Premiere Pro Playback Freezes—Warning: Scratch Disk is write protected or unavailable—Can't Export

Question

So, out of nowhere now all of a sudden my premiere pro has been freezing on the playlist when trying to scroll footage and whenever I try to open footage in the source monitor it just gives me the yellow pending screen and nothing else is working.
 
Then when I try to reopen premiere pro and open that same file, I get a "Scratch Disk is write protected or unavailable" and then when I try to export the video I get another error saying it cant export. Like WTF ADOBE, y'all already force us to pay monthly for the rest of our lives and then I'm having idiotic problems like this but I literally JUST exported a video from the same premiere pro file.
 
Like whats the deal???????????
 
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MyerPj · Answer

PC or Mac? Perhaps a bad install? The write-protected error makes me think so. This is a user->user forum, so "Adobe" is not necessarily seeing this. Rant on, but it's just us here for the most part.

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