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JanVdB
Inspiring
September 15, 2025

Relinking Media everytime I open a project

  • September 15, 2025
  • 33 replies
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Hi,

 

I have the latest Pr 25.5.0 on Windows 11.

Everytime I open any project file, Pr starts "relinking the media files" again, and it takes ages...

My assets are on very fast external SSD's, also my Cache designated SSD is fast and external.

I've been working this way since a year now and it was blazing fast.

But now it all stopped, I think with the newest Pr version.

No idea what happened...

 

Jan

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    jamieclarke
    Community Manager
    jamieclarkeCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    September 15, 2025

    Hi @JanVdB -  Thanks for submitting your bug report. We need a few more details to try to help with the issue.
    Please see, How to Report a Problem.

     

    Can you let us know your system specs from the above link?

     

    Can you let us know how you originally imported the media files?

     

    Are you using Media Browser to relink or the finder, can you post a screenshot of your link media dialog box?

    Sorry for the frustration.

    J
    JanVdBAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 15, 2025

    Update: I created a "virtual internal disk part" on one of my external SSD's, copy/pasted a few movs there and replaced these movs instead of the versions on the real external SSD's and... that works fine.

    So the "solution" is to trick Premiere/Windows in to thinking that the external SSD is an internal SSD...

    But of course that is not a great solution for the longer run...

    J
    JanVdBAuthor
    Inspiring
    September 15, 2025

    I now see that is an issue with all my external SSD's. As said: there was no issue before, all working great. It must have something to do with how Pr handles external SSD's... When I copy a .mov to the internal C drive, and use that file instead of the original on external SSD, it works great. 

    Pr also writes .pek files everytime I open the project, next to the original .mov file. My audio settings of my sequences match the project and the footage settings...

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