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MeKevinB
MeKevinB
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July 15, 2023
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Premiere Pro Not Letting Go Of External Drives

  • July 15, 2023
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I'm not sure if this is a Prmiere Pro issue or a macOS issue. I generally work in Premiere Pro off of a very fast NVMe SSD drive. No issue there. I have a few projects on the NVMe drive and some on the internal system drive. I CMD+S to save latest changes to the project on the external SSD and close the project. I'm now looking at the home screen of Premiere Pro. No projects are open. Every time I attempt to eject the external drive in macoS Finder I'm greeted with a message saying the drive cannot be ejected because Premiere Pro is using it. That's a lie because I have no projects open. Something under the hood is not truly releasing access to the drive when it should be and while it's not an Earth-shattering problem it can get highly annoying when it happens multiple times a week. Premiere Pro has to be completely shut down before the drive can be ejected properly. Screenshot attached for reference.

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Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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July 20, 2023

I'm a Windows guy, not a Mac guy. Does Activity Monitor show what is open?

Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
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July 15, 2023

When looking at premiere's home screen that also means Premiere is active.

MeKevinB
MeKevinBAuthor
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July 19, 2023

Thanks for the reply, Ann. You see what I'm saying though, right? Think of it in reverse. If the external drive is connected before launching Premiere Pro, I then launch Premiere Pro without opening a project (it would be listed as a recently opened project on the home screen), I could then eject the drive again without any error. I wouldn't get a message saying it can't be ejected. For all intents and purposes, when a project living on an external drive is closed in Premiere Pro, that insinuates that the drive can then be ejected. When you look at it that way, it says that somewhere under the hood in Premiere it's not really closing the project fully, or at the very least not releasing access to the external drive.

Peru Bob
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Peru BobCommunity Expert
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July 19, 2023

There is probably something on that drive that Premiere Pro is accessing.

Do you have Sync turned off?

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