PSE5 Process Multiple Files Image Resize

I want to batch convert some TIFF files to JPG and make them all 300 ppi. I tried suing the Multiple file processor in the Editor just entering 300 in resolution and leaving width & height blank. I hoped it would perform the same process as going to image resize and and changing resolution with resample and constrain proportions turned off. Instead it has changed the ppi from 72 to 300, but kept the size the same i.e. has added lots of extra pixels making the file enormous.
The only way I can force it to shrink the image is to enter say 30cm as the width. The problem with this is twofold a) I have to trun all my photos so they are landscape b) if I have cropped a photo such that it doesn't have enough pixels to stretch then again it is getting resampled.
Is this a limitation of PSE5 that wouldn't be there in CS3 or am I doing something wrong? I only want to print tham out 15x10 but read I should resize everything to 300 ppi. To be honest I never did this before I had PSE and they seemed to come out OK from a Canon that saves the files as default 72 ppi but large dimensions. Maybe someone couldexplain in laymans terms why the photos need to be resized to 300 ppi anyway? Thank you

Well, you see, Process Multiple files is doing just what you asked it to do: it's
resizing the photos. But you don't really want to resize the photos, just change the ppi setting. Is there a particular reason you want them to be 300ppi? PPI is a setting that only matters for printing or if you are sending a photo somewhere that requires that marker to be set to 300. Your camera doesn't know anything about ppi, only absolute pixel dimensions (eg 2480 x 1795 or whatever).
When you go to print, however, your printer may prefer to have a higher pixel density, since it can play your pixels like an accordian: squash them closer together or spread them out thinner, depending on that ppi marker. The pixel density determines the inch/cm size of your print (at 72 ppi you'll get a print that's hugely bigger but less detailed; at 300 ppi a crisper smaller print.)
I'm wondering why you would want to batch convert a whole big bunch of images at once, though. It would help if you would explain just what you want to do with the photos that requires the 300 ppi.

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