Troublw with Batch Capture

I am currently reimporting a sequence I originally edited in ProRes Proxy from AVCHD camera originals. I have made an off line copy of the sequence in media manager with 1 sec handles. When I batch capture the new sequence log and transfer finds all the correct original clips and begins the re-import process. I can watch the mov files being created in the scratch capture folder. After each mov file is created it is then mysteriously deleted when Log and Transfer moves on to the next clip. At the end of the process the final clip is automatically deleted from the folder leaving it empty. Manually importing clips from the same mounted volumes work correctly. This problem occurs no matter what the drive array I capture to and no matter what ProRes resolution I capture in. I am on FCP Ver.7. Anybody have any ideas how to remedy this situation. Thanks.

try capturing to your startup drive as a test. if that works, I would suspect a problem with the raid.

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