When saving, how do I disable Audition from copying files to local drive?

[johnr44409788]

When I bring in a clip, such as a long video file with audio, it always wants to save a copy of the file somewhere.  Audition used to just keep the file where it was and I didn't have to save or copy it anywhere.

How to I stop audition from creating a copy of every file I bring into the timeline?  I just want the file to live where it is without a copy.

Some of these files are huge sizes and with every new project all of these copies are destroying my drive space.  Plus, it's takes a while to constantly import a copy of these large files when I just want to save the multitrack session.

Thanks for any information you may have.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

There is a setting in Preferences>Media & Disk Cache which you might want to disable, if it's enabled (it sounds as though it might be). It's the Shared Media Cache Files setting - take the check out of it. But the other issue here is that creating working files is going to be essential if you are importing 48k files into an Audition session that's running at 44.1k - you can't get around that, as the 48k files would need to be sample-rate converted, and the converted version inserted into your multitrack session.

What's the save path of these files? It should be fairly easy to establish what's causing them to be there, I would think.