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JacksonTeoh
JacksonTeoh
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October 3, 2014
Question

Why is my search bar grayed out and unusable?

  • October 3, 2014
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Hey guys, I was just wondering why is my Search box in Premiere Pro CS6 grayed out and unusable? I have about 500 assets and sequences and it is a pain to look for things with the search box grayed out like that. Please help Thank you! I am running it on Windows 7 64-bit.

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Glitchdog
Glitchdog
Inspiring
April 23, 2018

Ironically the first time I open any project the search bar is greyed, then I "close all projects" (even though no other projects are open), reopen the project and it seems to consistently work for me...I can then search.

Yes, definitely a bug going all the way back to CS6 apparently.

I never used this search function till now.

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Kev.1n
Participant
April 23, 2018

Thanks to everyone for posting in here. What worked for me is as follows: Closed Premiere, Manually deleted cache, Start Premiere, Opened the problem project, close all projects, create new project, reset workspace, close project, reopen problem project, search bar was still momentarily greyed out but came back to life. Working now. Very odd, very frustrating

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Kev.1n
Participant
May 8, 2018

This is a bit overkill think just cleaning the media database and opening a different bin should "fix"

J Schaap
J Schaap
Participating Frequently
June 20, 2018

Actually that has not worked for me personally.

ryanmintaraga
ryanmintaraga
Participant
April 21, 2018

"Close all projects" and re-opening project, worked only for seconds before it become grey again.

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andrewr41268482
Participant
April 22, 2018

Same thing for me, after installing latest update Apr18: "Close all projects" and re-opening project, worked only for seconds before it become grey again.

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andrewr41268482
Participant
April 22, 2018

But after a few seconds settling down, conforming etc, the search bar appeared again

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superboychao
Participating Frequently
April 15, 2018

it's a new April 2018 Update BUG, the search box crash is an old thing, it often crashes, but this time after crashing, you will never get the searchbox back, closing all project and clear cache can fix it just once, but next time you open premiere, it will be the same un-usable searchbox again

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kas
Participating Frequently
April 13, 2018

Yep, happening here too (on several machines) after update. This is a bug @adobe

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andrewr41268482
Participant
April 14, 2018

And for me too. Search bar grayed out, not working. Premiere Pro CC v12.0, Windows 7.

Ariel_Brener
Ariel_Brener
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2018

I never had this problem until the latest April 2018 update - I think Its a new bug. since it started happening on 2 separate machines I work on 2 separate locations.

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    garym46149099
    Known Participant
    April 10, 2018

    I am also having this issue as of the latest update.  This question should not be marked as answered or, perhaps, we need another new question.

    I have tried all of the suggested solutions, including manually deleting cache files, to no effect.

    Just to clarify: In order to test the issue I created a new project, then a new bin, then a handful of images just to have something to search for. 

    Adobe Premiere Pro v12.0, Kentos

    Windows 10 Pro

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

    32 GB RAM

    NVIDIA GTX 970 - Driver Version: 23.21.13.9135

    valeriom73531401
    valeriom73531401
    Inspiring
    April 11, 2018

    Look here, I accidentally clicked on "close all projects" and when I reopened the project the search bar was usable.

    I did this every time the search bar was grey and it always became usable after closing and reopening the project (not Premiere).

    Try this and tell me if it changes something.

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      garym46149099
      Known Participant
      April 11, 2018

      I was excited to give this a try, but alas, the problem remains.

      Thanks for the suggestion, though.

        nathanunifiller
        nathanunifiller
        Participant
        April 10, 2018

        I also just got this problem with the April 2018 update (12.1.0)

        Tried manually deleting the cache and re-opening the project, no luck.

        I'm on Windows 10.

          Orf
          Orf
          Known Participant
          May 16, 2018

          Same here

          Mark Mapes
          Community Manager
          Mark MapesCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          October 4, 2014

          Because items are still indexing.

            JacksonTeoh
            JacksonTeohAuthor
            Participant
            October 4, 2014

            It doesn't seem to finish indexing though. Like it just stops there. I tried re-opening it and it's still the same D:

            Mark Mapes
            Community Manager
            Mark MapesCommunity Manager
            Community Manager
            October 4, 2014

            CS6 was before my time on Premiere Pro, so I don't know if it had a bug that caused indexing to stall. I don't recall reports of any such issue in 7.x or 2014.

            Perhaps something in this thread will help: Re: Why doesn't my Filter Content Bin search work in my Projects Panel?

            Beyond that, the only suggestion that comes to mind is to clear your cache files so that Premiere recreates them all from scratch.

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