Hi,
Just a quick one (for a change 
), I am testing some speed realted configs on our machines before we go ahead and get new hardware and am having a little trouble getting my head around "Collecting files" <-- which I thought was pretty simple till now.
I have a project saved on our server (footage etc was originally collected to this location) and once opened, I removed a few comps and unused layers etc. I did a "Reduce", saved, and then collected the files to my local drive. I closed the Comp. I re-opened it from my local drive, but when I right click a footage file and select "Reveal in Explorer" - I am taken back to the server drive. I then broke the network connection between my PC and the network, rechecked, and the location then shows my local hard drive.
I took this one step further, and collected the files into another location on my hard drive. When I reveal the footage, it goes to the original location. I then closed all, renamed the old folder, opened the newly saved project and saw that the files were now "revealed" in this new location. I closed the Comp, renamed the original location to its original name, opened the new comp, and it was pointing back to the original locations.
I always thought that collecting files created a new copy of your project, along with all source (excluding third party plug ins and fonts) and then used this as the new location for all its files. Am I understanding this wrong, or have I made a mistake during my testing process?
Pierre