Relinking automatically to wrong files

Q: Is there any way to disable/control the auto relinking behaviour?

BG:

Managing in this post refers to what is called consolidation in Avid (although it requires transcoding in PP)

Took over a job that had been edited separately (with full copy of media) and returned to base as a 'managed' (i.e. transcoded to new, shorter files) project. This was done to ensure any fresh media added travelled back to base.

This resulted in some incorrect relinking (both to fundamentally different, full length, files with the same name and to the wrong part of original, long, files that had been managed).

I saw this first hand when trying to micro manage the correct shots (to send to VFX) by sub-sequencing those shots, export the subsequence as a fresh project, managing the media, then copying the managed section back to the sequence in the main project.

Rather than retaining the link to the managed media, recent versions of PP do a relinking/relinking process and link back to the beginning of the original long clips (ie both original path & align time code not respected).

Partly this is down to managed behaviour that names first transcoded file exactly the same as source and subsequent files have a number appended. 

(With the progress window open I noticed that the relinking process seems to occur when opening a project - even if that project was only just saved and no linking has changed.)

PP 23.2.x on MacOS, Editshare storage.