Help moving a project to another hard drive

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July 2, 2026
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Trying to move a project from my external HD to internal SSD because it lags on the external. I have copied the files to the SSD but can’t figure out how to run Premier to edit on the SSD. Have searched here and online for instructions with no luck. How do I do this?

Thank you

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Well, with Premiere properly installed on the system/OS drive, you simply open Premiere, then use the open project dialog to search for the .prproj file, which is the project. Doesn’t matter what drive the project is on.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Lane23499113pawoAuthor

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Thanks. That was a simple solution.

Now I am opening the project on my SSD, but it is still horribly laggy. I thought that moving it from an external to the SSD would solve that. I have cleared my cache and have the program monitor at ¼ . Has worked fine in the past.

Suggestions? Or should I make a new post?

Averdahl

Community Expert

@Lane23499113pawo Did you unplugg the external drive when you opened the moved project from your internal SSD? If not, Premiere will still use your external drive for the media files you have.

First delete the Media Cahce and the Media Cahce database > Unplug the external drive > Open from the internal SSD and relink media in Premiere when asked.

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