You can tell Emacs to set a buffer as not modified (even though it may well be) by pressing M-~, also bound to M-x not-modified. This will obviously suppress any save prompts for that file – at least until you do something that makes it become modified again – so do be careful.
How to mark a buffer as "not modified"
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