Search/Filter in bin in Premiere Pro not showing any files at all despite them existing

[edtempler]

I'm unsure when this started, and I've made sure to update my software just in case, but I can no longer find any file by searching within the bins in my projects. This doesn't happen with effects, but purely in the project window. It's really slowing down my workflow for searching for a quick graphic or music file during an edit. I can't find anything on google or this forum that helps with this problem.

I've tried clearing the cache, updating the software. It just won't come back and I need to try and get it fixed ASAP if I can.

Any help would be reatly appreciated.

To illustrate the problem, I attach 2 photos. One with an unfiltered bin showing a file with "radio" clearly present in the name, then with the word being searched and it showing none of the files, even though several radio imaging mp3s contain this word.

[R Neil Haugen]

I've seen a similar thing, where the problem was there was a 'space' still in the search bar line. You click on the search bar, make sure you are at the end, backspace to clear it, voila ... search working properly again.

You can't see when this happens either, so it's easy to get it. But always worth checking for.

[AndrewTheGreat]

You can search for things even with a space at the beginning. It IS a bug

[Path 88 Productions]

It is unfortunate bug too.  As a documentarian IF this feature was reliable I'd stick with Premiere through thick and thin.  It would be invaluable.  As it is, it's just not productive because it fails to work.

Weird that it wouldn't work too.  Doesn't seem like the code for searching strings should be that complicated.

[Convergnt]

Experiencing the same issue in Premiere 24.5.0, which is the current version on Mac OS; iMac pro. I am performing ingest of dozens of named files and search stopped working a couple of hours in to the project. Simply duplicating the file did not help; but in addition I quit Premiere, renamed the duplicate file to something unique, and then relaunched Premiere using the new file. Search is again working.

It's a bug, not a feature!! 

It is irrelevent to me if the cause is an corrupted audio file, a cache file, or anything else outside of premiere that cannot be troubleshooted. The search feature belongs to Premiere. If that feature works one minute and doesn't the next, my workflow is not the issue—it's Premiere. Don't blame the users for something this costly software is supposed to be able to handle consistently in every day use.

[davidg75524848]

Same issue as everyone else and I guess I'll do the duplicate and restart as that seems to work for everyone but THIS IS APPALLING BY ADOBE!  With Monthly/Yearly Charges and THEY CAN'T EVEN FIX THIS ONE BUG -- which people have been having for YEARSSSSS, and seemingly should be such an easy fix? 

This is unacceptable.

My job has to be with Adobe for now but the second it's over I'm going to RESOLVE!!!

[Path 88 Productions]

If you're constantly not trying to outflank Premiere's bugs and figure out work-arounds to use it, then you're not truly experiencing the authentic Adobe experience.

This is just the way it is.  I've been using Premiere since '93 ver. 1.1.  It's baked into the fundemental code and their corporate culture to not really fix things.  They like to add features, not aggressively correct mistakes. 

Like most things computer oriented, make your decision binary.  Use Premiere or abandon it.  It's totally acceptable to say goodbye to Premeire. 

BTW, earlier in this thread I mentioned how I'd do the duplicate thing with a project file and that'll fix it.  Well, in recent updates that work around has failed for me.

So yeah, use it or abandon it.  What else can we do?  We're the users.  If Adobe wants to do what their doing and we don't llike it, it's on us to say goodbye.

Like most people, we're in the middle of projects (my earlier post is about the same project I'm still working on) so we're stuck in a way.  But I'm with you.  Adobe ain't exactly making me willing to be on their side, especially with their recent EUA.

[Convergnt]

So yeah, use it or abandon it.  What else can we do?  We're the users.  If Adobe wants to do what their doing and we don't llike it, it's on us to say goodbye.

To your point, we are actively exploring the transition from Adobe. With the appropriate conversation tools in place, and the cost savings a no-brainer, the last hurdle is training—and there we see a better investment in training for a new long-term platform than in working around show-stopping bugs and corproate indifference.

[Ali Jaber]

I have this problem for more than one year, and it's existing with all the updates during this period: the search function in the project panel stop working arbitrary, and I couldn't find a reliable solution for this issue.

Sometimes I have several open projects where the search function doesn't work in only one of them, usually it's happening with larger projects, not the simple ones.

[GregEdits]

This issue still remains... working a docuseries and not being able to search bins slows everything down.  Other than duplicating projects is there an actual fix for this yet?

[Bebesoft]

Simply renaming the file fixes it for me.

[Andrew255473630va1]

BUG STILL HERE. ADOBE IS A JOKE

[Path 88 Productions]

The only other work around I've considered would be to load the .proj in a text reader and search for your specific string of characters there.  I've not bothered to actually do this, it's just a thought.  However, if you're truly stuck and desperately need to find something specific, this might (?) do the trick?

[Bebesoft]

Simply renaming the project fixes this. Someone said to duplicate it, but in short, duplicating it, renames the file as [filename]_copy and that's what fixes it.

When you open the file under a new name, Premiere treats the file as a "new project". It does a more thourogh loading process as it sets up the project for the "first time" vs. whatever it does with "previously/recently opened" projects. This is what fixes it. I'm sure there's some setting that is erased or defaulted in this process, but I have no idea which settings or cahce files are being reset when premiere is opening a project "for the first time", I just know renaming it is the quickest and easiest way to fix this.

[Path 88 Productions]

Maybe for small video productions.  But for docs that creep up to .prproj sizes that are 50+ MB it fails.  Ask me how I know.

[Bebesoft]

Well I commented this because I saw this post over a year ago, I tried duplicating and it never worked for me. I've been trying to figure it out for years and today I just realized that, it's not simply duplicating it that fixes it.

For these last two year, every time I pull up this forum and duplicate my project file, I immediately delete the old project and change the name of the duplicated one back to the original name, and then open it up only to find that nothing is fixed. Today I didn't rename it and left it named as a "[filename]_copy" and finally the issue was fixed. I got the idea of not renaming it to the old file name, because I noticed that everytime I start a new project, I copy the old one as a template, rename it, and the search issue would be gone. When the search issue came up today I came here, duplicating it didn't work, and then I thought about that and decided not to rename it and just see, low and behold, the "copy" opened up with no issue. I exited the project, deleted the original, and named the duplicate to the orginal file name, opened it back up and the search issue was back. I closed it once more, named it back to [filename]_copy and the issue was gone. I did no duplication in the last 3 steps, just simply changed the name back and forth and the issue would be solved or come back.

Even if it is a size issue, it's still something that can help people like me with smaller files, who have been coming back here for years, only to find that simply duplicating it does not fix it.

[Path 88 Productions]

No complaints that you got something going that's solving a problem for the smaller stuff.  But, as you say, peopple come here and it's important to note that large .prproj files just don't allow reliable functionality of the search.

If for no other reason that an affirmation that the issue exists and as an end users you might not be able to fix it.

Just knowing that can save time and angst.

[Ali Jaber]

I don't have time to duplicate the project , and open the duplicated one... The search function will stop working after a while in the duplicated one anyway.

These days if I need to search for a clip, I'll try, if it didn't work I'll just ignore the issue and continue working as if there is no search function in the project panel (!), I'm just too tired to try to find a fix for this issue.
By the way, the search will function arbitrary, you can't tell if it's working or not until you try, if it's not working now, it may work later.