"Edit In" Improvements

I've encountered two major annoyances attempting to use the "Edit In" external application feature.
1)
Assume we have the image filename: img_0001.cr2
When using the "Edit In" feature, Lightroom generates the file by default: img_0001-edit.tif
Now, when we try to do any export operations on this file and use the "Original File Number" as part of the destination file name template, the number is completely ignored due to the append "-edit".
It would be nice to have Lightroom specifically test for the '-edit' prefix and attempt to pull a numerical entity right before it, if the image does not end in a numeric.
2)
The particular external editing application that I'm using does *NOT* support saving Exif or XMP data at all. Once I save my changes in that application and return back to Lightroom, my metadata for the image is completely lost. It would be nice if I could use the Metadata syncronization tool to sync more than editable fields if the destination image has no data at all.
Basically, when I save using this app, I lose my camera/lens information and settings. Now when I attempt to export this edited Tiff image, I have no Exif data. It would be nice to be able to recover the Exif data from the original RAW/JPG file, especially since they're already auto-stacked together by Lightroom.

re 1)
In Preferences|External Editing you have the ability to define the edited filename. The full capabilities of the Filename Template Editor can be used to make it many things other than the default which is giving you problems.

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