Premiere CS6 Startup Freeze Due to XMP File

CS6 Production Premium Suite
Win7x64
Canon XA10
Using Windows Explorer, I copy the BDMV folder from the XA10 to my project folder.
Using the Media Browser, I import the clip (which consists of two MTS files).
I edit the clip.
The next day when I open the project, the circle turns with a "not responding" message.
I close the project.
I delete the XMP file in the STREAM folder.
I open the project and everything works.
This has happened on several projects.
Why is it necessary to delete the XMP file?
Somehow it is being corrupted.
Thanks in advance.

I don't know what is causing the issue, but if you don't actually use the .xmp file for anything you can just turn off the .xmp option in preferences if you like. This way the issue will go away. If you go to "edit>preferences then select the "media", you can then uncheck the "write xmp ID files on import" option and also for disable the other XMP option right next to it. Then it will stop doing this at least, sorry I don't have a answer for what is causing the issue though, although I would like to attempt to figure one out.
What version of Premiere cs6 are you using?
Also is it only happening with the same exact two files every time? (Basically I'm wondering do other files XMP's cause issues like this specific one does?)
If it is only this one specific file that is causing the problem I'd probably say it's safe to guess that something about that file is just corrupted, and that is probably what is causing the problem.
The other possible work-around though is you can use a .MTS clip merger program that will join the files together rather than using Premiere media browser to join the two seperate clips and see if the .xmp issue stops.
Because cs6 currently has known bugs with AVCHD spanned media. The clip merger works really quickly too, because it doesn't actually encode the media it only merges them. It's also free and simple to use which is always a obvious plus side as well. If you'd like to try it here is the link where you can get it from.
http://vontraining.net/download/

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