Scratch Disk settings in Production - set to "Same as Production" but not actually saving there

[grgryw]

Hello,

I'm working in a Production. I have all Scratch Disks set to "Same as Production". But instead the scratch files keep saving to the same folder as each individual Project that I'm working in, and as a result, they are appearing inside the Production. Very annoying. 

Any suggestions? Thank you!

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hello @grgryw,

Thanks for the report. Can you provide any other information? See How do I write a bug report?

I've not heard of this issue. @mattchristensen, does this sound familiar?

I hope the team can assist you.

Cheers,

Kevin

[Todd_Reeder]

Hi @grgryw is this all your scratch disks or just one or two, like audio previews or autosaves?  Also, what version of Premiere Pro are you using?

[grgryw]

Thank you Kevin, I will look through How do I write a bug report? and do so.

[grgryw]

@Todd_Reeder I've switched off between 2 systems, one is on 24.3.0, and the other is on 24.4.1. It seems to be happening on both of them.

It seems to be all the scratch disks. I just tested capturing audio and a Captured Audio folder popped right in there:

It is also happening with Auto-Saves, Audio Previews and Video Previews, which are the only other scratch disks I'd be using, I think.

FYI, I  I manually moved the scratch files to where they're supposed to go, and triple-checked that the scratch disk settings were set to Same As Production. As soon as I opened a project, the Auto-Save folder popped into my Production.

[grgryw]

Sorry, I mean the *Audio Previews folder appears as soon as I open a project. The Auto Save folder appears at the auto save interval.

[Ben Insler]

Hi @grgryw  - no need for a more detailed bug report.  This is unfortunately a known issue that we have logged.

There's a rare case that sometimes pops up with the way that the scratch disk locations are saved to the .prodset file.  I'll spare you the details becasue there's a workaround.  All you need to do is set your Production Scratch Disks to a new custom location. This will re-save them correctly in the .prodset file, and you can return to using the "Same as Production" setting once again.

Yes... I know... I'm saying you have to point the scratch disks to a new location, just to point them back to "Same as Production?"  What can I say?  It's a workaround 🙂

I'd suggest that you set the scratch disks to the actual root of your production (just like "Same as Production" does, but manually as a custom destination instead).  That way the workaround is just one step instead of two.

[grgryw]

Amazing! Thank you @Ben Insler ! Seems to be working so far 🙂

[Florian_Stgt]

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Hi there,

recently I noticed that my productions get confusing because Premiere Pro places the complete Auto-Save, Video Previews, etc. folders in every single project in the production. So in the production panel I get a lot of folders nested in other folders messing it all up and making it really hard to find the real projects in the production. Also if I move a project in the production to another folder the automatically generated folders don't move with it resulting in much more confusion.

Is that intended behaviour or am I doing something wrong here?

I am on Version 25.1.0 (Build 73)

Regards

Florian

[Fergus H]

Hi all, 

This issue has been fixed in v25.2 of Premiere Pro. If you're currently unable to upgrade, Ben's workaround mentioned above (https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/scratch-disk-settings-in-production-set-to-quot-sam...) is still the right advice. 

Regards,

Fergus