Premiere Freezing anytime File Explorer Opens

[mandicreally]

Anything that opens up the Windows File Explorer in Premiere seems to crash it.  Lumetri Color when I try to Browse for a LUT? Crash.  Tried to change the directory  of my Media Cache? Crash.  

This has been a problem off and on for me over the last few months, but today I am at a full stop.  I NEED to color correct this video project.  It is the final step and I simply cannot.  It is like Premiere forgets it is doing anything once the Explorer window opens.  

In task manager Premiere is basically idle doing nothing and not reported as "Not Responding".  It just quits working and hangs.  

Anyone experience this?  I've got a lot of drives in/connected to my computer but the ones I work off of are either M.2 SSDs or a Sata SSD, they shouldn't be bottlenecking anything. 

[Ann Bens]

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