Vincent,
i'm sorry too hear so. viewing and sorting is much faster in PM than in Bridge.
I will find an other workflow orso.
Photo Mechanic's best strengths are downloading (Ingest), captioning (IPTC Stationery Pad, IPTC Info), tagging, culling (Preview), and uploading (FTP As, PhotoShelter Upload). It also works very well as a launcher for ACR and other RAW converters.
So what we generally recommend is to use Photo Mechanic as the hub of your workflow, and your RAW converter to produce TIFFs, PSDs or JPEGs which you can further use with Photo Mechanic to complete your workflow.
Also, if you want to use the DNG format, I believe that adjustments will update the embedded previews in the DNG files which will show as adjusted in Photo Mechanic.
HTH,
-Kirk