Losing renders after deleting empty tracks

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I have rendered a very render-intensive layer on my Timeline consisting of Timeline FX segments, but then realised that there are a few empty layers below that are just taking space and I don’t need them. When I deleted them, the whole layer became unrendered. Why is that? Is there any way to delete empty tracks not affect the render on the layer above? Or am I now stuck with empty layers?

Also, if I want to move some of the clips down onto a track below, the same thing happens. I don’t change the clips, just move them down.

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It’s a pain, this. Instead of drag + drop selection, use nudge:
SHIFT+ALT+arrow keys (smoke hotkeys)

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Thank you, I will try this.

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If you have Action timeline effects and have “Use Back” turned on it will unrender when you remove tracks below. If you aren’t comping with Action turn this off.

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I’ve got this setting off, but it still unrenders clips on empty track deletion.