Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable?

[Andreas_St1]

Premier Pro on a MAC.

Error code:

Scratch disks are write protected or unavailable. To open this project,, the scratch disks will be set to your Documents folder. Would you like to continue?

I don't know what to do, i've googled this issue and can't find any solutions.

/ Andreas

[chadiwack]

DUDE! THANK YOU!!! I updated my 2019 Mac on the weekend from Big Sur to Monterey and suddenly got this Scratch Disk Error, as I store 90% of my Premiere prj on my external harddrive I was at a loss as to what to do. I'm very grateful that you took the time to post your fix/solve comment. It's back to normal for me. Thank you again. Not all heroes wear capes, some carry keyboards 🙂

[chadiwack]

Good afternoon Andreas, I was wondering if you ever found a fix for this. I am having the same problem. I updated from Big Sur to Monterey and have been having this problem ever since. I can't access any of my external drive premiere projects.

[Nicholas253580665dn2]

So I have the answer for one version of this issue. If you have google drive setup up mirroring an actual hard drive on your computer. Sometimes premiere likes to be a brat and default the scratch disks to that specific drive which is quite litterally impossible to work in every capacity. So just switch the drive and everything will work fine

[laurap15576738]

Hi Andreas_St1

I had tried this solution, but for whatever reason it didn't work for me. Maybe it was an issue with my hard drive. I ended up using a workaround - hopefully if someone has the same challenges, the workaround will help them (also on this thread).

[Esteban2803614099fg]

You saved my a** man! I really really appreciate that! I was going crazy too! Thaaaaaaanks, cheers!

[Paul292721531pqt]

One of my seemingly unrelated hard disks was full. I freed some storage space, and this fixed the problem.

[whitneyl39007655]

Thanks, that worked!

[Andrey_a77]

I had this error as well and all different "solutions" I could find on the internet didn't work for me (I am on iMac 21). And then I fixed the error myself. The error was popping up for the "default" project.

I did the following to fix it:
1. Find the Scratch folder. (for me it was in my "User/Documents/Adobe/..." path
2. Right-click on the "Adobe" folder in the "User/Documents/" path and click on "Properties"
3. In the Properties pane go to the Access settings in the bottom
4. Open the "lock" in the lower-right corner to be able to apply any changes. Make sure the Access settings showing are correct and you have the "read & wright" access to this folder
5. Click on the "3 dots in a circle" sign in the lower-left next to the "-" sign and select "apply to all inbound folders"

Now all the access is updeted for the folders within the "User/Documents/Adobe" folder, including the Scratch folders. Restart Premiere Pro and no more "Scratch disk" error should pop up.

[Kartikey5E99]

so this finallyy helped mannnn 

you just have to go to user/documents/adobe/premiere pro/ 24.0 or whatever version you have the folder will be there like 22.0 or 23.0 and then get info of that foder by cmd+i and then unlock the lock on lower right and change read only to read and write and magiccc the problems gone

[agile_writer5E61]

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