Premiere Pro: Trash Preferences
When an application starts acting weird, one of the best ways to reset it, before you call tech support, is to trash its preference files.
With Final Cut in Lion, you need to find a hidden folder and trash two files. Recent versions of Premiere Pro make this much easier. Here’s the secret:
When launching Premiere Pro from either a Mac or PC, hold down two keys while launching. This automatically throws away Premiere’s preferences.
- For the Mac, press Shift+Option
- For the PC, press Shift+Alt
In both cases, continue holding the keys until the splash screen appears. You will know you successfully trashed preferences when the splash screen doesn’t have projects listed.
I recommend Digital Rebellion’s free Preferences Manager.
Makes dealing with preference issues with many apps much easier.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
Larry,
Thanks for helpful tip. I was never quite sure about locked prefs in Mac Pro Library, this takes care of any question. And I have had issues capturing with Canon GL2 and Lion with Premiere Pro 5.5 needing the use of such a technique for prefs.
That was easy, the only thing where did I save the project
It’s fine.
Sweet.
Can you explain why/how the process of trashing preferences makes thing right? What is going on behind the scenes?
Thanks! Salwa
Salwa:
Preference enable an application to understand the world around it. When preferences get corrupted, which has nothing to do with how you are using the program, trashing preferences resets the program back to its factory defaults. In many case, this is all that is needed to fix an application that is misbehaving.
Larry
Thank you for this very simple, but very useful article. I appreciate your writing – i’ve benefited from your insights for 4 years now. Thank you.
This saved me so much time trying to figure out what was wrong!