Search Bar not working

[Yeager117]

As the title says.

Nothing is searchable.

[lasmith58]

Thank you - that came out of left field!

[Gabriel22049391lz2y]

As I found the solution to rename the project super stupid (not the idea itself, but that this is actually how you have to solve it.. 😄 No offence to anyone and thanks for finding any solution in the first place!), I tired a different approack: cleared my chache files (manually in the Windows Explorer as via Premiere it takes ages for some freaking reason..) and it worked normally again - without having to rename the project.
Can't speak about the "Import Workspace" option, as this was not active for me anyways. So this part of the solution might still be important if you have that active?
Anyways, see you all in Blackmagic's Davinci forum... :'(

[antonio_4299]

OMG THANK YOU

[Editor Bez]

Thanks friend. It fixed it 🙂

[jeffh6727633]

It's May 9, 2025 and I just wanted to let ya know that I tried this unchecking "Import Workspace" and then renaming my project and..........IT WORKED!  Thank you!  Thank you!  It was such a pain to enter a search word into my project window search and get nothing.  And this project I'm working on is huge.  Search ability was crucial.

Again, thank you!

[Human Jet]

Worked for me, thank you!

[Hennie27915900vqfe]

Even though this might work, this is a rediculous solution. Like 5 different steps including having to shut down and restart premiere... compeltely takes you out of the flow. Has Adobe fixed this issue since?

[Renzo28103977e3yt]

II tried all the methods they said and none of them worked for me, but I solved it by renaming the file. As simple as that... t

hey are going to implement artificial intelligence when in reality they should implement some normal intelligence...

[francisa11280386]

Hey there,

Inspired by one of the answers below, I simply renamed my project and it worked for me! Since 4.6k people looked for this thread, I supposed I'd share this simple trick.

Francis

[Maxis - 2025]

Same here, cleaned my cache and worked. Recently got to my current company and there were cache files from years ago. Clear your cache and it is likely to work properly.

[Nicholas J Leach]

So many bugs related to workspaces, over and over and over again. Vetrans of 20 to 30 years are sure tired of the same issues occuring again and again and............................................

[indra_0502]

Yea, me either. effect search bar didn't working. PR 25.3.0

[caroline_edits]

Hey Indra, sorry to see this! Is this coming up again and again, or did it only happen once? Did any of the steps shared in this thread work for you? We can take a closer look at it.

Let us know what you've tried to do to fix it,

Caroline

[nede123]

Yes, 2025, its still happening, you guys have had this issue as part of premier pro since i think 2022 was the first time I saw it, and yes, the steps here work but its a real hassle to have to do this every single time it happens, I often work on big projects that take about a month to complete and this has affected me on EVERY SINGLE ONE, why is this still happening? Having to rename a file in order to fix a bug thats persisted within the software for 3 years is rediculous and has to be fixed

[caroline_edits]

Really sorry for the frustration. Would it be possible for you to share a screen recording of this search bar issue happening, and the workaround you use to fix it? I can use that screen recording to reproduce the behavior and file a bug.

Happy to help however we can,

Caroline

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