Premiere Generating Files?

[tomd78045904]

Hi,

So I am working on a Mac Pro with the newest version of Premiere (12.0 Build 224) with Proxies. I'm also working with another Editor. When she sent me her project file, I opened it, reconnected the her media with mine and copied her sequences in my timeline. When I opened the project again, her audio files and proxies regenerated in my project. So now I have duplicate media in my project. This seems to be a common Premiere problem that they cannot solve no matter how many times I ask about it.

But here's where it starts getting weird and might be a new bug. I started working on my MB Pro laptop. And all of a sudden, Premiere must have generated duplicate files for both the Proxies and Audio files (Refer to screenshots). It basically put (_1 - _4) at the end of every file. They are small (less than 50 KB) and cannot be imported into Premiere (unsupported or damaged file). So now I have thousands of these files on my drive and no idea why. Any ideas? Anyone know a quick way to delete these useless files?

Thanks,

Tom

[R Neil Haugen]

Do you have the Edit/Preferences/Media Cache option of "Save .cfa & pek files next to original media" checked?

If so, uncheck that and see if this stops.

Neil

[tomd78045904]

Hi Neil,

Thanks for responding. No, it's not checked. It's not the pek or cfa files that are being generated. It's like it is duplicating the actual media files for some reason.

[R Neil Haugen]

Drat. Someone else had this issue with those files being generated and unchecking that fixed their troubles. Odd as it sounds.

Neil

[ninjagoldfish]

Having the same issue - only noticed it today. This is so weird... anyone else?