Photoshop sorting by width/height

I'm pulling my hair out here...I've searched the archives but can't find what I

recall was a fairly simple procedure for sorting images by horizontal/vertical

orientation in the Photoshop CS file browser. Basically, I want to apply a

simple resize/color correct/sharpen action to a large batch of images. I have

one action that handles vertical images and another that takes care of

horizontals. But for the life of me, I can't get the images in the browser to

sort themselves into verticals and horizontals. In the sort window, I select

"width" and some resorting occurs, but not into clean batches of verticals and

horizontals. I'm pretty sure this used to work, but my problem may have

something to do with the fact that I now use two cameras -- Canon 20D and 5D --

where I used to use just one. So the original files have different dimensions

depending on which camera they came from. Can someone help?

If you are scaling each to the same final long side dimension, then take File - Automate -

Fit Image. It's a one-step process. No sorting needed.

For example, say I have 1000 pictures, some landscape orientation, some portrait, and I

want them all to a maximum long side of 500 pixels, I would take File - Automate - Fit

Image and in the dimension boxes put 500 and 500.

Do one recorded as an action, then do the rest all at once with the Batch or Droplet

feature.

I did exactly that this week on 3002 pictures, all at once. Fired it up and went out for

coffee.

Pico:

thanks for that...seems simple.. one final question... when I follow that method, I end up with an image size in pixels of 1800 wide and 1200 high. That's was my target; I entered 1800 in the fit-to windows because that's what I used to get on the long end in pixels when I resized using the crop tool and setting the top bar to 6 x 4 at 300ppi. Now, using this new method, the upper section of the image size screen reads 1800 and 1200 pixels (just like in the old method), but the lower section says 25 inches wide, 16.667 inches high at 72ppi. I this the same as 6x4 at 300ppi?