Illustrator is Automatically Embedding my Linked Images

Is there some sort of "Auto Embed" feature that will embed your linked images?
I have a document that is embedding most of the linked images. It's not happening in all my documents, just one

Did you check this
on Placing the file and then do this
on Saving? If you did, it will embed the file.

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