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Michael384395806ww5
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August 4, 2025

Premiere secretly connects my files to wrong clips with same name (team project)

  • August 4, 2025
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I have a team project where all file names have been copied and renamed due to duplicate names. 
I have the old footage on my drive and don't want to delete it until I know that all files work (premiere gave me issues with some of them).

I just tried to reconnect all of the hundreds of clips. For the first clips, Premiere Pro found the correct files in the folder after I clicked the first one. But the the majority, I had to go over each single clip and connect it "by hand". Each time I clicked search, it immediately found the file with the corresonding name. It just didnt want to connect it automatically.

After this long and tedious process, I just noticed that premiere pro began to connect to the old files again without my consent. Now, all the files are connected to the wrong files again.

Why? It doesn't make any sense and it drives me mad.
Why would it reconnect to some other file although the file has already been linked?

I also noticed that onedrive began to download files for some reason.
Presumably Premiere Pro (local project) started to connect to files on OneDrive instead of using the already linked clips.

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R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 5, 2025

Ouch. Personally, I get annoyed manually one-by-one relinking even if it is only two files. Any more than that, I'm kinda ... well, p-o'd ... 😉

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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Michael384395806ww5Author
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August 5, 2025

The files are on the same drive. I had a bunch of folders before.
Day 1, Day 2, ...

Since second camera created identical names, we changed the names of the clips from the second camera and put them into the folders:
CAM1, CAM2

CAM1 and CAM2 are in the same hierarchy as the other folders.

It automatically connected 40 clips or so. Then, for some reason, Premiere stopped to continue the rest of them, so I had to go through them one by one to connect them (press search, select the correctly identfied clip, press earch, ...)

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Dani_V.Community Manager
Community Manager
August 4, 2025

Hi @Michael384395806ww5, 

Thank you for reporting a problem and sorry for the frustration. Where are the files you are trying to link to located and are they in the same drive? Were the old files moved to a different location or do they remain in the same folder path they were always in? You mentioned files were renamed, do the new files have different names from the old files?

Have you checked your media mapping under Edit > Team Project > Media Management? You should be able to add this new path as a map.

Hope we can help you soon,
Dani

R Neil Haugen
R Neil Haugen
Legend
August 4, 2025

OneDrive is a difficult thing to use ... yea, tried it, left that behind.

 

If those files are not in a folder that OneDrive can touch, they should be fine. The problem is apps like OneDrive tend to make changes in file headers as they scan through to determine if there's a change and they need to re-sync the file. 

 

That change throws Premiere off.

 

It's one of the reasons we went to LucidLink, so we don't hit that kind of crud. Which is freaking annoying.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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