Export Dialog Box doesn’t like dots in paths

is therefore only useful for working with Adobe Products, and any other software that has this unfortunate design flaw

By @seanmcnally98

That was my point, and not as a Premiere-only statement: Eliminating special characters from your filenames will help you/your workflow interact more easily with different teams, storage devices, and software. I'm not saying "you must do this," but it really is an easy way to avoid potential headaches down the road.

To be clear though: yeah, bugged behavior like this should of course be fixed - especially considering Adobe products themselves will include dots in their filenames (snapshots in Premiere, for example). Was simply providing a workaround that's useful beyond this instance. I'm not going to bat for a glitch... especially in a subsciption-based software! (which, they've marked this as acknowledged, and are hopefully working on it)

PS - based on your initial post, you may get some use out of this free plugin that allows you to select absolute or relative-to-project export paths: https://knightsoftheeditingtable.com/compass

Thank you for your suggestion Hutch, but I'd like to point out that macOS, Linux, and Windows all allow dots as legal characters in filenames, so long as they are not at the beginning or end. Your suggestion is that I avoid them as a matter of practice, not only in file names but in any path that might dare find itself called upon in Premiere Pro, is therefore only useful for working with Adobe Products, and any other software that has this unfortunate design flaw. Working around bugs and changing my workflow because Adobe's engineers didn't plan for naming conventions that the world's most utilized operating systems have had no issue supporting for decades, is not what I pay $60 a month for. 

Hi, while Adobe Engineers may be able to change this behavior in an update, its generally best practice to not include special characters in your filenames. Most best practice guidelines will include a note like this:
     Avoid special characters, such as: ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) ` ; : < > ? . , [ ] { } ' " |

Its a gamble to predict how different programs and operating systems will interperet special characters, so best to leave them out if possible. I would recommend simply changing your periods to hyphens(-) or underscores(_), OR segmenting out such that you know what each part of the filename means - i.e. "2024.08.31 Interview.mp4" becomes "20240831_Interview.mp4" - and you know that the first 8 characters are the date, which is separated from the rest of the filename with an underscore.

There’s some general buggy behavior when it comes to dots in paths, but this is the one bug I can consistently reproduce:

• Issue - Unexpected behavior when the path you intend to export to has periods in it
• Adobe Premiere Pro version number: 24.6.0 (Build 86)
• Operating system – Windows 10
• System Info: CPU, GPU, RAM, HD:
• CPU: Intel Core i7
• GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
• GPU driver (PC): Version 536.99
• RAM: 32GB
• Hard Drive: Footage on Sandisk Extreme SSD External via USB type A 3.1, Samsung EVO internal running OS
• Video format: H.264, but bug occurs even when no footage is involved, just graphics
• Workflow details: Nothing specific, this happens on very basic timelines.
• Steps to reproduce - (Very important!) 

1. Inside a project, create a new sequence, name it “My Sequence”
2. For demonstration purposes, put an element inside the sequence, such as a black video or essential graphics element, just so we have something to export.  An h.264 video will work as well if you have one.
3. Go to the export screen, either by going to File > Export, clicking on the Export Tab, or using a keyboard shortcut
4. If your last exported preset is Match Source – Adaptive High Bitrate or similar, the suggested file name will be “My Sequence.mp4”, mirroring your sequence’s name.
5. Under “Location”, navigate to a folder with dots in it.  In my case, this is D:\Tyler Fischer\2024.08.19 Kill Tony\Exports
6. The suggested file name will change to “2024.08.mp4”

• Expected result – The suggested file name should have stayed “My Sequence.mp4”
• Actual result -  The suggested file name changed to “2024.08.mp4”, seeming to mirror the path I’m exporting to.

Also, I know this is unrelated, but in the around 20 minutes it took me to write all this up, this forum auto-logged me out, and I had to start all over again.  Not cool.