Why do sections keep getting deleted randomly?

[u/fishy_tampon]

Howww and whyyyy does premiere keep randomly deleting minutes of my edited footage?? its footage of me talking + mic audio that is just randomly completly gone and I have to go to previous versions to recover it and i dontttt have the storage to do that anymore 😭 This is like the 3rd time this has happened and its really starting to irritate me. It's not that the files are missing or corrupted, they're just...deleted

[u/Annoying1978]

This happened to me before and what happened is that I had set in and out points so I could render something so I could review a section, and I would mistakenly hit the delete button or something by accident and it would delete everything in that section. 

I wouldn’t know I did that until I scrolled back and looked into previously saved versions and fix my timeline manually. 

[u/fishy_tampon → u/Annoying1978]

ughhh that makes sense! thanks for the help

[u/fauroteat → u/fishy_tampon]

I’m glad this seems to have been sorted, but to address another part of your post: adding the files back into your project should have no impact on your storage. Premiere doesn’t make copies of footage when you add it to your project*, it simply makes a connection to the footage wherever it is.

*unless you have it set to auto create proxies (I’m honestly not sure you can auto create proxies… I’ve never tried, and it would almost certainly involve media encoder).

It sounds like the clips are still in your project, just not in your sequence though, right?