Working from Several Hard Drives and having Export Issues

Hi there,
I'm doing some assistant editing work for a client, and he's been editing off of several hard drives: a 4Tb G-Drive, a 500gb USB drive, and his Macbook. Media is distributed across these three sources, and when he's tried to export his hour-long project, Premiere will get about ninety percent of the way there and then crash with a "serious error."
My guess is that all of the clips will need to be media managed, and placed onto a single drive. He's also done something very strange, which you can view in the image below. When you open up the G-Drive, there's the icon for the second attached drive (the one called "drone projects/archival").
Any thoughts?

Drag the folder or drive into the open iTunes window; iTunes will then add everything it can use to the current iTunes library, and will copy them if that option is set in the preferences, which it is by default on a Mac.
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