Is there a way to delete selected projects from the Premiere recent project list on the opening scre

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I'm usually joggeling 3-6 projects at the same time and often enough I have to revisit old projects for minor 10 sec changes like a name spelled wrong or updates of text info.

When I have a lot of small changes like that to do the old projects are bumping the more important ones further down the list and eventually off the list. My workflow gets all messed up so I don't want to have more "recent projects" on that list than I have to, and I would like to remove the obsolete ones and keep the ones I need.

Is there any way to do that?

And PLEASE just try to answer the question at hand. I know you all mean well and are trying to help but this is excactly what I want to do, nothing more and nothing less: delete recent projects of my choice from the recent project list on the Adobe opening screen and keep the ones I don't want to delete on the list.

Thanks in advance and best regards 🙂
Stargeyzer

Ann Bens · Accepted Answer

Add a number or letter to the obsolete projects and they will disappear from the Home list.Deleting entire project also gets removed from the list.

Stargazer on ARM · Answer

Hey, I found another way to remove older projects from the recent project list, a bit more complicated but it works. Did somebody say it couldn't be done? 🙂

This is what you do:

1. Locate the Permiere preference file.
( For PC it's usually in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Premiere Pro\x.x\Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs, or you can look it up in another thread)

2. Make a copy of the preference file (Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs Copy) for editing, and be sure to keep the original file intact.

3. Open the copy in a pure text editor (like MS NotePad).

4. Text/string search for part of the name of the project/projects you want to remove.

5. Delete everything you find together with the project name within the two bracket <> characters (including the <> characters). BE CAREFUL so you don't delete anything else by mistake, be sure to keep a safe copy of the original pref file.

6. Save and exit.

7. Rename the original perference file to keep a safe copy (Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs Safe Copy or something).

8. Rename your edited/saved preference file copy to Adobe Premiere Pro Prefs

9. Done! This should clear the recent project list from all obsolete projects of your choice and keep the ones you want.

10. If Premiere doesn't start or something seems to be wrong with the starting screen, re-instate the original pref file and start over.

Still, I would rather have them just dragged-N-dropped to a trash can symbol, but this works like a sort of crude level workaround I suppose.

Good luck!

Stargeyzer

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