Team Project Relink failed

I am new to Team Projects and already found some very old disussions about media relinking. I was hoping something has changed in the meantime.

We are working locally on two macs - and would like to be able to work together in realtime.

This is why I converted a local project to a team project, then I copied all the files in finder to a second SSD using the exact same folder structure.

I connected the second drive to the second mac, opened up the team project and was prompted that everything is offline. I was directed to the relink window and selected a file, now I got a spinning wheel as my pointer and can wait for ages.. everytime..

In the meantime I found out that I should use Team Project -> Media Management instead.

But even there no chance. I selected the new drive, but it doesnt relink.

Maybe because I already tried relinking the "old fashioned way" several times and it crashed every time?

But can it be that the relinking workflow I am offered when opening a project destroys my whole project?

Is there any way to make it work again?

I just new to the workflow and I am a little worried if team projects will survive the exit of a documentary..