Link Media on Network drive in Premiere Pro CC

[BaxterBeast]

Hi there. In premiere pro CC, I'm trying to link media that has been changed or moved to a project. The media I'm looking for is on a network drive. When I click on "locate media" I am unable to browse to the netwok drive as there are simply no drives showing up under the "network drives" dropdown. Any ideas on how to make Permiere see my network to locate these files? Thanks in advance. BB.

[Thalesm]

Hello,
I just found this problem myself today and the solution by RichardB99-bbh2ia worked and I'm back to business.

The question is why ADOBE ignores those things and don't correct them. This is going on since 2014. How many updates came after that and why this wasn't handled?

Does Adobe have an answer for that or will keep ignoring their problems?

[Nvgo_here]

I have the same issue in 2022. No offline Files, just Network Destination not visible in Media Browser. What a shame that they didn't fixed that problem since 2014.

[Michael Grenadier]

Did you try any of the workarounds in this thread?  Might be a good idea to tell us Operating system.  Are any of the network drives visible in the file explorer or finder?   If you're working in an office and there's an IT person or department, probably a good idea to reach out to them.    If the drive is available in file explorer or the finder?  If so, have you tried an alternate way of importing files:  dragging them into the project or using file: import?

[Jos.barteling]

If someone is still having problems with this then this is how you get your drive letters the right way:

1. Right click on the media you want to link and press link media

2. Uncheck "use media browser to locate files"

3. Press locate

4. Navigate to your server by typing "\\your.server.ip.here" in the toolbar, OR go to network in the left bar and click on your server there

5. Your server's network shares should show up now, right click them and click "Map network drive..." and assign the same letters to them which they already have and press finish.

Do this for every network drive you want in premiere

6. Close the explorer window and go back to the Link Media window in première.

Then re-enable "use media browser to locate files"

7. Your network drives should now show up!