Following file could not be found during the Project Manager operation

[samjackgilmore]

I'm struggling with backing up 7 edits that now need to be saved to the cloud.

Everytime I go into any of the edit's I'm confronted with the error message after clicking Project Manager and attempting to save the project folder:

"Following file could not be found during the Project Manager operation" - which then goes and lists random files, they could be pictures, audio files or video. These files are randomly chosen in whatever edit, they're linked in the edit and playback properly in the timeline. There seems to be no rhyme or reason why they have a problem to be collected.

Desperate for a situation now I've been struggling with this bug for six months and now we desperately need to back up these projects.

Thanks!

[samjackgilmore]

I should add, the project is already saved on my Google Drive which is synced across three computers and all three computers are experiencing the same error message.

[Ann Bens]

Dont use cloud drives but rather local drives.

[samjackgilmore]

That's not going to be helpful for our current setup.

[R Neil Haugen]

Google and Dropbox and other such services 'tag' file headers to keep track of whether they need to back up something or not. This confuses Premiere's file handling system.

The one service I know of that doesn't ... is using a LucidLink setup. L-L creates a virtual drive on your machine, and neither Premiere nor your OS seem to  realize it's virtual. We've used that with our partner from  South Africa for several years, and it's ... magical.

He's in Cape Town, is all Mac, we're in Oregon, all PC. Our files "live" on an Amazon S3 server in London. We can work projects and Productions and Team Projects from our individual computers without issues. 

It' ain't free, but darn, it's good ...