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If your editing application shows missing or offline media after you move it to Aspect, compare the path saved in your editing project with the path on your mounted drive. The files may be in the right folders, but under a different drive name or an extra folder level.
You can often keep the existing media links by mounting the right folder in Aspect. If the original drive name is missing, create a folder with that name and mount it directly. This applies to applications that link to files on disk, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve.
The examples below use macOS, where mounted drives appear under /Volumes. On Windows, compare the drive letter and the folders below it; matching folder names alone does not fix a different drive letter. You need the Aspect desktop app and access to an Active Storage project. See Mount your first project for setup.

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Compare the two paths

Choose one missing file and check its saved path in your editing application. For example, Premiere Pro shows the original location in its Link Media dialog. Find the same file on the mounted Aspect drive; in Finder, select it and press Option–Command–C to copy its full pathname. A path like /Volumes/T9/folder/path/to/assets.mp4 has three parts:
  • /Volumes/ is where macOS mounts drives.
  • T9 is the drive name.
  • folder/path/to/assets.mp4 is the file’s location inside that drive.
To preserve an existing absolute path, the drive name and everything after it need to match what the application expects. Mounting an Aspect folder directly makes that folder the drive root: its name becomes the volume name, and its contents appear immediately inside the drive.

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An extra project name appears in the path

Your editing project expects:
Mounting the whole Aspect project gives you:
The parent folder is already in the correct place within Aspect. Mount parent directly so it becomes the drive.
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Find the folder in Aspect

Open the Aspect desktop app, enter ProjectName, and find the parent folder.
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Mount the folder directly

Right-click parent and select Mount directly.
3

Check the resulting path

Open the new parent drive in Finder. The file should now be at /Volumes/parent/folder/path/assets.mp4.The folders remain in the same place in Aspect. Mounting the folder changes where you access them on your Mac.
Show the parent folder’s context menu in the Aspect desktop app with Mount directly highlighted. Beside it, show the resulting Finder path: /Volumes/parent/folder/path/assets.mp4.

Image placeholder 1 — Mount an existing folder directly

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The original drive name is missing

Your editing project expects:
But mounting folder directly gives you:
Here, folder needs to sit inside a drive named T9. Create that missing level in Aspect, then mount it.
Moving folders changes the shared layout in Aspect. Coordinate with editors already using those files before reorganizing them, and close projects that reference the affected media while making the change.
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Create a folder named after the original drive

In the Aspect project, create a folder named T9 alongside the existing folder. Match the original drive name, including spaces and capitalization.
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Move the original drive's folders into it

Move the entire folder into T9. Keep its name and everything inside it unchanged. Include any other files or folders that originally lived at the root of the T9 drive.Your Aspect structure should now be:
Keep folder itself: moving only its contents into T9 would produce /Volumes/T9/path/to/assets.mp4, which still would not match.
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Mount T9 directly

Right-click T9 in the Aspect desktop app and select Mount directly. Open that drive in Finder and confirm the file is at /Volumes/T9/folder/path/to/assets.mp4.Mounting the whole project would still add ProjectName to the path. Mount the T9 folder itself.
Show T9 containing the complete folder hierarchy in Aspect, then the mounted T9 drive in Finder. Highlight the matching path: /Volumes/T9/folder/path/to/assets.mp4.

Image placeholder 2 — Recreate the original drive structure

This also works if you currently mount the whole project and see /Volumes/ProjectName/folder/path/to/assets.mp4: place folder inside T9, then mount T9 directly.
Two editors can keep different paths with Copy to. If one editor needs /Volumes/ProjectName/folder/path/to/assets.mp4 and another needs /Volumes/T9/folder/path/to/assets.mp4, keep the original folder in place and copy it into a second layout:
  1. Create a T9 folder at your preferred destination in an Active Storage project the second editor can access.
  2. Right-click the original folder, choose Copy to…, and select T9 as the destination. Copy the whole folder so the result is T9/folder/path/to/assets.mp4.
  3. The first editor continues mounting the original Aspect project. The second editor right-clicks T9 and selects Mount directly.
This preserves the original layout and creates a separate copy for the second editor’s path. If the paths only differ by an extra project name, as in the first example, both editors can mount the existing project or folder directly without making a copy.

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Check the media in your editing application

  1. Confirm the full path in Finder matches the saved path, including the filename and extension.
  2. Check that another connected drive or Aspect mount is not already using the required volume name. If your original T9 drive is still connected, close files using it and safely eject it before mounting Aspect as T9. Use the actual mount path shown by Aspect to verify the result.
  3. Reopen your editing project and check that the media is online. Scrub a few clips and check audio; repeat the path comparison for any media stored under a different root. Check linked graphics and proxies too, if your project uses them.
If the application still asks you to locate files, use its relink or locate-media command and point it to the intended Aspect drive. For example, in Premiere Pro, select the offline clips in the Project panel and choose File → Link Media, then Locate. Verify the matches, especially when different folders contain files with the same name. You can also relink if you prefer to keep the current Aspect folder layout and update the paths saved in your editing project. Matching the old path is useful when you want existing projects to keep finding media in the same place. For editors using the same saved media paths, mount the same folder using the same volume name. If editors need different layouts, use the Copy to… approach above and verify each editor’s paths. Keep each folder structure consistent after its editing project is linked.

Premiere Pro

Shared projects, Productions, proxies, and offline editing.

After Effects

Work with linked footage and shared compositions.

DaVinci Resolve

Edit and finish with media on your mounted drive.