Premiere creates garbage zero-byte file while saving, project file dissapears/corrupts

Hi guys,
I've been experiencing a strange intermittent technical problem with Premiere project saves (and sometimes After Effects project files).
Case:
- Editor opens a project.
- After a moment, as editor hits 'save'.
- A strangely named file appears in the save location with no extension (a long string of characters separated by hyphons).
- Sometimes, this garbage file disappears and project is saved. Other times, this file remains and original project file disappears and the editor doesn't even know!
- If editor hits save again, a message box appears saying the file has been modified since last save - hit cancel or OK.
This issue has meant that we've lost project files, and have had to recover them from auto-save and/or Creative Cloud sync folder.
Sometimes it saves ok!
This is what the strange file looks like.
I don't know if this issue is related to Adobe software, Mac os or Linux but we've only run into it while using Adobe software.
Sometimes, After Effects throws an error related to this as well, forcing you to either 'save as', or incremental save.
It's a networked editing environment - all clients are Mavericks macs, working from a Ubuntu Linux server via SMB via gigabit ethernet. All clients are authenticated to the server as the same Admin user. Directory and Create masks are 0755 in SMB settings. SMB.conf also has some tuning parameters: socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536
Op-locks are disabled at server-side (I thought it could be to do with oplocks).
Does anyone have any ideas?
Or perhaps someone could explain to me the behind-the-scenes process that happens when Premiere executes a save?

Glad to hear it's not me going crazy, but unglad that you're experiencing it!
Recently we replaced SMB with NFS as the protocol for sharing our main raid volume and cache, and since then this issue no longer happens.
This definitely points to the way Adobe apps with with SMB. I have a feeling it's something to do with oplocks or something behind the scenes that denies PP access to the project file for overwriting it.
TBH, as a bonus NFS feels like a rocketship to planet editor-bliss. It's a proper beast. Unfortunately I'm not sure how good the Windows implementation is (I know certainly that only windows 7/8 enterprise clients are able to access NFS shares, which is a bummer for most).

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