FCPX modifying files on its own?

Having a very frustrating issue that I have researched but can't find the exact answer to my problem.
This is the second project that this has happened to and it's wasting SO much time. Please help. Here is what is happening -
I import media to an event and start pulling clips down to the timeline in a project. Then as I continue to build the edit - several hours in - some of the clips turn up as modified. Even though they haven't been modied. The first time this happened It happened with a multi cam clip and I only needed the audio so it didn't screw up the scene because the audio wasn't modified.
But now it's happening and I need the imagrey. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
The clips were shot with a 5d mark ii and a 5d mark iii. Please help.
ANY suggestions would be greatly apprecaited.
Thank you.

Thanks Luis for your response. It is very strange. I imported the clips from the camera cards to my hard drive (external). Then I imported them using the optimized media feature, converting them to Apple Pro Res 4444.
When I go to clip and "reveal in finder" it shows that the clip is located in the High Quality Media folder in the Final Cut folders - but even there - in finder - it shows up as a modified file and is red. See screenshot.
The only workaround that I have been able to find is to go to the original location of the media and drag it into the timeline from finder. When asked I choose optimized media again. This seems to work however all editing that has been done is lost.
One thing that I have noticed, this has happened twice so far, and both files that have gone up as being modified were at one time or another used to create multicam clips. However, in one of the cases, it was the multicam clip that eneded up being modified. In the other case, as is shown in both screen shots, there was a clip that I tried to use in a multi cam clip but it didn't work too well. So I didn't use the multicam clip and just used the clip by itself.
In both cases - these clips were working fine and then later (presumably after the render completed) they turned up modified.
Does that help?

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