AE CC: Will no longer collect files

Never ran into this before, started with the most recent update.
Whenever I try to collect files, it inevitably gets to:
After Effects warning: The file...... could not be found.
Then it ends collecting, so whatever is beyond that file is never copied. Incredibly frustrating. I thought at first it may be file names, long paths, etc. but right now I'm looking at a problem with a file named IMAC.png that resides in /(Footage)/Source/images/ - so that can't be it.
I have a RAID setup that I work from, so I also tried collecting to the desktop. Same thing.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks!
Maria
AE 12.2.1.5
10.9.1 Build 13B42
2x2.93 6-Core Xeon
20GB RAM

We're also having this issue. To date:
I've been told that permissions where the collections are being written need to be read/write not just for owner and group; but also for everyone (that is, 777) so I modified the launched-user UMASK so that files and folders created by user launched threads are created with the required permissions.
Permissions for the Adobe folder in ~/Documents also apparently has to have the same wide-open permissions
Have spent over an hour and a half with Adobe support working on this issue, ultimately sending them a copy of the After Effects project that refused to respond to any remediation
Cleared caches
Cleared preferences (altering the default preferences to allow scripts to write to the network caused workstations that previously were able to collect to lose that ability; but that option is necessary in order for our Qube render farm to receive work from the artists)
Have found that some workstations are able to collect certain projects that error out on the majority; but have been unable to identify what the difference is, as the plugins used are the same, across the board
The Adobe support case is 0185837757
The artists that I support are on the verge of demanding we revert back to CS5. This has become a huge political hot potato at my work!

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