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Participant
September 16, 2026
Question

Why does my After effects lose media constantly?

  • September 16, 2026
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Okay so i recently bought after effects newest version to fix this problem but it still isnt fixed!
So everytime i play my project back a few times i get these errors below and honestly its getting tiring having to reload footage/readd footage/replace footage, is this a bug with everyone or just me?
All my clips are in one file, i cleared my disk cache and everything. these clips are not premier related so i dont know what other fixes may help end this issue because it is honestly very  inconvienient.

 

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ShiveringCactus
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2026

Where is your media stored?  I’ve seen this happen with network drives in the past

Participant
September 16, 2026

Network drives? Do you mean onedrive because maybe that is the issue.. My files are in a folder on my laptop but i think im using the onedrive folder to import files…