Placing Pictures into PS CS6 transforms image size

Hey community,
i have been looking for this problem on the web for hours now and can´t find a solution:
I am having an issue concerning the 'Place' functionality. I want to place several hundred small pictures from Bridge in an existing PSD-file. Therefore i drag and drop them from Mini-Bridge into the file. The transformation-dialog pops up and i can place the image. Unfortinatly it changes the scale of every single image automaticly, which is a huge problem if you have to resize them to their original scale 200+ times.
Is there a possibility to disable the automatic increasing size and place the images (.png-files) in their original scale? I don´t know if this is a PS-problem or is related to Bridge. Feel free to move it to the PS-Board if it helps.
Thanks for your help!
Best regards

This is indeed more a question for the PS forum. However using Mini Bridge and drag and drop files it creates Smart Objects from the files which is a great feature to my opinion.
And yes, the smart object always chooses the nearest document bounds to snap to. I don't know an other way, maybe the PS forum does.
But be aware that you can select multiple files in MB and drag and drop them in one go. You only need to hit return for each file to get it placed. And after this you can select all the new layers in the layer panel and resize the SO to the format you want in one go. Using guides can be of help for scaling to the correct size and hold shift for keeping the ratio the same.
Use right mouse click on layers to select the layer you want to move once rescaled. Plenty of easy workflows to use

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