Project won't save in CS4

When attempting to save a project, I occasionally can't save my file and receive an error message suggesting "Select 'Save as' from the file menu to save the project to a new location." This usually doesn't work, either. Often, I just use the last auto-save file (which doesn't even appear to be saving every time the auto-save box appears, but that's another story) and redo the lost work.
I've had this happened on two different projects. One is a miniDV project, another was 720p HDV. Each project had a sequence roughly an hour long. Is there something I should do to avoid this? This current project file is 286MB. Is that unusual?
Premiere Pro CS4, 8GB RAM, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, projects are on eSATA drives
Thanks,
JB

OK, could be a couple of things:
Do you have Windows Indexing turned ON for that drive, or for any drives for that matter? This ARTICLE will give you some background.
Do you have adequate defragmented, free space on your destination HDD?
Which version of CS4 do you have? Seems that CS4.2 fixed a similar issue.
Those are the first three thoughts, and maybe others will have more.
Good luck,
Hunt

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Cannot save PPro CS4 project created on another PC
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