Adobe Premiere Project File Greyed Out

[JONATHON5D90]

This is getting real old.... going back to numerous project files trying to open them and they are greyed out. I can't access last save files unless they happen to be in my "recent" catergory when I open the program. After making some pretty big changes, this is ridiculously frustrating. Has anyone found a work around for this? I am baffled as to why Adobe has not corrected this yet... 

[Carlos Ziade]

did this happen after a recent update? you can still switch projects back to a previous working version,

if you haven't done any additional editing yet..

What are your system specs and which version of Premiere are you on?

try to reset the preferences, see if that helps...

Tip: never switch projects to a newer version before meeting your current deadline 

and getting all your projects done and backed up... you can always have multiple 

versions installed by the way...

[Averdahl]

This is getting real old.... going back to numerous project files trying to open them and they are greyed out.

By @JONATHON5D90

I don´t really understand what you mean when you write that the project files are greyed out. 

The best way to open old project files is to create a brand new project in the current Premiere Pro version and then import the old project file into the new project. By doing this you can open verly old projects without issues.

[JONATHON5D90]

Per the pictures above, I opened this project a fewdays ago on the current version of Premiere (same thing happens in AE) and I am unable to select my last saved project. I am forced to go back in the auto-save folder to choose an older file. If I made heavy changes right before I saved and exited the program, they are not saved.

[Averdahl]

Per the pictures above, I opened this project a fewdays ago on the current version of Premiere (same thing happens in AE) and I am unable to select my last saved project.

By @JONATHON5D90

That seems to be an issue tied to your OS. Hopefully some Mac-guy can chime in here. 🙂

Are those files placed on any cloud service/drive?

Kevin-Monahan

[RogerAtCat]

This is happening to our entire team (MacOS Sonoma 14.5) when using Adobe Products (Premiere Pro, AE, and ID). It is isolated to Adobe Products when saving project files to an external drive. It's an intermittent issue and I cannot replicate when it happens. 

When it does happen though, the only solution is to release them via this: Open Terminal and type: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo dragged-and-dropped-file and return. Bam, file is released and behaves normally.

[RogerAtCat]

Temporary fix until either Adobe or Apple figure it out: 

Release them via this: Open Terminal and type: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo dragged-and-dropped-file and return. Bam, file is released and behaves normally.

[Chris37760359je2g]

same

[jamie_2134]

Hello - new poster here who had this same issue and it was agonizing.  Just wanted to point out that I tried the Terminal command you recommended and it didn't work for me - kept giving me an error saying "not enough arguments - expected 2 but only received 1" or something similar.  After some Google searches, I discovered that there was one single letter missing - so the command should be: 

xattr -ds com.apple.FinderInfo (the "s" was the missing letter)

Then drag and drop the greyed-out file to the end of this line and the file path is added.  Then hit return and it's fixed.

[RogerAtCat]

According to xattr help, (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name, so adding s means it's only deleting the xattr of the symbolic link itself rather than what the link points to. But if it works, it works! 

Alternatively, xattr -c /path/to/dragged/and/dropped.file clears all xattrs on the file and releases the file from the clutches of any application in Mac OS and it's once again free to be opened by Premiere Pro.

[Warren377601866egx]

same