Difficulty reconnecting clips from second project

Hello,
Have recently had problems reconnecting clips I would love some help with!
Have a project comprised of about 20 sequences each with its own bin of clips. Copied 10 of these to a separate drive for a friend to help with the editing. Used Media Manager and all things seemed copied over including the appropriate media files. When he finished working on each sequence I was hoping to simply have him send me his project file and 'reconnect' his sequences and clips back to the original clips on my external drive. _ i asked him to not rename any clips and they all seem to match what they were originally. ( He has added in and out points and subclips)
Anyway some of the material reconnected but the majority did not. What can I do to fix this problem? (have tried the reconnect option with the match names option de-selected -that didn't work)
Or is this workflow not going to work? ie: Can two separate projects not reference the same media files?
Confused...and bug eyed after individually reconnecting 300+ clips ...
Thanks!!!

Are the two of you working on identically set up Mac/FCP systems?
You should be able to make this all work.
I don't know if Media Manager caused some issues. After running the Media Manager function, did you confirm that the project (from that process), worked on your system, prior to sending it to your cohort? Did you add some identifying appendage to the original project file, which you sent to your cohort...something like 'Project 01_copy'
Let us know exactly how you utilized Media Manager.
K

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