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November 29, 2022
Question

All of my premiere projects disappeared

  • November 29, 2022
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So I was editing some footage for a new project and experiencing some lag issues. I assumed it was the hard drive and copied the file to a faster SSD. When I reopen premiere, all of my projects are gone. Not just the one I was editing but all of them. This was on version 23.0

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Participant
January 11, 2024

Community "Experts" ^^

Participating Frequently
June 10, 2023

You keep asking if using an external drive - I don't know how it was for the others.m, but as I answered when you asked me that; the project and render files were in the folder on my computer. Mistake might have been basing in autosave folders or working unorderly. Yet, even if Adobe is updating or whatever, I don't believe any program should have the ability to delete user created project files without the user commanding any sort of clean-up. That just goes against any logic of property owning specifically in our time with strict data policies... 

Participant
September 30, 2025

Just came here a whole two years later to say, I just had this exact same problem, unplugged my hard drive from my laptop, the most recent file I was working on not even 2 minutes prior, dissappeared without a trace. I am now starting back from square one. 

Participating Frequently
September 30, 2025

I've switched to resolve anyways lmao (highly recommend).

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 10, 2023

Using an external drive?

suzaniv94992666
Participant
June 10, 2023

I am having the same issue, all my proproj files had dissapeared. Nowhere to be found on my mac, this really sux

 

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

lmao we are having the exact same issue

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

I am using a mac and the first thing I did was to use spotlight to search for all .prprj files. Then all autosave folders, only of much older projects nothing of the last 6 - 10 months.

Community Expert
November 30, 2022

I wanna give some hope I don't feel the project file was deleted, it is missing somewhere,

so try to search only .prproj

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

Yes. Only materials left on the drive. The project was per default saved at premiere pro library. I have to admit it was a quick project, which I don|t remember where I had saved, but been working on it for a while now (ended up being bigger than originallz planned)... Now I know I'm stupid to have not backed up the project file, but I also don't expect a program for which I pay monthly to go ahead and delete project files... 

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 30, 2022

Using an external drive?

Participating Frequently
November 30, 2022

I did not reset anything, nor have I deleted anything.

The project file is gone, the autosave folders are gone. No trace of anz project since last year...