Premiere Team project stuck on THE APPLICATION IS CURRENTLY SAVING YOUR VERSION

I've been hitting publish all day on my premiere team project. but only in the past 20 mins I have hit "publish" and I was met with this pop up that says "the application is currently saving your version to team projects. this operation must be completed before publish can occur". and it shows a blue bar that has gone all the way to the right. and this window is just sitting here and wont progress. my internet connection is fine.  when i go to edit menu , team projects,  covert team project (to save a local copy), i get an almost identical pop up that doesnt go away. so how am i supposed to save if it wont save to the cloud or locally? so i go to media browser and Right-clicked on the Team Project and choose "Make New Team Project from Version..."but shortly thereafter i was met with a pop up dialogue that said synchronization failure. the team project could not be synchronized due to a network error. Please try to open the Team project again.

How am i supposed to save my premiere team project when it wont let me? please help,

premiere 23.5.0

build 56

mac os ventura 13.4.1

UPDATE: my coworker went in the other room to their desktop and hit update/publish. then I force quit out of premiere and was able to open the project with very minimal work lost. but if coworker wasnt around to save the day, how would i have saved my team project when premiere was being stubborn?