Relinking Media everytime I open a project

Hi @JanVdB - Is your virtual “internal” disk formatted differently from your external SSD? Just to make sure I understand: your media is on your 😧 drive, and when opening Premiere Pro, relinking takes a while. But when you mount a virtual disk stored on the 😧 drive, Premiere relinks everything immediately is that correct?

Hi,

I posted that earlier in this thread:

Update: I created a "virtual internal disk part" on one of my external SSD's, copy/pasted a few movs there and replaced these movs instead of the versions on the real external SSD's and... that works fine.

So the "solution" is to trick Premiere/Windows in to thinking that the external SSD is an internal SSD...

But of course that is not a great solution for the longer run...

In Windows disk manager you can create a Virtual Disk Part on any disk, internal or external, and then Windows points that part of the disk as "internal". When putting movs on that disk part, Premiere didn't have to link the files and everything ran smoothly (altough in reality the files were also on the external SSD connected through USBC)

HI @JanVdB - when you say "this afternoon I tricked Windows into thinking the external SSD was internal,"  What does this mean?

this afternoon I tricked Windows into thinking the external SSD was internal, and then there was no problem then, there was no auto-relinking

disk speed:

Hi @JanVdB -  Thanks for reaching out. Could you share a screenshot of the read/write speeds you’re seeing on your external drive? That will help us understand if the drive performance might be a factor.

When opening a project, Premiere Pro will need to relink your media, and the time it takes can vary depending on the number of files in the project and the drive’s performance.

Brand new project and it also occurs when I open older projects.

Pr is on internal C drive

I don't want to relink myself, but Premiere automatically starts relinking media everytime I open a project, It doesn't give the warning that files are missing, it just starts relinking Media by itself in the upper right corner in the Progress Dashboard.

But only with files that are onn external SSD's. But I had no issues before.

Preferences:

Hi @JanVdB - Is this a brand new project in 25.5 or an upgraded project from a previous version?  Does this happen if you create a brand new project?  Do you have Media Analysis & Transcription enabled in your preferences?  Is Premiere installed on your internal C: drive?  Have you tried relinking through file explorer?

Hi Jamie,

Windows 11, version 24H2, all latest updates

Windows 11 Home Build: 26100.6584

Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.234.0

MSI Vector 17 HX A14VIG

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900HX (2.20 GHz) 32,0 GB RAM

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU Laptop, latest drivers and updates via Nvidia app

External SSD's are Samsung T9 1000MB/s

So all footage is on external SSD, Pr software of course on C drive. I have a seprate fast SSD for Cache (500GB reserved) I have empties the cache.

Pr makes .pek files over and over again.

When opening any project (they are all on ext SSD's), Pr relinks media every single time, and it takes minutes...

I'm using Media Browser for importing.

The relinking is done automatically by Pr.

Jan

screenvideos:

https://f.io/c-PBSYZZ

Update: I created a "virtual internal disk part" on one of my external SSD's, copy/pasted a few movs there and replaced these movs instead of the versions on the real external SSD's and... that works fine.

So the "solution" is to trick Premiere/Windows in to thinking that the external SSD is an internal SSD...

But of course that is not a great solution for the longer run...