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The relinking process is compromising the work

Forum|Forum|17 days ago
August 3, 2026
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I'm having the same problem. I have large projects with a lot of media, organized in a production, and every time we open Premiere the media relinking process takes several minutes. The media is on a Qnap NAS unit with excellent read and write speed; each project's caches are being directed to the HDs of the editing workstations.

We've already tried deleting the caches, redirecting them to the NAS, removing the projects from the production, and disabling media analysis — none of these attempts resolved or reduced the media relinking time. We are loading additional metadata into some "dynamic media" fields to optimize our searches, but we've also tested projects without inserting metadata and we have the same problem.

We are using 3 workstations: Mac Studio, M4 Max, M2 Max, and M1 Max, connected on a 10GB network with proper cabling and electrical protection.

We are starting a large project, and because of this issue we are reevaluating our use of Adobe Premiere. We've had previous experience with production and a very similar machine setup and had excellent results. Any ideas on how to solve this?

mattchristensen1

Community Manager

@dois_barbas_2762 there are two issues here, and I want to understand the second one better. The first is that it’s taking a long time to relink. The second one is that you are having to relink every time you open Premiere. Do you know why that’s happening? Are media files on the QNAP being moved, or folders renamed?

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dois_barbas_2762Autor

Participant

Hello!
The delay for the first relink is expected in large projects, and we are already dividing the media into smaller projects to have a better workflow. However, as you mentioned, our problem is that the relink is done every time we close and open a project.

We have already explored many network configurations, disabled media analysis, etc.
The media are always saved in the same volume and folder structure.
Even though the connection to the NAS is not dynamic, we remain connected all the time and avoid restarting the machines.

KatieToo

Community Manager

Hi @dois_barbas_2762

Thanks for stopping by the Premiere forums! Sorry for any frustration you’re having with this QNAP NAS and Productions issue. I appreciate you giving us the specs on setup and more details about your NAS, as well.

In order to help better troubleshoot with our bug report details. can you please let us know what version and build of Premiere you’re currently using?

Also with the various Macs involved, which macOS and version are those?

Hope to help,
Katie

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dois_barbas_2762Autor

Participant

We are using macOS 26.5.2 and Premiere 26.3.
Because of this difficulty, we are already working with smaller projects, yet the way it is done every time a project is opened compromises the editing workflow, especially when we need to access media in different projects.
The last time we worked with this same configuration was in 2024, so it was probably version 24.

KatieToo

Community Manager

@dois_barbas_2762 Appreciate that additional information. They’re aware of this issue and currently investigating, and I wanted that to add your issue onto the bug report. Once I receive any update, I’ll return here and let you know.

Thanks again for your time reporting on this!
Katie

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