Unlinked Media Issue - Adobe media browser can't see dropbox under network drive?

Working with most of the synced "folders" like Dropbox, Wetransfer et al, is problematic. Partly due to the nature of those tools, and partly due to the way that between OS upgrades and upgrades to the operational patterns of the sync tools, too many changes can happen.

Among other things, the syncing apps at times make a routine pass through the folder say every 15 minutes, and mark the files that haven't changed (and don't need re-syncing) or the files that do need syncing or both in the file headers.

Premiere can at times "see" those changes as making the file not be the same file anymore. Which is ... problematic.

So using those apps to move files is useful, using them on the folders of media you're actually working is problematic. Precisely because it might work for several weeks or months, then suddenly ... not work.

I gave up, and use LucidLink's 'transport' service with Amazon S3 servers. Our data is in London, I'm west-coast US, my partner is in Cape Town SA. Our shared data is of course in London, and the way LucidLink works is it sets up a 'virtual' drive on our local machine. Windows (mine) and Mac (his) both see that folder setup in London as if on a local internal connected drive.

And we're able to work with the files this way as long as there's not an internet slowup somewhere. So ... for smaller projects we work 'connected', but with projects with a lot of media, or with projects with HEAVY media, we use the LucidLink process to transfer files to our local real drives.

Neil