"Relink other automatically" doesn't work. Using PR2025 version

Uncliking File extension worked for me also. Thanks.

here is the solution.
right click on the media and select this. 

Do this Select folder to link > Link media > Locate > Select the main folder instead of choosing a single clip and click search. PP will search the clip automatically. Select the clip and click OK

My case with files are similar to Nana's. Card based media and phone footage along with additions from the client, and my own conversions from VFR to CFR (commonly for phone media) or to edit friendly codecs for materials requiring it.

I pay extra caution and meticulously craft my folder structures so that each fike type, revision, conversion or SD card received gets their own folder.

For example,

A videographer provided me with 3 sd cards from his Sony DSLR camera, but woth each card file names began with C0001.MP4. So I have them in seperate folders and categorically organized in the file & folder structure. When importing these, before the import process I create the exact folder structure through bins.

ProjectName > Footages > Videographer A > Camera Name > SD card number (or date) > Copy of Sd Card Contents

To import the files, I navigate to the relevant bin and use the import dialogue from the project browser, and select all the files, import them and organize them in sequences.

However, during the relinking process which opens first when you open a project, I discovered that even though I choose only a set of files inside a specific folder to relink, and then select the exact files, premiere pro begins to try linking other unlinked files from the list and this becomes a problem because there is a discrepancy between what PP expects as the extension and what the actual adn previously linked extensions were.

Doing this relinking on a bin by bin basis minimizes the potential for errors since the time I have faced this error. After this problem I have started to rename each Sony file or ones sharing similar names to SD1_C0001.MP4 for new projects, but as far as I know it is not advisable to cause changes in the structure of files and have been advised to keep them the way they were present in the card.

Hi @Kevin-Monahan 

Noted on that. Yes, some are card-based media while some are the video files I received from the clients. I will try to ingest the medias through Media Browser to see if it is indeed helpful for my work.

However, I really do hope that I can still turn on the 'file extension' when i'm relinking the medias as it is really helpful for me to making sure that I am linking the correct media. Hope it can be fixed! It is useless to have the option there when I couldn't use it, right?

Hi @nana36722464ffx2 and @cizkek_,

Thanks,
Kevin

@Kevin-Monahan there were cases where some files share the same name but different extension are saved in the same folder. so when i relink the files, it relinked to the wrong file if i do not enable the 'file extension' option. this is actually crucial for the people who is not familiar with my working style to quickly relink the files without having to waste too much time to browse thru the files to check which are the correct ones. This may not make sense to you, but that happened to me few years back. It linked to the wrong files, I have to close the project and relink them all over again. Since then, I'll just make sure I have enabled the 'file extension' option to make sure that it will link to the exact file that it was linked to. this can really minimize the possibility of linking to the wrong file that shares the same name.

@Kevin-Monahan 

Its is important because of the following:

In my case all of the original files had their extensions in lower case characters except for a few.

When the missing files prompt came up and the relink window opened, I noticed that PP was expecting all of the files with their extensions written in upper caee characters while in fact no modifications were made to the files, the file structures, or to the extensions.

Checking and unchecking the check-box for file extensions didn't have any effect on some bins I had when especially there was mixed case sizes in the bins and folders in the disk.