Premiere Pro downloading all my One Drive videos

[Anthony2897842784bl]

Qiite often, when I begin a Premire Pro project, it will automatically trigger  ALL my One Drive video files to automatically download off the cloud. Not just the ones I am importing, but all of them. ANd I don't have to be importing a file for it to happen, it just seems to happen. 

I haven't been able to find a solution anywhere.

[Bruce Bullis]

PPro has no direct integration with OneDrive, and is not triggering any OneDrive behaviors that don't also apply to your whole system. 

PPro scans the paths of media in a project, and will scan the project's path for media; perhaps you have OneDrive configured in such a way, that such scanning provokes download? 

[Anthony2897842784bl]

Yeah, we looked at all that. the only time it does it is Ppro. Not Ai, ID etc, or any other program. All I do is drag some content in from One Drive for a specific project, and as soon as I do that, One Drive starts dowloading all of me vids I have ever worked in PPro with.  I am wondering whether it has something to do with the Local and Home Import folder on Ppro, which I never used, but see,s to be linked to all my One Drive stuff. There seems to be no way to unlink it

[Bruce Bullis]

>it will automatically trigger  ALL my One Drive video files to automatically download off the cloud.

That suggests that OneDrive is downloading them, based on PPro scanning that directory for import-able files.

PPro has no influence over OneDrive's response to that directory access, and there's no way to prevent PPro from trying. 

[Anthony2897842784bl]

can I stop PPro from scanning them? Doesn't happen in any other program.

[Anthony2897842784bl]

And it only started happening in October 2023. Was totally fine before.

[Bruce Bullis]

> can I stop PPro from scanning them?

No; as mentioned, there's no mechanism to prevent PPro from trying.

What changed about your OneDrive settings, in October 2023?

[Anthony2897842784bl]

Nothing. Have goine back and checked. Wonder if there was a PPro update around that time? Anyway, whatever is causing it, it;s only with PPro and it's a pain. Have been using it with One Drive for years. May have to try something else.

[Stan Jones]

I don't see this discussed, so I'll ask: What are your OneDrive sync settings? If you pause syncing, does this change the behavior?

I don't understand why this would happen only with PR no matter the sync settings, but, for example, there are settings for downloading all files or downloading a file the first time it is opened. Mostly curious: I stayed logged out of OneDrive, so I would not see syncing even if I had files there.

Stan

[AFasterPC.com]

I have offloaded multiple video and audio files from my computer to OneDrive. Today, I opened Adobe Premiere for the first time ever and clicked on the folder where I store videos. Instead of showing the files that are in the folder, Premiere started searching the folder, and files started automatically downloading which I didn't want. Why can't Premiere simply show the files that are in the folder? Nero Video can access the same folder without launching downloads of multiple files that I don't need on my drive anymore and don't have enough room on my drive to store.

[Bruce Bullis]

> Why can't Premiere simply show the files that are in the folder?

The best approach to avoiding such behavior is to not use a file syncing service like OneDrive, on folders containing media in active use.

I'm not sure what Nero Video is doing, but those OneDrive downloads are provoked by PPro calling OS system APIs; we have no control over the interactions between OneDrive and the OS.