I have an assembly that has a sub-assembly within it. The assembly resides in Folder A and the sub-assembly resides in Folder B. Both folders are mutually exclusive but do exist at the same structure level. I.E. the folders are peers.
Nothing is in cache or in session. I have Erased Not Displayed, I have no Search Paths in my current session config. But when I open the assembly from folder A, Creo magically...somehow knows to go and get the sub-assembly from folder B. That should not be happening in Creo. If I were working in Solidworks, I would not be surprised.
I have been doing this Creo stuff for quite some time and I have not had this happen.