Relinking Media everytime I open a project

Hi, 

I’ve solved the problem copying all the files of the project to a SSD drive. But still do that thing of analyse the media but in less time. 

A friend of mine told me you have to unlink this in the preference and turn off the media analysis. Didn’t try it yet.

Having the same issue here, every time I re-open a project it relinks and gets stuck on about 99%, I’ll import that individual file manually and it will appear on the timeline but Premiere still won’t recognise that it has been imported and continue trying to relink. Have also tried deleting the finels from the project folder and re-importing but Premiere still processes the ‘relink’ separately. 
Incredibly frustrating considering this is now the longest part in my workflow, taking up to 30 minutes in some instances (if it completes it at all).

Same issue, working on a Samsung T5 with a project I’ve been working on for the past two days. 

same issue!!! im on premiere 26.0.2 wix an m5 max and now my footage wont play because of this linking issue. I’ve tried to creat e a new project, it doesnt work for me

By the way: Adobe After Effects doesn't have this issue, all projects and assets load fast.

Hi,

I'm still having the same issue.

For me it is still a thing between ExFat and NTFS.

The solution for me: since the issue, I bought an extea external SSD and I formatted that as NTFS. I now start all my new projects on that SSD and everything works just fine.

Any old project that I open, that is on ExFat SSD's (project file and assets) keeps taking forever to load the media, and I don't even have very large projects, let's say around 10 ProRes files of each 5 minutes of footage.

When duplicating an old "slow" project to the NTFS SSD, project file and assets, and opening the project from the NTFS SSD, all is working perfectly.

When starting a new project file and assets on a ExFat SSD, the issue remains...

So for me it is still a thing of Disk Format...

Hope the issue can be resolved someday.

Meanwhile I just slowly change my workflow to NTFS and within time I can arrchive old project files so that I can clean my current SSD's and reformat them and re-use them.

Thank you

Jan

Hi @dimimiles - I appreciate you taking the time to share those details. You mentioned that importing everything into a new project resolved the issue, which is really helpful to know. I’m just trying to better understand what might have caused the behavior you were seeing, so any additional information you can share would be greatly appreciated.

@jamieclarke the project originally was not created in an older version of Premiere Pro.

Hi @dimimiles - Was this project originally created in an older version of Premiere Pro?

I was referring to the fact that relinking media is a normal part of the process when opening a project.  it’s part of how the application verifies file paths and media availability. This process can take longer on projects with a large number of files, which is why many users working with extensive media libraries find the Productions workflow helpful for improving performance.