Project manager loses audio waveform

Using the Project Manager feature in Premiere 8.1, to trim and collect assets to a new folder, I noticed that my audio waveform displays are no longer visible for all footage. Only one piece of footage shows the waveform, but all others do not. The audio plays back fine, but the waveform graphic does not display in either the timeline or the source monitor. Is there a way to re-generate these waveforms?

After closing the project, quitting and restarting Premiere and reopening the project (a couple times) the project sequences finally re-drew the audio waveforms. I have seen delays in waveform generation when receiving projects from other editors. This particular project only contained a couple sequences with single test files ranging 3 to 5 seconds in length, so I expected them to redraw fairly quickly. So, it finally worked, but required quitting Premiere and re-opening/closing the project file a few times to generate audio waveforms.

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