Premiere freezes unless I delete my render files

[#1]

The only way I can get my Premiere projects to not freeze the program is when I delete that project's render previews folder. Once I do, Premiere works fine.

I even had a project sent to me that froze the program when I opened it. The other person and I each have the footage the project links to but they rendered the footage on their machine and so I don't have those render files. It wants me to relink those files so I choose to offline them but it still freezes so I can't even use my workaround to get the program to work.

[#2]

The only way I can get my Premiere projects to not freeze the program is when I delete that project's render previews folder. Once I do, Premiere works fine.

I even had a project sent to me that froze the program when I opened it. The other person and I each have the footage the project links to but they rendered the footage on their machine and so I don't have those render files. It wants me to relink those files so I choose to offline them but it still freezes so I can't even use my workaround to get the program to work.

[#3]

I'm also running version 14.3.1

[#4]

And if you re-create the renders, then close/open Premiere, it still does this?

Neil

[#5]

Just tried that and it still freezes.