Premiere Pro deleted all of my original video files for good. Over 18 hours of editing and priceless footage I cant just re record.

same. 13 hours of editing. and a ton of money spent on this video. and its now gone. only nothing from customer service, its such a big deal to me. adobe, respond to this please. this is rediculous, and you dont care to fix the issue. 

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Possibly unrelated, and I realise this is an old thread, but I just lost ALL of my project files and sequences when I upgraded from Premiere Pro CS 6 to CC

On first launch CC asked to convert project files from previous versions and when it finished this task all of my old project files had disappeared. The folder structure and contents of my User/Documents/Adobe folder where all of my project files and sequences resided appears to have been modified by CC somehow during this conversion process, and all of the old projects files and sequences have been lost.  I have tried recovery apps but no trace of the old files exists whatsoever.  I think the whole folder just gets overwritten immediately by this conversion process.

Also, FWIW, my auto-saved projects are no longer readible in CS6 - I get an error message saying they are corrupted, and they can only be opened in CC now.  

Has this problem been solved yet??? This just happened to me. My Macbook Pro died while I was in a Premiere Pro session and it deleted 4 files from a folder in a bin. The files weren't even in the sequence at the time of my laptop dying. When my laptop powered back on and I reopened the session, Premiere Pro prompted me to search for those specific files and they just vanished from the drive. Absolutely nothing changed but my laptop dying. How could that cause the files to be permenantly wiped from the drive. That makes zero sense is that just an insane bug?

This has now happened to me 5 times over the last weeks. Latest version of premiere, latest version of IOS on Mac Book Pro.

Never ever over my years with software have I been so disapointed as of right now.

Its always at export. You can see the program freesing up a bit then POFF!

Hi! I know this was posted two years ago, but I'm hoping that if someone comes across this page due to the same problem, they will find this answer. 

I recently accidentally deleted a ton of needed footage on premier. I was trying to "offline media" to disconnected my proxies and reconnect the new footage. I accidentally clicked to delete the footage instead of just "offlining" it. I deleted all of the audio files from my computer and hard-drive, and my backup was a couple of states away so completely inaccessible. 

Solution: Nothing is ever truly deleted off of a hard drive, even if you empty the trash. I downloaded a data recovery program (similar to one that I would use if I accidentally formatted a MAG, card, or hard-drive that I didn't mean to format.) I then ran the hard-drive through that. Usually, there will be a "trash" folder that comes up, and then another folder similar to the trash folder. In the second folder is the stuff that has been "permanently deleted" off the hard drive. I found all of my audio files in there, recovered them, and was good to go. The whole process took about 30 minutes. There was even stuff in that folder that I had deleted a year or two ago which made me realize that you'd be surprised what you're able to recover. The sooner you recover the stuff, the easier and more reliable it is, but as long as you haven't re-written anything over that deleted data, it should still be there. 

Hope this helps!

I have just experienced the same 
Mac book version 2020 
After the computer went out of power it asked me to relink the files. after linking and unlinking some times the files that wouldnt be found were deleted from my drive and are now no place to find - im in panic 

I'm having a similar problem. I was making a video, and I exported it to MPEG4 but also wanted to do H.264. However, when I went back to export it a second time, I started getting the "file importer detected an inconsistency..." prompt. I looked to see what the problem was, and one of my main video files had been deleted. There are no files in my trash that could be the clip either. It just...disappeared?

I'm running:
MacOS 10.15.3

2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5

8 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3
Intel Iris Graphics 550 1536 MB
Premiere Pro 2020 14.0.3

Just to add I think I suffered from the same problem.

Just today took a small video from my phone to add some music over it. Tried exporting, had some trouble with good format (I think video was too bad quality), gave up because it wasn't that important. Wanted to try again a minute later. Reopened project, files were missing from the original location, and nowhere to be found.

Windows 10 Home, 19.9.18362,

Premiere Pro Version 13.1.5 Build 47

Never heard of a similar problem with windows or some other program for that matter. If this really is a Premiere Pro problem, this better be looked at a.s.a.p.

You MIGHT be affected by a virus, some few years back, there was this nasty virus circulating that would rename media files and hides them. The best way to know is to check if the free-space on your drive is still the same. If it is, the drives are still there.

I'm pretty sure you know how to reveal hidden files on windows (Control Panel --> File Explorer Option (On Icon view) --> View tab --> Show hidden files and folders) And try to see if you can find them then.

Ben,

Can you try a search of the media files using the filetype suffix, like ".mov" etc.?

Is it possible a media drive is ejected?

Is it possible a media drive is damaged?

Do you not have any hard backups of your media anywhere?

Ironically, I just wrote a blog post about backing up footage.

Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin