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Inspiring
July 26, 2023
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Request: More Robust Google Drive Support / Long File Paths

  • July 26, 2023
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This is sort of a bug / feature reqest. 

 

Issue 1: Premiere only supports 260 character file path name limit (afaik) 

 

When sharing assets on Google Drive, you start with a handicap of about -60 characters for Google to print its shortcut id file path "

 

Example something like this: Z:\.shortcut-targets-by-id\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\root folder

 

Its fairly easy to end up with an asset over 260char at this point and then Premiere refuses to link to the file or says something cryptic like "unsupported file format." If you move this file to the desktop it opens with no issue. 

 

You can enable long file path support in Windows, and some apps have no problem opening files, (namely the native photo viewers and video player in Windows) but All Adobe apps struggle with long file paths. 

 

Please enable premiere to read file paths longer than 260 char. 

 

Issue 2, related: 

 

When relinking to a G-drive folder, 9/10 Media Browser can find the file, but it never opens the folder containing the file: 

 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Link offline media 

2. Point to Google Drive shortcut folder

3. Hit Search

4. Media Browser finds linked file but won't open it

  • The path will be listed but Media Browser never goes to the folder

5. You have to manually go to where that file is re-linked. 

 

Request 3: 

Overall I wish there was an option for  re-linking in Premeire was more like Resolve or others where you just point it at a folder and it scans every subfolder automatically. It seems like premeire comes back up for air about 15 times and you have to mash search about 15 times to fully re-link a project. I get this is more of a housekeeping issue on my team-members end but can't we automate that "search mash" loop?

 

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Scott.C.Author
Inspiring
July 28, 2023

I found a bit of a workaround for issue 1. Not Ideal by any means but at least gives you some options. 

 

You can substitute your long google drive path for a drive letter with this command:

 

https://www.computerhope.com/substhlp.htm

 

It allows you to assign a drive letter to a folder so you can have the project root folder start at X:\ instead of 60+ characters deep. You will have to relink all your files to this new drive letter which could be a huge hassle but better than nothing. 

 

So for example instead of your Google Drive file name starting with something like "Z:\.shortcut-targets-by-id\1xpSDFmRD-r4202BLVDEAa1sWseZBzA23p\PROEJCT CODE - PROEJCT NAME - POST\01 Project Files\ 

 

It will start at: X:\01 Project Files. 

 

This gives you a lot of wiggle room but you have to either set up this path substitution every time you boot or make it run as a script after google drive starts up. I can finally open things in more apps from Explorer!