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thomasl56578573
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May 13, 2018
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Problems with OneDrive as primary path for Premiere Pro

  • May 13, 2018
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How to I get Premiere Pro to save directly to the hard drive?

We bought a new laptop for my wife's YouTube channel and somehow the primary path for saving files got routed through User>OneDrive>Desktop>Unedited Videos. Needless to say, the "free" space that come with OneDrive filled up quickly. When it reached near-capacity, the incomplete transfers corrupted several original video files at the source, and you can imagine how impressed my wife is with Premiere Pro and OneDrive right now. I was able to recover the damaged files by opening them and resaving them under a different file name.

Here's the problem: I unlinked and uninstalled OneDrive on her new laptop so that it would no longer corrupt the files. The path to save new projects somehow still included the OneDrive folders. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled Premiere Pro thinking it might 'forget' that path. No Luck. No matter what I do, whatever folder I choose to save to has OneDrive in the path. The only exception is if I choose a location in Creative Cloud.

How to I get Premiere Pro to save directly to the hard drive without going down the OneDrive path?

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    Correct answer thomasl56578573

    Well, I figured out how to get Premiere Pro to stop saving to the cloud. Now to go to the Dell forums for the OneDrive issue. Thanks for the help.

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    Brandon Loshe
    Brandon Loshe
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    May 13, 2018

    Hi thomasI56578573,

    Is your scratch disk set to going to OneDrive? You can check by going to Project - Project Settings - Scratch Disks... If so, what happens when you start a new project and under Scratch Disk, select "Browse" and change the scratch disk for every category to the computer's hard drive or whatever drive you use for editing?

    If you're trying to change the scratch disk for a current project you can do a Save As on your project to the correct drive. And then you can go to Project - Project Settings - Scratch Disks... and then do the same thing. This should look to the new path for your scratch disk. Let me know if this answers your question or fixes things for your wife.

    Good luck,

    Brandon Loshe

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    OneTakeCreative
    Participant
    March 5, 2023

    The issue is not the scratch disk but the Premiere's layout settings are saving to profile/OneDrive folder. How do we change that to point to what it used to save to ...... C:/..profile/documents etc. Not OneDrive/Win

     

    I move settings around from computer to computer, beta and standard PPro releases. There is no easy way to "import/export" keyboard or workspace layout preferences. So we have to manually copy/paste those xml files in the correct directorys. 

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
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    March 6, 2023

    You can try going to the Project Settings on the File menu, the left side 'top bar' menu in PCs. Check and set the various cache/save options.

     

    Personally, on my 'new' rig, OneDrive got activated such that it insisted on moving ALL "User" folders into the OneDrive folder system. And wouldn't allow Premiere to save presets/layouts & etc. I could'n't work at. all.

     

    It took me three days to figure out how to totally kill OneDrive. I'd uninstall, reboot the computer, it was back and moving everything! Not too pleased with that monstrous thing personally.

     

    Neil

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      Meg The Dog
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      May 13, 2018

      thomasl56578573  wrote

      How to I get Premiere Pro to save directly to the hard drive without going down the OneDrive path?

      Save what? The project file?

      File > Save As . . . . and navigate to the destination you want to save the project file.

      Media files?

      File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks and set the destinations as you please.

      MtD

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      thomasl56578573Author
      Participant
      May 13, 2018

      Not so simple. Everything is set up so that when you click on "This PC" it takes you to OneDrive.

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      thomasl56578573Author
      Participant
      May 13, 2018

      Even the visible desktop is "on the cloud". What a mess...

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