New Release of Premiere Pro Won't Open Project

[dgfitzpat111743]

I first get the normal "This project was saved from a previous version of Adobe Premiere Pro and must be converted...."  when I open a project in the new version 12.1.

In the Location box of this same dialogue box, it has \\?\W:\   I don't know what this is but the normal drive is simply W:

When I click on "OK", I get the message "You do not have write access to this directory.  Please choose a new location to save the file."  I then browse to my W: drive, click on "select folder" but when I go back to the original dialogue (Convert Project), \\?\W:\ is still there in the location box.

I have been successfully working on this project for weeks on the W: drive and now all of a sudden in going to the 12.1 version, Premiere Pro refers to it as \\?\W:\

How can I solve this problem?

P. I turned off my virus checker and that made no difference.

[Jim_Simon]

Is that an internal drive?

[dgfitzpat111743]

It is not an internet drive.  It is an external SSD drive that I have been using with Premiere Pro for several years.  btw., I get the same message on other external drives that are not SSD.

[Jim_Simon]

The best advice I can offer is to use externals only for backup and archiving.  Work from internal drives.

[dgfitzpat111743]

I have been using Premiere Pro for years and I can't believe this new

version can only work with internal drives.

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi dgfitzpat1117,

Still facing this issue? Let us know.

Thanks,
Kevin

[qlint_qlint]

I am also having this issue. I have a lot of old project files that I very much need to access for this film project and everytime it opens them after converted the prjct file to 2019 it closes right after opening.

Any help on this would be great

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