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Sven_Ravensbergen
Sven_Ravensbergen
Participant
March 8, 2026
Question

Adobe Premiere Relink Media on SMB Share - 2025/2025 Speed Difference

  • March 8, 2026
  • 1 reply
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Hi Adobe Team,

I’ve run into a significant performance issue with the new Premiere Pro 2026 (v26.0.1) regarding media relinking over SMB, which seems to be a clear regression compared to the 2025 (2025.6.4) version.

The Issue

In Premiere Pro 2025, the initial relink/indexing of a large project (multiple TBs) takes some time, but once the metadata is cached, subsequent launches are fast, but still takes some unnecessary time. 

In Premiere Pro 2026, this "warm-up" benefit is gone. Every single time I open the project, Premiere spends the same full duration relinking and scanning the media. It’s as if the application is failing to commit the file-path metadata to the local cache or is forcing a deep re-scan on every launch, regardless of whether the files have moved.

My Setup

I’ve tested this thoroughly on a high-end setup to rule out hardware bottlenecks:

  • Clients: New Mac Studio M4 Max (14/40-cores), 128GB RAM.

  • Network: 10GbE to clients, 100GbE uplink to the switch.

  • Configuration: MTU 9000 (Jumbo Frames) enabled throughout.

  • Storage: All-NVMe QNAP and TrueNAS (SMB shares).

Test Results & Observations

  • Initial Scan: Both 2025 and 2026 take roughly the same time for the first scan.

  • Subsequent Launches: 2025 drops to just a 15-20 seconds. 2026 stays at the original slow speed (several minutes for large projects).

  • Cache Clear: Clearing the media cache resets 2025 to the "slow" state (as expected), but after one run, it’s fast again. 2026 never gets faster.

Has anyone an idea? 

      1 reply

      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      March 9, 2026

      Hi ​@Sven_Ravensbergen -   Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.  

      Can you check this article: Turn off packet signing for SMB 2 and SMB 3 connections

      Let us know if it helps your issue.  There is always some weirdness with SMB and different versions of macOS.

      Sven_Ravensbergen
      Sven_RavensbergenAuthor
      Participant
      March 18, 2026

      Hi Jamie, 

       

      My apologies for my late reaction. 
      But unfortunately this is already the case, I have disabled this feature also in the server. 
      It is strange that there is a difference between 2 off the same versions. 

       

      Is it also normal that the system needs to relink? 
      We are doing some large shows and it is doing this every time. 
      In version 2025 it is only a minute or so, so not a big problem. (And it does it automatticly, you can see the progress in the progress bar) 
      But I was wondering if other storage manufacturers, like Elements, EditShare, SNS EVO has also this problem? Or is it just something I have? ;) 
      Or do they have some special tricks to disable this problem? 

       

       

      jamieclarke
      Community Manager
      jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      March 18, 2026

      Hi ​@Sven_Ravensbergen -  Yes, it’s normal for Premiere to verify and relink media when opening a project. If the media is on shared or network storage, that process can take a little longer.

      This isn’t specific to any particular storage manufacturer. The speed can vary depending on the network, the system, the OS version, and the number of media files in the project.

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