Premiere Pro's workspace is not working.

[The Rational Observer]

After handing over my previous project to my client, when I tried to open my saved project again the next morning to review revisions, I encountered this situation:

As you can see, no panel is visible. Also, I can't reset or otherwise interact with the pannels.

I opened the panels one by one from the "Window" tab to check if the project is open.

This is very frustrating. I don't want to come across such ridiculous and angry situations that waste my time Adobe. You should test your products before updating.

[Peru Bob]

Try creating a new project and import the old one into it.

[Steve111]

I tried this, and it worked initially, however, when I closed the new project and then reopened I'm back at square one with a blank page, no workspaces.

Very frustrating.

[Steve111]

This happened on every one of my projects yesterday, Project loads and just presents a blank screen, workspace menu options are just greyed out. 

I noticed in the CC desktop app that Premiere Pro had just updated itself that morning, super frustrating. It wasn't just one project but every project that I was working on. Also, I was completely unable to use the undo/redo command too as it was just greyed out.

Disappointed that an update by Premiere Pro has wasted so much of my time.

[The Rational Observer]

So I restored the old version. Adobe should be careful about these issues.

[stephanw98294997]

Same here. Workspaces not working. Control Surfaces also broken. Better avoid this update for now.

[Peru Bob · Accepted solution]

Try this:

After you create a new project and import the old one into it, save it using a new name.

Some have found that it works.

[Andrew22311098btjg]

Thank you for the help with this on the forum. I was able to get this working again. I am, however, going to be seeking other options looking forward. I cannot have my time wasted on stuff like this anymore. I have a hard enough job without software making it more difficult.  

[Mhomeyer]

I'm having this EXACT issue right now, glad I'm not the only one. I've reset all my preference data in the Premiere Pro/22.0 folder, successfully opened a new project, but as soon as I open an old project again its back to being entirely blank.

I can't import my old projects into new projects, I have hundreds of projects and that would take days.

Am I correct reading that Premiere updated itself and I should roll back to restore functionality?

[Aargh · Accepted solution]

I just found out that if I start a new project then open the old one, It works. Not to happy about the. But it's a work around.

[defaulta8mrebv33fvx]

Okay, this worked for me, thank you! SOLVED (until the next upbrake)!

[jseery]

I have the same issue.  So frustrating!  I remember when upgrading in the past it would ask you to rename the project file (essentially the same workaround we are discussing here with creating a new project and importing it).  I guess that functionality is broken in the update so we have to do it manually?

[Florin270171043xcy]

Hey, did you find a solution for this?