Relinking Media everytime I open a project

Clips that are used in the timeline seams to load instantly. Only not used media needs minutes to relink. MacBook Pro M1 with insane fast SSD and a insane lame Adobe Software. So nice to work with this Software, every new version brings an issue, that keeps me from finishing my work! But, why deliver working software? The idiots (we) still pay their monthly subscriptions, …

I’ve had contact during the last months with adobe now, about this issue. We even had a video chat session, they took a lot of memory dumps and what not. This was several weeks ago, and so far, nothing. During the video call they said the relinking always have been there, it wasn't just showing in the interface, like now int he top right corner.

To me this sounds a bit weird, because during the relinking, I cant do any work since PP is working loading. This slowdown did not occur before.

I REALLY hope they take this a bit more serious and give me some feedback, because it is affecting the work a lot.

Did anyone else have any more luck?

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I’m having the same issue. When opening a project, premiere takes forever to relink the media. We’re talking anywhere between 10 minutes to 45 minutes (depending on the size of the project).

MacOS M3 Apple Silicon 26.6.2
Premiere 26.5

My files are located on an external NAS with a 10G connection. This wasn’t an issue in 2024 and has just progressively gotten worse.

Things I’ve tried:

• created a new project and copied over the project and I have the same problem. 
• Cleared the media cache
• Move the media cache from an external SSD to internal SSD
• Offline and relinked all the media manually

This happens with all projects regardless of size. The larger projects just take significantly longer. 

I also have this problem. The project is around 7TB in files (a series), and a few months back it started to do that relinking with a progress circle in the top right corner. It takes around 20 sec extra for me, so it seems it doesnt relink all the files.

Is there any solution for this yet?

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