Prevent InDesign loading Document Fonts

Hi,
does anybody know how to disable InDesign usinf fonts suuplied in a packaged Document Fonts folder?
We have a prepress department that receives lots files from different design agencies and the majority of these files are supplied as packaged documents. Our users open these files, work on them and then save a new version of the file in a new folder. The next time a user opens these files the fonts are then missing because the dcoument is not located with the Document Fonts folder.
We use Universal Type Server to manage all of our users fonts which works well as we can then open documents on different machines without any font issues.
I know we could rename the Document Fonts folder to something like Supplied Fonts and InDesign would not load them but I just wandered if there was a way of disabling the automatic loading of Document Fonts.
Thanks,
Nik

Agreed. This causes immense headaches for a prepress department. As a prepress operator at a large agency, having InDesign CC 2014 auto-load fonts located in the Document Fonts folder is completely idiotic. So, if I receive a packaged ID file from a client and it contain fonts that we do not own licenses to, this function no longer allows us to get the missing fonts alert, essentially enabling us to load and use fonts we don't own licenses to, without any notification. We absolutely do not want this auto-activation of fonts from the Document Fonts folder! We only recently moved from CS6 to CC 2014 and I'm dumbfounded that a company that sells fonts, and I would assume wants to ensure they are licensed properly, would enable such a process, without a way to turn it off. Is there a way to turn this function off?

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