Well the problem is that I can ' t seem to find it ' s settings . <| sep |> Premiere has different settings for ingesting footage . If you leave ingest unchecked , it will read the files from their current location . However if you have it checked , without going into the settings , it may be copying all your files to your i ternal drive by default . This can be useful for a REDproxy workflow , since you can set the program to encode proxy files into a specific destination on your internal drive for faster renderingscrubbing , or if you want to work off your internal drive and leave your external as a backup . If you don ' t have any issies with your connection however , leaving ingest turned off will save you space .