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More issues with Media Cache Location
Many opinions exist on where best to put the Media Cache in Premiere Pro, this question straddles them:
My preference has been to point all media cache files to a dedicated folder on the external drive that contains my media – there will be pros and cons of this, but this has functioned well for the most part for many projects. However, Premiere continues to put SOME media cache files in its default location: User > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Common, regardless of where it is directed to place them in the two preference settings available: Preferences > Media Cache, and Project Settings > Scratch Disks.
With all preferences pointed toward the folder I’ve created on my external drive, Premiere still uses that COMMON folder in what appears to be a random manner – cache files suddenly begin appearing there with no change in settings or no identifiable action on my part, and files continue to be created in the folder on the external drive as well. I can find no correlation between cache files landing in COMMON vs landing in the correctly assigned folder, it truly appears random and sporadic with no link to any action.
If I clear that COMMON folder of all its files and restart, Premiere will rebuild cache files there again in an unclear manner, creating new cache files unrelated to the ones previously there, and yet also creating files in the designated folder on the external drive.
Has anyone encountered this split personality before? Any solution? Yes one could argue that just letting Premiere use that default location for all cache files could be the solution, however my work involves some very large long form projects with massive cache files so this is a hesitation here. If anyone uses any other cache location than this COMMON folder, are you also seeing this odd behavior?
Many thanks,
Jay
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Thanks for this. I just checked and I had over 29k Media Cache files there. Granted, they were only ~4k each, but that’s a lot of files to keep up with.
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When I finish a large project, or if things seem to be acting strange on my PC, I’ll open PPro without opening a project, go to my Media Cache Preferences and hit Delete to Remove Media Cache Files, and select to remove ALL media cache files from the system. This will get rid of all the media cache database files in the Common folders as well. I also do this with AE.
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