[Mark Grance]

Yeah, tried that early very early on. Get Info showed not locked etc.

Posted the solution above.

[Mark Grance]

SOLVED.

TL;DR The stuff in the trash was actually a trash can from my system backup drive (created by Carbon Copy Cloner). Removing the drive caused the trash to be empty. Will reformat the BU drive.

Full explanation

I have been attempting to solve this problem between projects to no avail. Every couple of weeks I would try something. Even had a remote session with Adobe support.

Yesterday I tried a procedure which was to use Terminal commands to move the “.Trash” folder to a tmp folder and reboot. The first step was to get to the trash directory. So I opened the trash folder in finder, typed “cd” in terminal and then dragged the folder from the finder to the terminal where it populated the rest of the command.

I was then going to move on to step two but something caught my eye. I looked at the path the had been populated. Instead of /Volumes/EditDroid/.Trash it was /Volume/EditDroid_BU/.Trashes. (I think Trash being plural was from a previous attempt to get rid of the folder)

The important thing was that the trash was not located on my system drive but on the backup of my system that was created by Carbon Copy Cloner. My guess is that when I uninstalled a Beta of Premiere Pro something got munged during the backup.

So I ejected the drive and now my trash was empty.

20:20 hindsight, I remember with some of the procedures I tried (starting in Safe Mode etc.) I remember that the trash would empty and then after a restart the folder would come back after a few moments. I surmise that it “came back” after a delay was because the external USB drive hadn’t mounted yet.

I am now backing up that backup to a junk drive, then will reformat and reconnect.

Certainly not a common problem, nor life threatening, but glad to have it solved.

Thanks to all who offered suggestions.

[Mark Grance]

I have moved on to Louper.

[Mark Grance]

Tried those suggestions to no avail. Lots of processes in Activity monitor. None really match. Will try to narrow it down.

[Mark Grance]

Finally got a chance to upgrade(?) to Sequoia and it did not fix the problem. So bizarre. I have started in recovery mode and deleted the .Trash directory to no avail. When I start up, the trash is empty and then a few seconds later the folder(s) are back. I think it originally was a container.

I will just live with it and get back to work. But eventually I need to fix it.

[Mark Grance]

Maybe. During the holiday mad rush on spots I had two major clients request that I not use Frame.io because of downtime issues during high pressure jobs so I moved on with those clients. I will still use for some, but that bridge has been broken for those two.

Onward.

[Mark Grance]

What is a bit weird to me is that you say “all the auto-saved projects are damaged”. That suggests to me that your PP installation is damaged, not the project.

Can you open other projects? (make a copy first).

If that works then the suggestion of importing timelines into a new project is a good suggestion.

If resetting preferences doesn’t work I would uninstall PP and then reinstall.

[Mark Grance]

Once again Frame.io is down.

“Users are currently experiencing issues logging in, and delays while using Frame.io. This includes loading projects, uploading files, opening player pages, playing videos on the player page, opening Review/Presentation pages, and posting comments.”

[Mark Grance]

I had thought about that, but in the middle of too many projects to take that gamble.

(obviously not completely emptying trash is not a huge thing)

[Mark Grance]

There was no response, eventually they said they rolled back a system.