Camera RAW doesnt save AUTO Adjustments in XML files unless I click on each photo

Report · Mar 11, 2022

My workflow is this: Shoot 1000+ photos in RAW. Open them all at once in Bridge -> Camera RAW. Select All. Click "Auto". Drag Highlights to 0, Shadows 10 95. Right-click a thumbnail and save them all as JPEG. Click Done. Then I go through the JPEG's and select the few good ones, and move their ARW (Sony RAW) and XML files to a separate folder for editing. However, at this point, when I reopen these in Bridge -> Camera RAW, the XML file doesn't contain the "Auto"-button adjustments. The issue is that I have to select-all and click "Auto" again .. and any manually adjusted individual pictures, this second "Auto" wipes those adjustments and I have to adjust them all over again. On smaller batches where I adjusted a lot of pictures, on the second open I have to find the un-adjusted pictures and manually click "Auto" on each one of them. A lot of labor.

I've found that if I put a heavy object on my right-arrow key and let Camera Raw scroll through all the thumbnails, then the "Auto" adjustments are saved when I click "Done". However, this eats up a lot of time so I can't always do this before bedtime, when I convert to JPEG.

Is this "not saving Auto" a feature or a bug? Or am I not understanding how "Auto" is supposed to work?

Report · Mar 11, 2022

Select all then in the lowermost dropdown, export settings to XMP.

Report · Mar 14, 2022

I have that same problem, but with dng-files. And this appeared with the last update.
I take my RAW-photos, download files to my M1-iMac. Open pics through Bridge with cameraraw, make my adjustements (as usual for many years), activate my pics and save as DNG-files. New files open through Bridge without adjustments. When I open pics, DNGs look like to have all same adjustments as the RAW-file, but photos are bad, cameraraw gets the info of adjustments but doesn't use the info.
I think there's a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed!!!