No option to select LOCATION to export

[harshstartv]

Such a funny bug. Adobe Premiere Pro 2022 doesn't show the location path option at all when I am trying to export anything. Not sure where the issue is. 

And of course when I click export, I get the following error which is obvious. 

Anyone has a solve to this?

[BalazsT]

The latest version 23.3 seems to be even worse and doesn't let me export through the Media File OR You Tube option either which used to work. 23.1 was working okay and then suddenly it wasn't. I upgraded to see if it fixes the issue but it doesn't.

I already talked to Adobe via chat a few times about this and even had a technician remotely access my computer, no success and no solution. Yet still paying full premium for monthly subscription.

SOMETIMES copying and pasting to a new sequence helps temporarily but then it happens again.

[Yominsane]

It's because the path name was too long. Create a new folder and project with a shorter project name and folder name then copy and paste your current timeline to the new one. This should work

[jacoblees]

This is still occurring - was successfully sending portions of timeline to media encoder when suddenly on one the location path disappeared and the same error message came up.

[TreyP619]

I just created a new sequence and copied/paste all the clips to the new sequence and exported no problem. They do need to fix this though.

[NovaF]

I just had this issue, it started when i accidently chose my organisations onedrive folder as the export location, then the location tab dissappered and i cannot change it to anything else. I have tried restarting, uninstalling, copying to new sequence, and other things, nothing worked. I open encoder and open the project/sequence there to be able to export, its a terrible solution, and as one person wrote before me, we are paying a premium for something this dumb and irritating not to be fixed in over 2 years.

[Megatonks]

Just had the same after accidentally selecting the Location of inside a zip (by C+P the full address in windows). Now Location is completely bugged out and nothing seems to be recovering it. Damn Adobe, fix your bugs.

[Megatonks]

OK I managed to work arund the bug. Duplicate the 'Media File' export template on the left side. for whatever reason this made the 'location' area clickable again on the new one, and then also on the original broken one - although it hadn't VISIBLY changed. Make sure to toggle off/delete the new 'media file' so exporting is possible. 

[Meghan224254694kc4]

I'm having this exact same issue! I tried everything suggested below (i.e. creating a new sequence, selecting Youtube as publishing destination, shortening the file name, holding shift upon launch and reseting preferences, but NOTHING IS WORKING. I'm under deadline and have no way of exporting my file. Where is a working solution to this???

[Melanie35142387zfuh]

I'm having the same issue and we're in 2024.. I have tried all of the solutions offered by every source I found, and NOTHING works. I literally can't export my project and it's sitting waiting.

If anyone discovered anything, please let me know

[Melanie35142387zfuh]

UPDATE:

I actually just found something that worked for me! I will share this, even though it could have been some random clicking around that got me this effect..

On the left side, when clicking on "Media File", the issue was that the "Location" did not have any path next to it, and therefore, we could not change it.

it turns out that this area where there is nothing was actually clickable! (When you hovered over the grey area where you were supposed to see the path but did not see anything, you can see the mouse change into the little hand to show that you can actually click). I was super excited to see that when I did click, I saw the windows explorer open up to let me chose a location. After choosing the name and location, I got disappointed to see that the same error came up, even though I actually did chose a location (even though I could not see it).

Right after this false hope, I tried duplicating that destination (Media File) that I just chose a location that I could not even see, and THAT ONE also had the invisible grey area clickable, but this time, IT DID WORK.

I hope this works for you all 🙂

[Aamir Khan]

Found a fix here :

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/cant-export-video/m-p/13063105

Just toggling to yiou tube shows the path again,

Thanks

Aamir Khan