Browsing for layered PSD & TIFF files

I have a folder with about 700 Photoshop and TIFF files. I want to browse quickly through the whole group and find those files that have layers. I have looked in Bridge and in Lightroom. Neither of those shows the number of layers in a file.
I remember seeing this information once somewhere else but I can't find it now.
Thomas

The File Info in the Finder does provide such info but is not really convenient, I guess.
One can search the Layer-names in Finder, but I’m unsure how to use the existence of the Layers-property itself …
Edit: If the files all had a Background Layer and one searched the Contents instead of the Names it would be fairly easy to identify them.
This may be unnecessarily complicated but I would expect that a Script could be used to read the Files and retrieve the pertinent information (though that’s beyond me), so unless someone presents a more convenient solution you might try asking in the Photoshop Scripting Forum.

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I've trained myself that whenever a new file is created in an application outside of LR (including PS), I always re-apply lens correction upon first returning to LR. If I'm interpreting the above responses correctly, I shouldn't need to re-apply lens correction if I applied it to the original files. But again, it's not my observation that this is the case.
If your particular workflow is failing to reflect the first application of lens corrections (as well as perhaps, other specific adjustments) - then what returns to LR will not have undergone those kinds of corrections yet.
I'm also hearing that I may need to download a lens profile for this lens for a TIFF file format. I've never needed to do that before, so perhaps I'll give that a shot.
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I've been searching the interweb thin for Bridge plug-ins without luck.
I work in a production company and we have a quite intense QA process meaning that we compare images against each other and return feedback to editors.
So instead of cycling through applications it would make our life so much easier to just stay inside adobe bridge.
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I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this request, but I figured that this was the best place to ask.
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I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this request, but I figured that this was the best place to ask.
These feature requests better be placed in the correct location:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family
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