The auto-save feature isn't working. Premier freezes.

It’s unclear what option you think Adobe took away from you; millions of users are using local SSDs, with zero issues.

No network drives means fewer potential contributing factors…

Katie’s hypothesis about Windows accessibility impacting performance, is a good one. It’d also be interesting to know in what previous Premiere version you had auto-save working without issue. 

Hi ​@Paul_Gringo 

Thanks for stopping by the Premiere forums again! In order to help troubleshoot, we do need a few more details like confirming what version/build of Premiere, since you’re on Windows 11 then what driver and build are you on, etc. with our bug report details.

Curious if you try to open a brand new project, does the same thing happen? Importantly, was there anything particular that changed when this issue started happening?

Are you getting any error messages and/or crashes when you mentioned the project corrupts? If you are, can you put your email in the crash report and let us know in DM what that is, so we can take a better look at the report.

Agree with ​@Bruce Bullis’s point of local or network, let us know.

Wanted to also alert you that we’re aware of a Windows 11 freezing issue in Premiere and currently investigating. In some cases, they have additionally identified that having Windows Accessibility on such as ‘Magnifier’ could create issues. See this post: 

Even if you did not actively turn Magnifier on, sometimes it can be toggled on from launching certain Steam games, etc. I would check on that, as well. 

Sorry for any frustrations and hope to help!
Katie

Is your auto-save saving to local storage, or network storage? 

If network...any difference in behavior, if you send auto-saves to local storage instead?