Prem. Pro to After Effects Dynamic Link Results in Empty Comp

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a setting that I've screwed up, but since the last CC update, whenever I right click a clip or group of clips in a PP timeline and choose "replace with After Effects Composition," I am getting a blank comp and no files imported into After Effects. The dynamically linked project DOES show up inside of Premiere, so we're ok from that end.
Before anyone redirects me, I found a similar post to this previously, but the issue seemed to be different than the problem I'm having and I have tried the suggested fix in that post, anyway, with no luck.
Any thoughts?
Thanks for your help!

Yes. It turned out that when I last updated my creative cloud, one of the two programs had not completed updating to the newest version (I forget whether it was Premiere or After Effects). After I ran a complete update for both programs and restarted the computer, the problem was solved. Hope this helps!

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