Premiere Pro CC is using all my Macintosh HD drive space when conforming footage!!

I left my computer running last night and when I came back this morning I only had 500mb left on my start up drive. When I shut down Premiere CC I started to get back the space on the drive. Searching the internet I found some solutions like cleaning the cache and setting the Media Cashe files and Media Cache Database files to my external drive, which I did. I even went back into CS6 (which I still have installed) and cleaned out the cache from there aswell. I did get all the storage space back onto my drive after doing all of this and closing Premier. But now I've opened premier again and as it is conforming the footage it is still occupying loads of space on my Mac HD startup disk. I've tried everything I've found online and nothing seems to stop it from using space up from this drive. Im using the latest version of Premier CC v7.2.1
Any suggestions greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks.

I just found this thread as i am having the same exact issue. I've set all media cache folders to my external drive too. When premiere conforms files on launch it is creating the files on my media drive but at the same time i am noticing the space on my hard drive is being reduced as well. I even did a complete wipe of my OS and reinstall. Interestingly, as was the case with pablinksi13, there were no Media Cache and Media Cache Files Folders on my system drive in the default location either. I don't have this problem on my laptop. Nor have i ever had this issue before. Was wondering if you guys have learned anything new since this thread was created. Thanks in advance.
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