Photoshop Action from Bridge

I have a bunch of PNG files that keep on showing up with no preview. Can't figure out why. But, I have figured out that if I open them in Photoshop and re-save them it fixes the preview.
So, I did an action in Photoshop where I saved the file under the same name, telling it NOT to append w/ copy. Then told it to close the file.
Well, the first 4 or 5 times I ran the action it worked EXCEPT it still appended w/ copy. I just deleted the original files because that was better than the alternatives of doing it one at a time or having no preview.
Well, now it won't work. I think it has to do with some type of file save over-ride in Bridge? The first time I ran it I noticed a greyed out file location folder that was from weeks ago. But, it was putting the files in the same place so I disregarded. Then I did something (don't know what) and that folder is gone. BTW, another gripe, how come most of the time it will only let me put folders on the desktop and nowhere else really?
Now the action won't work at all. I think because of the "save as" settings in Bridge. None of them will work. and I can't figure it out from Photoshop either. What magic setting did I mess up?
Thanks,
Holly

Don't know much about behavior of PNG files. I did see in one post that .PNG files require both preview and thumbnail extractions as they can't be generated "on the fly". Not sure exactly what this means, but probably has something to do with your problem.
If you have a greyed out folder where the PNG files are I would purge the cache here (tools/cache/ purge cache for xxx folder) and see if it clears it up.

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===========================
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[email protected] wrote:
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[email protected] wrote:
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>
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