What solved it was to disconnect all USB devices from the computer: external hard drives, USB drives, external DVD burner, and external floppy drive reader. They have all been connected from a few days to a few months. disconnect and reboot and everything worked. What gave it away was that attempting to unstall all of Adobe products locked up halfway through indicating that Adobe was in a fight with the computer. (plugged everything back in after reboot and all was OK)

peterw49300033Correct answer

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DON`T CLICK ON THE LINK - IT`S SPAM...

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K6DR

Participant

Go to %APPDATA%\Adobe\Common\Essential Sound in windows explorer. Rename the file "SharedTags.json" to something like SharedTags.json-xx

Restart Premier Pro

Worked for me 🙂

firstlightm20140249

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I've spent so much time trying to fix this, several days now. Followed the many suggestions above. Nothing is working. Was in chat with Adobe customer service and even allowed tech to take control of my computer. Still will not launch and the tech crash my computer. I am so over the top frustrated!!!!!!!!!! How can there be this many threads for something and no fix from adobe???

SonicPau

Participating Frequently

Just a follow up: do you guys can export now? I mean, if I ctrl + m (or command + m) from the timeline, or same thing but from the menu, instead opening AME it stays in PP doing nothing. If I try to click anywhere I can't do anything. Have to force close PP. The only way to render something is to open AME and import PP project and timeline.

That's also very bothering.

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Jonzy

Known Participant

Beside of the obvious free advertisement, I did not used the Lock Hunter's software. I just deleted the frickin file and my Premiere Pro work again.

In my case, Premiere Pro was working fine for many days, until my computer crashed. When I rebooted I experienced the issue like everyone else here.

I deleted many personal preferences folders in my machine by thinking a file was corrupt for absolutely nothing and perhaps valuable pieces has been lost in the attempt of recovery.

Deleting the SharedTags file did the trick (and nothing to do with the software btw). Please acknowledge this.

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Anonymous

This is absolutely ridiculous and infuriating. Happens only with Premiere (not AFX) as of this AM (5 hours lost and counting...). My specs are well beyond what's needed:

Windows 10

Dual Xeon 2.40 GHz

64 GB RAM

Nvidia Quadro K5200 (driver version 411.95) 8 GB DDR5 RAM

I have tried, in no particular order:

1) Running as administrator

2) Temporarily moving the "WebM.prm" file (which is the last Loading element I see before it crashes)

3) Moving plugins one by one and wholesale from the MediaCore folder

4) Uninstalling/re-installing Premiere Pro

5) Clearing my Temp folder (except for the ones I cannot delete, even if I cancel or temporarily rename running Adobe processes)

No luck. I don't have admin rights to this machine. So setting up a new account is a non-starter. PLEASE fix this, Adobe.

CityWyde

Participant

If anyone is still having this issue

I learned to let my computer do it's thing for about 15mins after logging in. I just cut the computer on, log in, and let it sit on the desktop while I go do something. when I get back to the computer, Adobe fires right up with no problems. It hasn't failed once ever since.

I've never tried any of the other ways on this thread, so give this a try if those didn't work for you

ram.86.filmmaking

Participant

Start the program as Administrator. DONE. (no need of restart)

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therealpj

Participating Frequently

That worked for me! Thanks!

Jeff Bellune

Legend

Create a new user account and try starting Pr again from the new account. If it launches successfully, then go back to your original account and launch Pr while holding down the Shift+Alt keys. That should reset your plug-in cache and preferences. Doing that will often fix startup and other crashes in Pr.

Cheers,

Jeff

joaocverde

Participant

Thanks Jeff.

In my case I discovered short before your answer that somehow, the folders where Premiere keeps some files (on my Libraries) required administrator privileges to be accessed. I had to access those in Windows Explorer with elevated permissions beforehand, and after that Premiere (and Media Encoder too, curiously AE did not have any errors) would run OK, and since then I have rebooted and Premiere continues to launch successfully.