Image tracing in illustrator using actions

Hi i want to image trace couple thousand picture in black and white
i created an action for it. It would open and save the image but wouldnt trace the image.
i am using cs 6.
any help/suggestion would be appreciated

Adobe Bridge has a script to trace selected images.
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