Camera Raw edits through Bridge are not showing

Just to make sure I'm clear, I'm not referring to the preview image in LR, I'm referring to the actual edits seen in the develop module. For exmple, if I change the white balance to daylight on a raw file, when I open it in Lightroom the white balance is still "as shot". It only updates if I right click and choose "read metadata from file". Once I do that, the white balance is set to daylight. 

I just can't help but feel there is an automatic way to do this. It seems very odd considering they both use camera raw. And it works form LR to Bridge, just not Bridge to LR.

DdeGannes said ... "If there is XMP data available at import to LrC it will be read."
This only happens if I choose to update the meta data from the file.

About the differences in program speed, I thought Lightroom was notoriously slower because it catalogs everything, creates its own database. Is that really not the case?

Lightroom starts out fine but once I start doing edits it's slow to respond. Especially when I use adjustments layers with a mask. And I only have about 75 images in this catalog, its very small. Once I start making edits to images, eventually things slow down. Selecting "Library" module will take a few seconds, trying to move to another image will be delayed a bit. Overall, it just slows down all together.

I've made sure I'm fully updated with all software. I'm running Big Sur 11.5.2 and latest Adobe software. I have 32GB of memory inside a 27" iMac with 4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7. And my lightroom catalog is on an external SSD. All my data is on external SSD drives since I have an iMac and the one drive inside is not that large.

I'd prefer to only use one application, but the speed and effeciency in using Bridge is noticeable. Lightroom has always been sluggish for me compared to Bridge. 

Any ideas?

Not sure what's happening, but I saw a new post you added that has now disaapeared! Try using the large blue Reply button that's in your original post. 

posted a reply in wrong discussion, my bad, deleted. Don't mind me, I am not here.

On reviewing the link provided by the Author I came across the following comment

“ That said, you can choose within Camera Raw whether you want to use the XMP file method or have those changes saved in a central database, but more often than not, people use the XMP file.”. 

I do not normally work with Camera Raw but I am not aware of that option. Is the writer of that article possibly referring to the Lightroom Catalog?

Anyone care to comment.

That's what puzzles me. I would hands-down prefer to use LrC over Camera Raw any day.

I think a better idea would be to figure out why Lightroom (or is it Lightroom Classic?) is slower than Bridge. Under the hoods, they both use the same ACR code, so Lightroom and Bridge should have the same speed. If we can figure this out, then you could just use one software, which would be easier and simpler.

What actions in Lightroom are slow?

Author of the thread stated “ all I need to do is ensure that the .xmp files are in the same folder when importing into lightroom.”  I do not think that you can view the edits before or while the import is taking place you will only see them when the building of the previews is complete. If there is XMP data available at import to LrC it will be read.

Lightroom Classic is a complete stand alone application and will read and write to the Catalog file. There is an option to select “Automatically write XMP to the file”, LrC does not automatically read from the file.

To wit LrC is an alternative to Bridge and Adobe Camera Raw plugin in Photoshop.

After you have imported a new batch of images, go to the library module and highlight all of those images. Then in the metadata menu choose the option to read metadata from file. That will force LrC to read all of the adjustments that were saved to XMP files in Camera Raw or saved to the DNG files, and those adjustments will then be visible in LrC.