Saving batch of images down to multiple resolutions?

Something I've been running into but have no idea how to actually have Photoshop do this. When I get high res images from a client, we save them down to medium res and low res. To do this currently, I have two actions, the medium saving the images down to 150 dpi and the low saving down to 72 dpi. Right now I've been running each separately through the image processor. This is all well and good, but ideally I would love to run one script that once I select the folder with the high res images, would run both actions, putting the downsized medium res images into a MEDRES folder and low res into a LOWRES. Seems silly, but it would save time and would be especially helpful for the other guys around who are not as photoshop savy.

Are you actually downsampling the image, or simply reassigning a resolution? It sounds like the latter, in which case using PS sounds like overkill. Resolution means nothing to a digital image, it's just a number assigned to an attribute (is it just in the metadata?) that can be read by a printer. I would think there would be all kinds of programs that could simply change the number without having to actually edit the photo.

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