LR fails to see files for importing - LR is ONE frustrating program

Question

After doing a shoot and importing raw files into a new LR library folder, I open some of the files in PS and make a few edits, save as jpegs in the current folder. I understand now that LR is not very intelligent, and doesn't recognize the new jpegs (see earlier thread discussing LR inability to do this). LR apparently requires me to re-import the folder so that it can recognize the new jpegs. So I do an import of the existing LR library folder. Because LR is not very intelligent and doesn't realize that the selected folder is the one I want to import, I have to navigate a long directory structure to select the folder and click the choose command. For some reason LR only recognizes some of the jpegs that were added (in a previous situation it doesn't recognize the jpeg it created using the LR export command) and fails to add a large number of jpegs during the importing process.
What is happening? Not only does LR make it much more complex to accomplish such a simple straightforward worklow operation, but it doesn't even succeed in executing its own commands.
I find LR increasingly more frustrating as simple straightforward workflow procedures involving file management and printing have now been made complicated. I am not a novice computer user. I teach photography at the college level, do commercial photography and graphic arts work, and would be considered a very experienced computer user, the type that other people rely upon to answer questions and trouble shoot.

Answer 1

Pamela, This is one frustrating thing about Adobe, I think they cripple products to force you to purchase other ones. I use PS and InDesign, and it is obvious they have purposely left out features from InDesign in order to force you to purchase it. I already own both, so for me it just makes my work more complicated. They seem to be taking a similar approach with LR, purposely leave out features that bridge has, forcing you to own bridge.
Guy, I do normally keep jpegs in a different folder. The problem I am having now is that I have created a separate jpeg folder and LR doesn't recognize a large number of jpegs that I want to import into this folder. For some reason it ignores some of them. Probably because they have identical file names as the PSD files, whether though I have the ignore suspected duplicates boxed checked or unchecked. So I will have to rename them and try importing again. Of course I cannot rename them in LR, because LR refuses to see them.
These complications could be so easy to resolve if LR simply had some of bridges capabilities.