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MichaelMarkham
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May 24, 2020
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Need to take control of a locked project in a production

  • May 24, 2020
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Hi,

 

I created a production on my Home Desktop. It has several projects in it. In order to travel this week, I copied the production folder along with all the assests folders on to an external hard drive. As it happenes, I may have begun that copying transfer while 2 of the projects in the production were open in Premiere on the Home Desktop. I am now on the road and tried to open one of those projects and it is locked to my Home Desktop (not my adobe ID) so I can't make any changes to it. I desperately need to make a chage to it tonight. It didn't even suspect this would be a problem. I thought the lock would be associated with my Adobe ID so if I started edting elsewhere, as long as I was logged-in with my Adobe ID I'd be able to edit anything in the project.

Is there a way to unlock a Project in a Production? Or do I just have create either a duplicate of the sequence in a different Project, or a duplicate of the project entirely so I can edit on this computer?

 

Thanks,

Michael

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    Correct answer andymees@aje

    In your productions folder you'll find you copied a '.prlock' file along with the project ('.prproj') when you made the copy ... delete the lock file on the disk and it will become unlocked in Premiere.

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    DPowers
    Participating Frequently
    October 1, 2020

    But why does it keep creating lock files if you arent using Productions? I tried it with my team once and now my machine creates lock files on every project I work in. What makes it worse is that premiere wont delete the lock, and the project doesnt even show as locked.  Obviously the Productions feature isnt ready for primetime? 

     

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    October 1, 2020

    I and many others use Productions daily. Almost all of my work is in Productions mode. Never have any problem. Nor do I have a problem when creating or returning to 'regular' stand-alone projects.

     

    So ... are you working still within the production folder on disc?

     

    Neil

     

     

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    kelvin232515956rgw
    Participant
    December 7, 2024

    Some of my projects in a production have become permanently locked and causing serious error/Premiere Quit. I did uncheck "Enable project locking" in Prefs. I deleted the .prlock file. When I reopened Premiere the choice is dimmed, but still operative and I can't uncheck it.


    I had the same problem the solution is save the project again in your pc and the lock will dissappear

     

      andymees@aje
      andymees@ajeCorrect answer
      Legend
      May 24, 2020

      In your productions folder you'll find you copied a '.prlock' file along with the project ('.prproj') when you made the copy ... delete the lock file on the disk and it will become unlocked in Premiere.

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        MichaelMarkhamAuthor
        Known Participant
        May 24, 2020

        Well that was easy enough. Thank you so much.

         

        Best,

        Michael

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