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dois_barbas_2762
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Aug 3, 2026 8:15 PM UTC
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The relinking process is compromising the work

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?

      Pinned Reply By KatieToo

      Updating this post for all here: It appears there’s a fix available to try in Premiere Beta v27, with v27.1 recently out and then later in a release version. Thank you for your patience while our engineering team fixed this issue.

      If you’re still encountering any trouble related to this, can you please reply and briefly list your OS such as Mac/what type & chip plus macOS, or if PC and if win11/10 plus driver version and build, and we’ll take another look into it.

      We appreciate your effort and time reporting on this issue!
      Katie

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      KatieToo
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      Oct 5, 2026 3:25 PM UTC

      Updating this post for all here: It appears there’s a fix available to try in Premiere Beta v27, with v27.1 recently out and then later in a release version. Thank you for your patience while our engineering team fixed this issue.

      If you’re still encountering any trouble related to this, can you please reply and briefly list your OS such as Mac/what type & chip plus macOS, or if PC and if win11/10 plus driver version and build, and we’ll take another look into it.

      We appreciate your effort and time reporting on this issue!
      Katie

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        shaun o connor
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        Oct 3, 2026 6:47 PM UTC

        I'm having the same issue on Windows 11 with Premiere Pro 26.5.2.

        I'm editing a feature film (roughly 24TB) on 2 external drives. As of a few days ago, every time I open the project, Premiere needs 10 - 15 mins relinking media, and still chugging away in the background long after the the relinking is at 100%, with many clips showing Media Pending until the process eventually finishes.

        Once everything has loaded, the project generally works normally. But it’s frustratingly slow, and I can’t start editing smoothly until it’s completely done. Before this issue the entire project would be loaded and editable within under a minute.

        I've tried clearing the media cache, disabling third-party plugins, tried new/Save As project files (which worked for 24 hours before the issue started again) and rolled back from 26.5.2 to 26.5.1, with no improvement. The media hasn't moved and this project previously opened normally.

        This seems to be a known ongoing issue with v26 -- is there any hope of getting it fixed?

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        KatieToo
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        Oct 5, 2026 3:26 PM UTC

        ​@shaun o connor Sorry for this frustration. Please see the new pinned comment and reply if you’re still having issues. They have been making recent improvements to relinking and hopefully trying v27.1 Beta will help clear that, but if not, do let us know!

        Thanks for your report!
        Katie

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          mattchristensen1
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          Aug 4, 2026 9:36 AM UTC

          ​@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_2762Author
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          Aug 4, 2026 12:23 PM UTC

          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.

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          KatieToo
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          KatieTooCommunity Manager
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          Aug 3, 2026 8:41 PM UTC

          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_2762Author
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            Aug 3, 2026 10:12 PM UTC

            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.
             

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              KatieToo
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              Aug 3, 2026 10:28 PM UTC

              ​@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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