Now I see that all my scratch disk is set to Documents. I changed the Destination Path to my external drive where there are 9TB. This requires the project to be saved. It is 200MB! Wow. The dialog says the original project file size was 968MB. Why should it be less in size? Why when I say to save it does it say "copying media"?
Totallly unacceptable outrageous hall of horrors for me. Now there is a new folder called "Copied_ProgrammableYogaMat and in it are some of the PSD files in the project that are on the external drive. There are new previews folders, a new copy of an mp4 that is on the external drive, and a new Media Cache folder. The new project file is in the "Copied ... " folder right under the original project file. Versionitis ER.
Please someone tell me how I can create a project file on the external drive, save it as I work, and not have auto-save auto-switch everything to the scratch drive.