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Production259595333ptm
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July 24, 2026

Network drive files are not relinking automatically and takes forever to load any preview of any folder.

  • July 24, 2026
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I’ve never had any problems using a network attached storage with any other software except Premiere.
It is ultimately the biggest pain and hinders my work when it decides to forget where all of my footage and assets were.

I store all footage on my local NAS and it is always connected to my workstation via physical network connection.
The project file I’m working on now has decided to forget that i have a NAS and all of my assets are offline.
I tried to re-link them, but it cannot automatically relink for the 1000+ assets that it cannot find.

I must add that the re-linking user-experience is the worst. It takes a minimum of 10 seconds to an average of 20 seconds for a folder load any contents when browsing using Premiere’s media browser.
Selecting media with ‘Automatically re-link media’ enabled does not automatically relink the footage or assets on the NAS.
This needs a proper update or rewritten function for an acceptable solution, not a band-aid or workaround.

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      Amy the Stuv
      Community Manager
      Amy the StuvCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      July 24, 2026

      Hello ​@Production259595333ptm 

       

      Welcome to the Premiere Forums. We need a little more information to help us identify the issue. Please see How do I write a bug report? for our preferred format.

       

      It can also help us to know a little about your project. Are you using a Production? What’s the file size of your Project? Are you saving the Project to the same drive as the Media?

       

      Thank you for bringing this to our attention,

      Amy

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      dois_barbas_2762
      Participant
      July 31, 2026

      I'm having the same problem. I have large projects with a lot of media, organized in a production, and every time we open Premiere the media relinking process takes several minutes. The media is on a Qnap NAS unit with excellent read and write speed; each project's caches are being directed to the HDs of the editing workstations.

      We've already tried deleting the caches, redirecting them to the NAS, removing the projects from the production, and disabling media analysis — none of these attempts resolved or reduced the media relinking time. We are loading additional metadata into some "dynamic media" fields to optimize our searches, but we've also tested projects without inserting metadata and we have the same problem.

      We are using 3 workstations: Mac Studio, M4 Max, M2 Max, and M1 Max, connected on a 10GB network with proper cabling and electrical protection.

      We are starting a large project, and because of this issue we are reevaluating our use of Adobe Premiere. We've had previous experience with production and a very similar machine setup and had excellent results. Any ideas on how to solve this?

      Amy the Stuv
      Community Manager
      Amy the StuvCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      August 3, 2026

      Hi ​@dois_barbas_2762 

       

      It can help us to know what version of Premiere you are on now, and what version you had that previously worked. We also need to know the Mac OS of the systems.

       

      It also may be worth looking at the projects and seeing if you can split the larger projects up into multiple smaller projects. Productions works best when there are many smaller projects than with a few big projects. 

       

      We are currently investigating a relinking issue with NAS and knowing your Premiere versions would be most helpful.

       

      Thank you for any and all information, and sorry for the issues,

      Amy

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