Team Projects: Media relinking overwrites local paths on other computers – how to solve this properly?

Hi everyone,

we are working with a Premiere Pro Team Project in a small team. Each of us has the media stored locally on our own machine (same files, but in different local locations).

The problem we’re running into: Whenever one team member relinks media, Premiere updates the absolute file path in the Team Project. As soon as the project syncs, that new local path is applied on the other team members machines as well, causing media to go offline there. This ends up constantly breaking the project for someone else. I really don’t get how that can happen. 

Is there a way in Premiere Pro / Team Projects to map media paths per user?

Thanks a lot for any insight or real‑world experience!