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Participating Frequently
November 29, 2022
Question

All of my premiere projects disappeared

  • November 29, 2022
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So I was editing some footage for a new project and experiencing some lag issues. I assumed it was the hard drive and copied the file to a faster SSD. When I reopen premiere, all of my projects are gone. Not just the one I was editing but all of them. This was on version 23.0

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Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 30, 2022

If you have reset preferences all references to the project will be removed from the home page.

Hit the OPEN PROJECT button and navigate to the folder the project resides.

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

Have had the exact same problem... All projects from the last year are gone - autosave drectories don't exist - no trace of any work!

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

Sure, I can attach screenshots now. I have checked the 22.0 and 23.0 folders in the Premiere folder, but the .prproj files weren't there. There used to be a complete list of videos here, but the only ones there now are the ones I created today to replace the two ones I needed earlier.

Community Expert
November 30, 2022

It seems to me that what has happened is that your files have lost the link of the directory where they are hosted and they are offline. You must relink the files. Could you show with screenshots to get a better picture of what might be happening?

Byron.
Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

Yeah, about the file, I was talking about the video file, not premiere. I also started this project on this version of premiere.

Community Expert
November 29, 2022

Try to look them up in autosave folders and check your project file location from project manager.

It is always best to collect files from the project manager when copying from storage to another storage.

You can keep your previous working version of Premiere Pro and install the new one for testing fresh new projects.