I do not have the default animations in the default anim folder. I modified my player class's create() to overwrite the default settings as in the "character default animations" tutorial, but the program still tries to find these defaults. Can I get it to stop checking?

no, it is internally called inside Chr::create
please leave the files, then after creating chr object, update the animation settings

Wait, so even if we don't use ANY of the default animations we have to include all those files? That's bad.

it's 200KB so its not big fuss

you don't need to if you have pro license