ok i'll start doing that, but is there a fix otherwise? AE never used to do this. ... View more

In fact, yesterday I spent a few hours going through maybe 8 projects I'd been working on in November, and hadn't touched since. Hadn't moved the files, deleted or renamed anything, just left them untouched. Yesterday I had to go through each one and relink each file as if it were missing media....  ... View more

It also happens with collected projects—it occurs after i don't touch a project for a few days (even if I've collected and reduced).  i dont' think it's the hyphens in the filenames either, as it happens with long and short filenames, with and wihtout hypens/underscores. I can't remember when it started, but suspect last year sometime, and i just put it in the 'deal with it later' pile. I had assumed it was common error, that perhaps after some time there'd be a patch to sort it out. No problems with any other program for source files (ai, psd, quicktime, etc.). I"ve been using Ae for maybe 20 years, and this is worst bug I've seen.... (if it is a bug?) I thought everyone else would be experiencing it too?  ... View more

actually there is often this error as well: with file name backwards. ... View more

Yes maybe volume, if this is not a common issue. Media types are standard: jpg, png, eps, psd, svg, mov etc. Nothing special. No special characters, nothing unusal in naming. Cache is on an external SSD, to 300gb. Everything else is local HD. 64Gig RAM, 36 for AE, no other applications open (except safari and slack). Not sure where I can what hardware acceleration settings i have? 2 main error messager per asset: ... View more

hi there thanks for the info: we have spent some time with the adobe/premiere consultant, and solved some of the issues: we had duplicate locations for assets, so returned that to default (adobe needs to put that as an option somewhere). also we did CMD+SHIFT+OPTION to reset preferences, which has fixed some of the bugs.  we also updated to the latest premiere (last week) which has helped. ... View more

hmm ok: i dont think i have an app as such, but i found this (it's not the problem, but i figure the first two steps could help), Solution to the issue: Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries panel doesn't load in desktop products  ---not going to touch the host file until i know what that's about. also, last night a new update to premiere was released, which might help with some of the bugs: so i'm hoping the combined steps might solve a few bugs for us. Premiere Pro 12.1.2 Update | Adobe Blog ... View more

oh yes: thankyou very helpful: but how do i make sure CC library is running? it looks like it might not be. ... View more

hi there: is there a MAC fix for this?? we are having library issues as well, and this sounds like a good start. If you open Task Manager is the CCLibrary.exe process running? ... View more