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July 17, 2026
Question

Shared projects in a production not saving but auto save is working

  • July 17, 2026
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Post team in a 10G NAS shared storage environment for team collaboration on projects/productions(we solely use Productions now). There are about 4 MacBook Pros, an M3 Ultra Mac Studio and a M4MacMini. An animator is on windows but the issue wasn’t there. All wired in on 10G.

 

The Production is setup properly and “to spec” per the best practices. Everyone knows the key aspects of Productions, etc,,,, BUT last night I myself got on the M3 Ultra to work on something. I had to manually close a couple projects that were “locked” which happens sometimes but I spent like 3 hours working in 2 projects. I saved all - as I always do. I closed all projects then closed the production. 

 

TODAY I come in and its like I was never even working on it last night but I found the auto saved project which got me 99% of the work back. WHY did this happen and HOW do I keep it from happening again? 

(Addtnl note: I found on the M4 Mac Mini with a large feature film production in progress, many of the folders were either doubled or not working at all. I didn’t think much of it since I dont use that machine much but I wonder if that issue is related or similar?)

 

Any help appreciated! Thank you

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Pursuit Films PostAuthor
Inspiring
July 19, 2026

​@Kevin-Monahan So here is the second part of the above question. See these duplicate folders and files? Some projects aren’t even showing up. Idk what else to check on the NAS tbh, but it’s JUST on this machine(M4 Mac Mini Pro - connected over smb):

 

 

K
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Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
Community Manager
July 17, 2026

Hi,

Thanks for the detailed report. Since the Auto Save contains your changes but the Production project does not, this doesn't immediately sound like a Productions workflow issue. I'd be looking more closely at the save path to the shared storage.

A few questions:

  • Are all systems running the exact same Premiere Pro version?

  • What NAS/filesystem (SMB) are you using?

  • Were there any save or project lock warnings when you chose Save All?

  • Were the recovered Auto Save files stored locally or on the NAS?

The mention of duplicated/non-working folders on another machine also catches my attention, as it may point to a shared storage or file locking issue rather than Premiere itself. Let me know.


Thanks,

Kevin

    Pursuit Films Post
    Pursuit Films PostAuthor
    Inspiring
    July 18, 2026

    Thanks for the reply Kevin! 

    I agree with you on this, so I went in to the Synology and checked all that were logged in via SMB and made sure things looked right. They appear to be now. I may have fixed it with a misconfigured user that had a wrong name, needed to be logged out and restarted, so theres that. 

    When I did the work that didn’t save I did have to close/delete some locked files and enable them as write in Premiere to begin but I’ve done this before with no issues. I saved and closed how we always do from what I can remember. 

    It being a production the SCRATCH disks are shared and therefore the autosave folder was part of the shared SCRATCH disks on the NAS. This is how the best practices recommends while “media cache” is local and on fast drives. 

    I feel like its fixed now with the things I did in Synology’s DSM with user name and reconnection but will report back here if not the case or if something worth sharing arises. 

     

    Thanks again! 

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