Preview files, folder can’t be set or what?

[Peter Garaway]

By default they are stored next to the project. You can change the location by going to File> Project Settings> Scratch Disks.

Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro

[Kent Beeson]

Yes, I know and I’ve tried to do that for the past 2 weeks, but it still reverts to putting my preview files in the project folder even though I tell it a different folder – very strange, it never makes a difference when I choose another folder.

any other ideas, I’d love this fixed.

[Tim Kolb]

When you back to the project settings, does it still show the previews targeted to the custom location you specified, or has the setting reverted? (i realize you’re saying the previews aren’t going there anyway…)

Off hand, I’m wondering if the custom location has some write permission limitations that are kicking in whenever you close and re-open Premiere Pro…but it’s just guessing.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Dan Wolfe]

I think it’s a bug since PPro 8.0

I’ve been having the same problem and submitted a bug report a few days ago. I’ve tried setting the preview files folder to my raid but after saving, quitting and restarting the preview folder goes back to next to my projects, which is annoying bc I have the projects in a dropbox folder for backup, and dropbox is always trying to sync the preview folder now as well instead of just tiny project files

[Tim Kolb]

For what it’s worth, I just tried it and verified it…(Windows 7)

I set the preview file target destination, rendered a preview and verified it went to the right place…

Quit Premiere Pro CC 2014…

Launched PPro CC 2014 from the project file…

Preview file destinations all reset to Project file location.

Seems to be a bug.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Kent Beeson]

Must be a bug, wish it were fixed, frustrating…I’m using latest mac pro, latest OS, latest PP CC2014…

[Chris Maue]

I’ve been fighting this bug for a few days now at work – originally none of the files were going where I told Premiere to put them (although Premiere was showing the correct file path to the internal Cache SSD on our mac pro, it was still putting files on the server instead). After talking with some Adobe folks we found deleting both sets of preferences (library and documents folders for premiere 8.0) and starting a new project with the correct file path set helped…

Now MOST of the files are going to the cache drive, but it still renders to the server regardless (which is a pain since those are the largest files being generated). Hopefully this gets fixed soon, I’d like to fully utilize the SSD speed instead of writing to the server every time we render a multi cam sequence.

[Kevin Monahan]

For Kent and those still struggling with this issue: it is fixed in the next version of Premiere Pro CC 2014 (8.1).

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan
Support Product Manager—DVA
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