Your Number 2.
There are NO image files Stored in LrC.
LrC is a Database program that references, makes a record of, your images in the catalog file, to the Database, as to where they are stored on your hard drives and what edits you make to them.
Your end of # 2. Do Edits in Ps again.
How are you opening that TIF file in Ps? Edit In then selecting Ps 20xx? and when this dialog box comes up which option are you selecting?
Edit a Copy with Lr Adjustments? That will include and NEW adjustment done in LrC to that TIF file and when returned to LrC it will be another NEW TIF file.
Edit a Copy? That will also return another copy, version, of the original TIF but will not included any of the edits you did in LrC to the original TIF file.
Edit Original? That will apply any new edits done in Ps to the original TIF file and they will show up in the original TIF in LrC after you save them in Ps. It will not create another version of the original TIF file.
Your # 7. Using Save As does not send the file back to LrC. Some say iut does but that has not been my experience (Most of the time). Use SAVE Ctrl + s and then it should save back to LrC.
Your # 8.
First use SAVE. Then you should be able to use the Save As command to save a copy of that file to some other drive and or folder. that Saved As file will not show back up in LrC.
Your # 10.
I do not think you can Save or Convert a multi layered FILE to a Smart Object. That is an option for Layers and or for a image file sent to Ps to Open it as a Smart Object. The One layer that is created in Ps from that image sent to Ps is converted into a Smart Object. Same for if you select multiple files in LrC and use the command Open in Ps as Smart Object. Each individual file is opened in Ps and the one layer that is converted to a Smart Object.
There is no command to Open as layers in Ps and convert to Smart Object. Once the multiple images sent to Ps as Layers have opened you can then convert each layer, each image, to be a Smart Object.
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