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R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 12, 2020

Premiere and Media Encoder creating D:\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs on launch

  • April 12, 2020
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A number of users on the U2U forums are having issues with Premiere or MediaEncoder creating a folder tree on their 😧 drive as follows ...

D:\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs

or

D:\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs\Technical


It first was noted by people with Onedrive or Dropbox, but now several others have popped in that do not have those sync apps and everytime Premiere or Me launch, the apps create the folder-tree and folders.

Delete the folders, launch Pr or Me, the folders are created again.

A bug of some kind perhaps.

R.Neil Haugen

44 replies

Participant
January 24, 2023
Thank you Neil.

It looks like a incorrect method is used to determine the AppData folder when creating this subfolder. The AppData folder is not always the base for the Documents root since this is configurable by the user.

As a side note: ALL OTHER Adobe AppData gets saved at the correct location so it should be easy enough to track where this anomaly is created in the code

In my case my Documents root is at D:\Dropbox\Documents and Premiere Pro creates a D:\Dropbox\AppData every time I run it, with just that LUTS\Technical empty folder inside
Participating Frequently
June 15, 2020

Granted, this issue is not really hindering my Premiere experience, but it's been happening for so long and is quite annoying to my OCD brain, so I thought I'd seek help.

Over a month ago, the AppData Folder (containing a sequence of empty folders up to the LUTS/Technical folder) started appearing on my desktop every time I started premiere. I expected it to go away with an update. It did not. I cleared the Media Cache. I reinstalled Premiere. It did not fix it. I have no idea why it started, I do not use LUTs and as far as I recall have not installed one in ages. 

 

Has anyone had this issue or any idea of how to make these damn folders stop popping up? (see screenshot for exact folder) Thanks!

 

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 15, 2020

Participating Frequently
June 22, 2020
Participant
May 6, 2020

Hi,

I've onedrive on disk 😧 and Premiere on C:. When I open Premiere, program creating AppData folder on my OneDrive folder. I have all my projects in subfolders on folder Onedrive but when I delete this folder it creates again. I have also AppDate folder on C: disk. Can I do something to prevent the program from creating the folder on my Onedrive? Its empty and path looks - D:\OneDrive\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs\Technical (Technical is a folder and its empty)

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Best wishes 🙂

Legend
May 6, 2020

is this just annoying or are there other ramifications?  If it's just annoying I'd suggest you live with it or reach out to microsoft and hope they provide the necessary support for their product.   If there are other ramifications, please describe them and perhaps someone here will have an answer for you.  

Participant
May 6, 2020

I can live with It but I think that Premiere creates this folder and Onedrive or Microsoft company can't do nothing. I would like to change localization of creating this folder, is that posibble? 

Participant
April 12, 2020

Hi

I recently noticed that Premiere Pro is creating an AppData folder under my OneDrive location every time it starts.  The full path being created is D:\OneDrive\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs\Technical, so I assume this is somthing to do with a setting for LUT locations.

 

My actual system AppData folder is actually in the normal location:

C:\Users\[myusername]\AppData\

 

So, I don't understand why Premiere Pro is now creating this new AppData folder inside my OneDrive location.  OneDrive was installed after Premiere Pro, but for some readson after OneDrive was installed PP has started creating an AppData folder under OneDrive, instead of using the normal system AppData location.

 

If I delete the AppData folder under OneDrive, it appears again as soon as I next run Premiere Pro.

 

My system Documents and Pictures folders (shell folders) are now located at D:\One Drive\Documents, and D:\One Drive\Pictures, but I don't see why that would cause Adobe to create the AppData folder directly in the OneDrive root.

 

Any suggestions as to why this may be occuring would be greatly appreciated.  I certainly don't need this folder syncing to OneDrive, and I prefer to keep the folder structure within any cloud syncing services to only what needs to be there.

 

Thanks in advance

Brent

R Neil Haugen
Legend
April 13, 2020

Is that one folder the only one created every time? Do you have the companion Creative folder, but it's not being copied?

 

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Participant
April 19, 2020

Have the same issue with Dropbox... and yes my Documents and Picture folders are located in the dropbox folder. Everytime I start Adobe Premiere, it creates the AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\LUTs\Technical folder again in the dropbox root.