Automatically saving edits in the DNG

One of the reasons I import to DNG is the ability to save my edits directly in the DNG. According to Adobe Tech Support, selecting Automatically wite changes into XMP should do just that. However it does not work.
Using Ctrl + S in library mode is also supposed to write your edits to the header of the DNG. Then you should be able to take ycopy your dng and re-import it in other lightroom environments without concern for copying the entire LRCAT. I have done this with some success. Unfortunately a great deal of the time I get an error message "Writing XMP metadata did not complete successfully" with only a portion of the files containing the edits.
Is there a fix to this bug.
Jim

Hello Ian,
First I thought about the word "bug" and regretted using it immediately after I clicked the post message button. I understand that everything will not be saved. However, when I do get a successful save all the edited information is in the DNG, it can be imported into another version of Lightroom on my notebook without the lrcat. I tried to send you an example of a successful save but the forum will only allow up to a 5mb file and my dng files are all over 20mb
1. All files are in the same directory.
2. None of the files are write protected.
3 All files are on-line (accessible)
The most successful save was 6 out of 30 files selected when I pressed Ctrl+S. Today I have not been able to save any files successfully without the error message.
Just an fyi, I have been using Lightroom since it came out. Unfortunately, until recently I have not been an active forums participant. I have been a professional photographer for 40 years. Originally, Lightroom was such a change in paradigm for me that I wrestled with it constantly. Now I do not know what I would do without it. So now I plan to become more active in the forums community. However, first I need to get answers to all those hidden irritations that have bothered me for a long time. This is one of those irritations.
My purpose wanting to find out why this intermittently works this is that I am also a teacher. I need to be able to edit the files on my computer at my home office and them transfer them to my notebook to take to school for class lectures. I would like to do this without transfering the lrcat and let Lightroom create a new lrcat when I do the import. In addition, my students who have access to Lightroom on the schools computer need to be able to take their dng files, with their edits with them. School policy is to clean the data areas at least weekly. The new semester stars in a couple of weeks and it would be nice if some of my nagging questions can be solved.
Anything you can do to help me figure out why I cannot consistantly save the edits directly in the dng would be really helpful.
Jim

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