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Inspiring
Sep 15, 2025 8:15 AM UTC
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Relinking Media everytime I open a project

Hi,

 

I have the latest Pr 25.5.0 on Windows 11.

Everytime I open any project file, Pr starts "relinking the media files" again, and it takes ages...

My assets are on very fast external SSD's, also my Cache designated SSD is fast and external.

I've been working this way since a year now and it was blazing fast.

But now it all stopped, I think with the newest Pr version.

No idea what happened...

 

Jan

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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Oct 1, 2025 10:05 AM UTC

Let's hope on a solution soon 😉

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Participant
Oct 1, 2025 9:46 AM UTC

I have the same issue on a Mac computer with all files located on an internal hard drive.

According to the search results, it's a prevalent issue that affects individuals with both older and newer builds. Adobe has been unable to provide a solution to this problem for an extended period.

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jamieclarke
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Sep 30, 2025 1:47 PM UTC

Hi @JanVdB - You mentioned this happened a few days ago.  Did you recently update your PC?  The operating system's exFAT driver implementation can affect performance, I wonder if this is what is happening.

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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 30, 2025 3:02 PM UTC
Hi,

I just checked all drivers and updates, everything seems to be up-to-date.

Jan
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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 30, 2025 1:38 PM UTC

Hi,

any news? I'm still having the same issue.

 

Jan

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Sep 19, 2025 12:51 PM UTC

Hi @JanVdB - Can you check one more thing for me.  In Preferences > Media do you have "Growing Files" checked?  If so can you uncheck it and let us know if that helps.

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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 19, 2025 1:28 PM UTC
Hi,

It is and was unchecked.

Thank you
Jan
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jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
Sep 16, 2025 12:12 PM UTC

Hi @JanVdB - Thanks for the test results.  You mentioned this happened a few days ago.  Did you recently update your PC?  The operating system's exFAT driver implementation can affect performance, I wonder if this is what is happening.

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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 16, 2025 12:07 PM UTC

Hi Jamie,

 

I did a few tests.

On different drives, I created the same folder structure, I copied the same video files on, every disk, I created a Premiere Project file on every disk, all differente projects but with the same content. Using the same .Mov Prores444 files, all around 3 to 6GB sized, HD1920x1080 

 

Here are my results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hz1LSAw6v17Ettbz4OmBr0IgEVryOLbfgpC-v-qDEYo/edit?usp=sharing

 

Hope you can figure it out?

For now it seems Premiere is not liking exFat formatting anymore, but why is that? Few days ago: there wasn't a problem at all.

 

Should I try to downgrade to Pr 2024 to check?

 

Jan

 

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
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Sep 15, 2025 6:43 PM UTC

Hi @JanVdB - Thanks for confirming the format.   

 

Was your media in the same folder structure as the SSD in the virtual environment?

 

It would be helpful if you have another external driver that is formatted as FAT32 to test.

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jamieclarke
Community Manager
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Sep 15, 2025 5:56 PM UTC

Hi @JanVdB -  Is your virtual “internal” disk formatted differently from your external SSD?

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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 15, 2025 6:08 PM UTC
Yes, I think so, I think it is NTFS instead of FAT32 cause I didn’t have the option for FAT
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JanVdBAuthor
Inspiring
Sep 15, 2025 5:53 PM UTC

Yes, that is correct, thanks

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