Help! FCPX is copying my media to the Original Media folder even though I tell it not to.

I made the transition to FCPX several months ago and in the beginning saw no issue with the import process - FCPX would create aliases when asked during the import process and all would be well. Now FCPX insists on copying my media to the Original Media folder. It no longer creates aliases. This consumes my RAM, takes up hard drive space as the files are duplicated, and slows down my editing process. What am I missing? None of the options to copy the media are checked. I review this every time but each time I try to import without copying, transcoding or anything I still find that FCPX copies the media instead of creating aliases. Please advise... many thanks.

What do you see in the import dialog? Is copy media grayed out? What preferences do you have set in importing? How are in importing? Drag and drop? Import window? What are you importing? Where are you importing from?

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>Has a restart tab but at this point it has frozen and the mouse and keyboard do not functiuon.
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