AP is absolutely horrid to use..

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April 13, 2026
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I can’t be the only one going through this, but whenever i save a project and then reopen it, 20% of the times it doesn’t load the sequence with it and my whole project is lost. I’m also running into an issue where when i open a project is has clips and files from previous projects inside of it even though i start fresh every time i start a new project. I spent hours creating BINS to have files in just to have them all gone when opening a save that i had saved minutes before.

Averdahl

Community Expert

This is odd and i would start with to not save any project in the default folder Premiere suggests, iow the Documents folder. Save your project on your 2TB disk instead and see if it helps. The Documents folder is synced by OneDrive and it has been problematic before.

And beware of that you can open multiple projects in Premiere and this can easy and fast become a mess when one think that Project A just has been saved while it was Project B or C that got saved. This will create what you see, iow saves that never happened and thus opens up as project that appears to miss things such as bins and timelines. That may be the issue, or not.

Since the behaviour you describe is not normal trashing the Preferences is the first to do when Premiere acts odd. Launch Premiere while holding down the Shift-key and select “Reset app preferences” and click Continue. If that doesnt help, uninstall Premiere using the Download and run the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool and re-install it again.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Wow ... that’s a mess for sure. But I can’t replicate on either my destop or laptop. For troubleshooting, data matters. So ... I’m running a 24 core Ryzen 3960x, 128GB of RAM and a 2080Ti ... dual internal Nvme drives, one for OS/apps, the other all cache files, and 8 internal SSDs for media/projects. Win 10, though I’m upgrading to 11 on Wednesday. My laptop is a 2019 Predator Triton with the laptop 2080 in it, it’s on Win11 now, and it still runs Premiere without troubles.

I run heavily BRAW and ProRes, some mov and mp4, not too many phone files but some. Some separate audio and therefore multicam involved, 85% is via my main Production in Premiere, the rest in standalone projects. Mainly testing of various things.

So ... what’s your OS/hardware/media, in specific detail, effects used, and how many assets per project typically?

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

BizzleZX10RAuthor

Participating Frequently

Currently running GeForce RTX 5070ti, 64gb of RAM, 2 TB m.2 with a intel i9 14900KF. Windows 11 pro. Also using ProRes. While i’m using the program it seems to be fine (unless i have a crash) but saving projects has been the most infuriating part. Everything i look up points to “it’s open you just have to find it” which is the stupidest answer as my sequence bar is still there, but it doesn’t load my timeline/clips/edits. It only opens the project files.. or some project files with no bins.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Where are you saving to? That of course also matters. As do the file/folder permissions settings, and whether you have something like OneDrive or Dropbox accessing that same drive folder setup.

Any of the web-syncing apps can cause issues as they modify the file headers every time they look at a file to see if it needs syncing, so they know when they last touched it. That can confuse Premiere.

So if you use those, do not put your projects and the media you are actively using in Premiere, as that can cause problems. The virtual drive of LucidLink is a blessed and superior alternative, but of course, not a free one.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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