Premiere Pro won't import XML files

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March 6, 2018
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Hello,

I need to put English subtitles on a german video which is over an hour, I've been given an XML by a professional subtitling company (who we've worked with in the past and they're XMLs could always be imported by Premiere before), but Premiere will not import it into the project! I've tried importing it in all the ways I know how (File>Import, dragging and dropping and through the Media Browser), but nothing seems to work. The strange thing is I'm not getting any error window, when I try to import it, Premiere acts like it normally does with the Import Window popping up, but when it's finished there's nothing in my project! Can anyone please advise me on this issue?? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is it something to do with the most recent Premiere update? Do I need to update my OS?

Many thanks in advance.

I'm currently using

macOS Sierra 10.12.4

3 GHz 8-Core Intel Zeon E5

Premiere CC is the latest version: 12.0.1

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Correct answer billgarv2007

There is a bug in Premiere 12.0.1 with the "Allow Duplicate Media during project import" check box in Preferences>Media. If you have it checked it thinks that its duplicate media and will not import the media for both AAFs and XMLs. I've found that if you toggle it off, it will import your AAF.