Managing projects changes - left behind

When I upgraded to 8.0.0, I loved the new feature that created a project folder, and also nested folders for organization. With the 8.0.1 update, I noticed lots of files being copied when I saved a new project. This essentially means that I have to go back to my old ways and create these folders manually, or waste HUGE amounts of drive space.
I finally figured out what was going on and found this in the Late-Breaking News file:
+Saving a Project+
+When you use the File > Save As command to save your project to a new location+
+(outside the current project folder) and select the Include Assets checkbox, the new+
+project folder will contain all audio files used in the “old” project’s Arrange area. The+
+“Copy external audio files to project folder” checkbox does not affect this behavior.+
Later, in the next section, it adds:
+If, for some reason, you don’t wish to include used audio files, don’t enable the Include+
+Assets checkbox in the Save As dialog.+
How about a way to create these project folders without wasting so much space with duplicate files?
Is anyone else having a problem with this new "feature"?

I think its a Adobe bug, not a Microsoft bug. The behaviour started when Microsoft released a update (KB2993651) back in august 2014. The first thought is that it is a Microsoft issue but the KB clearly states a change in FONT behavior. Adobe didn't react to this change and Microsoft keeps updating the engine on a monthly basis so there are already alot of other KB's that can cause the same issue.
Furthermore. The same problem already existed before in 2011 on older systems. Adobe never figured it out and only suggested a workarround.
Acrobat/Reader: [email protected] files left behind in Temp folder after printing
Another user on this forum did some research and found that Adobe uses a legacy function when printing from Adobe reader.
http://blog.notmyfault.ch/?p=378
If Adobe leaves Z@ temp files behind in the user temp directory after printing and those files can't be deleted other than a reboot it must be a Adobe bug. Other utilities like FoxIT reader do not have this problem on modern updated Windows OS-es.

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> I know this sounds a little weird, but sometimes after one of my techs
runs one of the scripts we use stuff is left behind on the workstation
(games, or media players that are not part of the image - but not
everything). You can actually watch the image process and complete ok and
restart the computer - it even goes though the post imaging stuff prior to
login. Here is an example of one of the 2 scripts doing this sometimes -
>
> dd if=/bin/mbr.mbr of=/dev/hda
> dd if=/bin/mbr.mbr of=/dev/sda
>
> img pd1
> img pd2
> img pd3
> img pd4
> img pc1 ntfs
> img rp $PROXYADDR //$PROXYADDR/zen/images/imagename.zmg a1:p1
> img pa1
> reboot -f
>
> It's happening on XP and 2000 latest updates on both, were currently
running Zfd version 6.5.2. Has anyone seen this, or do you see any reason
with this script that this would happen?? It works normally if you go
though imaging w/o the scripts.
>
> Thanks for any clues!!
> Dennis

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