Premiere automatically replaces a deleted video file with another file with the same name found in other folders on the drive.
Premiere automatically replaces a deleted video file with another file with the same name found in other folders on the drive. More details. I was given two flash drives containing video from different cameras, even from different shooting days. But the file names in the folders are the same. Both are Sony cameras. The files in the first folder start with C001, and the files on the second flash drive also start with C001. I import these files into Premiere. All the files are in different folders. Each camera has its own Composition (Sequence). I start editing. I find the defective shots and immediately delete these files from the computer drive so they don't take up space. Previously, Premiere would immediately display an error that the file is now unavailable (it can't find the file), and Premiere would open a window asking me to find the file manually. I see which files it can't find and then simply delete them from the project. But now Premiere simply replaces the deleted file from the first composition with a file with the same name from the other composition. It doesn't understand that these are two different files (different dates, different sizes, different folders both on the disk and in the project) and simply replaces it automatically. And then chaos ensues. All the files are mixed up in the composition.
