Photoshop- Batch tool missing in Bridge?

My Photoshop-> Batch is missing from the bridge tools menu? And when I go into Photoshop to automate->Batch I can't choose Bridge as a source. It is there, but it is not in bold(i.e.cannot be selected.)
I have checked my Bridge->Preferences-> Start up script, and all Photoshop options are checked there. I have also tried enabling them agin, and then restarting Bridge, and resetting Bridge Preferences, still nothing. I also tried to delete plist files in my library- I just deleted the bridge one- but I'm not sure what that really does, in any case, it didn't work.
I used to work. Any suggestions??

mydogcalli wrote:
But my problem is that in Bridge, all I have under the tools menu is cache, the Photoshop->Batch option isn't there anymore.
In that case, something is wrong with your install. Only thing I can offer is to do an uninstall and a fresh install.

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