How To FIX LOCKED Premiere Pro Projects – Fix .prlock Files
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How To FIX LOCKED Premiere Pro Projects - Fix .prlock Files
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In this video editing Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorial, Will teaches you how to fix locked Premiere Pro Project files. Sometimes when you’re trying to edit, the Premiere Pro CC project won’t open and there will be a .prlock file beside the project file. You’ll learn how to delete the .prlock file without it coming back, as well as the setting in Premiere Pro to disable project locking in the future!
In this quick video, I’m going to teach you how to fix the pr lock issue, where your project files in Premiere Pro will lock and it’ll prevent you from either opening the project and working on it, or at the very least you’ll have a file called .prlock at the end of it that will continuously be created. It can be kind of frustrating because every time you open a project this new file is created and you don’t know why.
So in this video I’ll show you how to fix that.
So you may be working off a hard drive off your internal drive I don’t think it really matters. But you’ll have a Premiere Pro CC project open, and besides the project, you’ll see a file that has the exact same name but at the end has .prlock. This means that Premiere Pro has created a lock file and that can prevent you from actually opening Premiere Pro and working on that project obviously if you have deadlines or if it’s just a project you’d like to work on. This can be frustrating so first let’s talk about the reason. It would happen so in recent versions of Premiere Pro, they started to work on ways. You can collaborate better between editors, meaning you can send a project to another video editor, and then they can pick up on where you left off. This is great in a lot of ways because it streamlines the whole editing process. However, it can be also detrimental to your project if someone works on a project before you’re ready to pass it on. They make changes, save it and then all the stuff you’ve been working on gets either deleted or overwritten in some way. So of course that cannot be good for the project you’re working on.
This is why Premiere Pro introduced that locking ability and created these prlock files so now that you understand how it can be beneficial on the other side. It can be kind of frustrating if it’s only you working on these Premier projects. So the way you can fix that is if you want to work on a project that is locked, you can simply go to the folder where the pr lock file exists and you can delete it straightforward. You can just simply delete it and it should open up. It’s kind of frustrating because you delete the file and then you go to Premiere Pro, you do some work you save it and then the file comes back and you’re like what is going on.
If that does not work for you or you find that this file keeps coming back, go into Premiere Pro, go into the preferences, and then collaboration, and then here you’ll see some settings for the collaboration such as collaboration system, unshared team project changes and down here project locking by default. It has enabled project locking check-marked and this is what’s causing that pr lock file to be created. If it’s just you working, and you’re not collaborating with any other editors using the collaboration system, you can simply uncheck that. Go to OK, delete the file, and then when you save it will not come back.
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