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One of the more significant concepts involved in working with the media inside Adobe Premiere Pro is that the Project window is not a directory, or a folder as you would see on your hard drive when you sort files and group them. The items you see in the Project window are links to the content you are using and to its original location. Editing, renaming, or even deleting a file from the Project window will have no effect on the original media file on disk.

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The Project window with sequences, bins, and source media.

On the other hand, if you move ...

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