Yeah I've done that before and premiere is pretty good about getting files as long as they've only been moved or folders have been renamed. There's no way it appears of having premiere find for example "MVI_7402.MOV" if it's been renamed to "01_Paris_20141025.MOV" or something. I think it would be fairly simple for them to add the ability to locate media based on file size / clip length / date created etc as it's highly unlikely you'll have two clips with exactly the same file size. I don't really know what's involved in adding that feature but it'd be useful. For the moment I've just replaced all of my files with the backed up files which have the original name and going forward when I ingest footage I will immediately rename and add metadata before using the clips in any projects. If it were a few clips, manually would've been fine I'd just renamed thousands of clips without thinking of the consequences haha…
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