windows XP service pack 3, 4gb of RAM of which 3.4 is available. It has an 2.67 GHz Intel Core2Duo cpu.
While in Bridge, under the "tools" menu, there no longer appears an option for batch operations such as I had with CS3. In CS3 it was the bottom option of all those listed. The only batch operation offered in CS4 is batch rename. I want to run Photoshop actions on multiple images selected in Bridge but cannot since this option is not being offered.
I have deleted preferences and rebuilt them several times, and uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop itself so many times that the CD is almost worn out. I have also upgraded CS4 to the latest upgrade on the Adobe site, 11.0.1.
I've done everything I can find to do but still not fixed. Anybody out there know the answer? This has not been a smooth transition and is very frustrating.
Thanks

OK, let's see how good you REALLY are...here's a new one. Well actually not
a new one, but it went away for so long I thought all the other things I've
done corrected it (CS4 update and video driver update). It's back with a
vengeance.
The brush tool stops working for no apparent reason. If I shut down
Photoshop and restart, it works. As long as I'm working on an image, it
works. Sometimes it will continue to work for several images. Other times
it will not work on the very next image opened. Earlier today it worked
fine for multiple images until I printed some, then stopped. I thought it
had something to do with printing so I shut down, restarted and worked
without making any prints. Again worked OK for a while and then stopped.
This is true for all brush type tools...paintbrush, clone, healing, etc. It
seemed like if I opened files directly from Photoshop instead of via bridge
that I had more success but now this evening it will only allow me to work
on a single image. If I close an image and open a new one, no brush
function no matter how I open it. This is just the way it acted up before
but then went dormant as I noted above.
There is no pattern or repeatability to it that can help me home in. By
that I mean, tomorrow it may indeed work fine for hours and then go wacky
again or it may go wacky on the first image. I thought it may have been a
RAM or some other cumulative type problem but this is shot down by the fact
that it will at times stop working immediately while other times work for a
long time.
I'm at the point where the only thing I can think of is it must be the
computer. I installed CS4 on an old clunky laptop and it works fine. I
installed the 30 day free version on this e-mail computer just as a test and
again it worked fine. On my super duper photo editing PC, it just won't go.
I didn't realize that I'd have to add the cost of a new computer into the
cost of upgrading to CS4 because the computer is not that old and definitely
not a clunker as noted in my original post. I'm already out about $200 for
two new video cards and still no luck.
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I recently installed CS4 on an iMac running OS 10.5.7. I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, with 4 GB of ram. The hard drive is 1 Terrabyte.
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Hi there,
After upgrading to Photoshop CS4 from CS3 (new install), I am having a problem with running Photoshop batch from bridge.
I have actions that work fine when run from Photoshop but fail when run from bridge.
I don't seem to be able to run any Photoshop actions from bridge without a failure.
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An update to this problem.
The problem appears to be with Bridge-Photoshop communication.
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I'm having a terrible time today trying to process the 3500 images I've got. I set up an action to process them, but I can't figure out how to link them to be used through Bridge. I'm running Bridge CS5 with PS CS4, and I'm used to going to Tools->Photoshop->Batch. It's missing entirely from the menu.
I did a bunch of research and found that this issue likely has something to do with the Startup Scripts. So I checked those, and Photoshop is missing from the options. I can't find where that script right reside, as the folder the scripts are supposed to live in appears to be empty (I do have Adobe Bridge CS5 and InDesign CS5 as options, though the script folder itself is empty).
If it's a simple matter of installing the appropriate script, where might I find it? And if not, how can I solve the problem?

If it's a simple matter of installing the appropriate script, where might I
find it? And if not, how can I solve the problem?
By default they are installed in the library at root level ( Mac OS:
//Library/Application Support/Adobe/Startup Scripts CS4/Adobe Photoshop/)
but I have no experience with - nor would I recommend - the use of CS5
Bridge with PSCS4.
If you don't have installed PSCS5 for whatever reason your fastest way would
be to start Bridge CS4. Let the folder with the files cache first and use
that Bridge version with PSCS4 to perform your batch. BTW, you can save and
export the actions from PSCS4 as a set and import them again in PSCS5.
And of course you could also open the batch in PS itself like we used to do
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I often work from Bridge and use the TOOLS>PHOTOSHOP>BATCH or TOOLS>PHOTOSHOP>LOAD FILES INTO PHOTOSHOP LAYERS
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This has thrown a HUGH spanner in my workflow and is driving me nuts.
I have tried deleting Bridge/photoshop prefs etc but nothing seems to help.
I'm guessing it has something to do with Bridge startup scripts or something.
I can batch via the Photoshop Automate menu but this is nowhere as efficient for me - I then have to hunt for the files etc.
Weird how it did work then not. The only change I made was installing a new version of ACR, but that was a week or so ago.
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The other plist file is from Bridge CS2 (CS had the filebrowser, in CS2 the
first version of Bridge appeared, hence the difference in versionnumbers)
If you don't use CS you can delete it safely but if you have not installed
it on your new system the install procedure has gone wrong, maybe you copied
the user library ?
However if a new user is the solution you can first try to use an archive
and install for your system.
This is an option when you have restarted your Mac from the install disk and
choose the Archive and Install option.
It is recommended that you first create a back up for your important files
but being a wise person you already have done so...
The archive and install is taking you about 1 hour of work including the use
of software-update and provides you with a new and fresh user.
It sure is worth a try, the other option would be to reinstall from scratch
(BTW, reinstalling CS without uninstall and refreshing preferences and
deleting plist files is not the best solution when in trouble)
I logged on as another user and the operation does work as it should!
I then followed your suggestions, resetting both PS and Bridge and deleting
the com.adobe.bridge3.plist.
I've also checked and repaired permissions on my startup disc.
I had also deinstalled and reinstalled Photoshop CS4 just the day before...
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There's another .plist above the one I deleted: com.adobe.bridge.plist.
Should I delete that one as well?

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