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oojafink
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June 22, 2020
Question

Media Browser stops automatically refreshing directory list

  • June 22, 2020
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Hello

 

I am running PP 14.0.4 on Windows 10. I keep all my source media in one folder "Files" and usually have this selected in Media Browser. When I download additional files to the "Files" folder, they do not automatically appear in the directory list. I either have to navigate to a different folder and then back again to "File", or select "Refresh".

 

I don't think this is a 'design feature' because if I close and re-open the project, the auto-refresh does work, but after some time stops and I have to revert to manually refreshing.

Would be good to know why the auto-refresh stops working after a while and how it could potentially be fixed. 

 

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    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    June 22, 2020

    Like everything else in Premiere, the Media Browser loads what it sees on launch, and does NOT refresh until you close and reopen a project or the program. So when you launch Premiere and select a project file, it will show the presets and things like what's 'in' the Media Browser when you point it at a folder on disc. It will not refresh what it shows.

     

    So what you're seeing is the actual normal operation of the program. It will refresh every time you open a project file, or with Media Browser, when you point it to a different folder.

     

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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      oojafinkAuthor
      Participant
      June 22, 2020

      Understood. But then why does it auto-refresh the directory list for a given period, and then stop? 

       

      Also, I am running 12.1.2 on a Mac and that auto-refreshes all the time without me ever having to re-launch the app or project in order for newly added files to the directory to be shown. 

      Is the auto-refresh behaviour therefore abnormal behaviour and myself and my colleagues who experience the same behaviour are just 'lucky'?


        R Neil Haugen
        R Neil Haugen
        Legend
        June 22, 2020

        I don't recall the MediaBrowser ever 'auto-refreshing' unless I'd done something in it, or had a process going like proxy generation that has the MediaBrowser involved.

         

        Neil

        Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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