How to change default save location

[thegoofyasian]

How do I change permanently the save location of my projects. It keeps saving my export and my auto saves on to my onedrive and I rather have it on my computer. is it even possible to have another default location. I have adobe premiere pro. thank you and appreciate any feedback.

[Ann Bens · Accepted solution]

You can save your projects anywhere you like but make a folder first on the desired drive.

Auto Save is set in  File > Project Settings > Scratch Disks

As for your export that is set by you in the export settings each time you export.

[default9twzrq950itr]

That is true but it does not solve the problem if you have all your location settings to "same as project".
Every time you open a new project the location field remains where the Media Cache was last saved.
The only way to fix so a new project default location is created is as follows:

Preferences / Media Cache - Media Cache Files  Location - Browse

A new project will have this in the location field.

Therefore my answer below is also correct.

[MartinAmada]

None of my scratch disk settings are set to save to Same as Project, and I  have changed the Media Cache preferences per this answer, but I keep getting a Project Save Error window (see attached) saying "Could not save the project file." It appears Premiere will not stop looking for it in the location where I first created it before moving it to a different folder.  Is there another solution?

[Michael Grenadier]

Are you on a windows machine or a mac?   Have you tried doing a save-as?  Pretty sure if you do that, Premiere will look for it at that location...  

[MartinAmada]

I'm on a PC, and Save As has not been the solution.

[Mikkel22691293sxrt]

If you go into your \Documents\Adobe\Premiere Pro\<version>\Profile-<user name>

Under here you have a file called Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs, in this file you can change your Scratch Disk settings globally, so they will stick with every new projekt you make, as long as you work within this profile

[elegant_Glaze4303]

yes this worked for me, on a macbook! ty that was driving me and my computer's hard drive nuts.

[Michael Grenadier]

I just started premiere 2020 and created a new project and by default it's save location was the last place I'd saved a project.  So that should work, right, if you always want to save your projects in the same placed?  Of course, setting up all the scratch disks which by default are the same location as your project is another kettle of fish...

[default9twzrq950itr]

Preferences / Media Cache - Media Cache Files  Location - Browse

A new project will have this location in the field

[default9twzrq950itr]

The question being asked also invloves a way to set of change the default location for a new project when you have all your locations set to "same as Project" and the default location keeps coming up as an old location that you do not want.
To save having to change that every time to a differnt location that you want frequently you can change it permanently as I stated before:
Preferences / Media Cache - Media Cache Files  Location - Browse
See images.

[Michael Grenadier]

Always a good idea to have your project saved to a different physical drive than your autosaves.  I save my projects to a folder on my boot drive that is automatically mirrored on dropbox and my autosaves go on to my media drive.  And my media is also backed up to a different drive.  belts and suspenders....