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

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.