diff --git a/Model/Player/Backends/AVPlayerBackend.swift b/Model/Player/Backends/AVPlayerBackend.swift
index e0934aba..88af160d 100644
--- a/Model/Player/Backends/AVPlayerBackend.swift
+++ b/Model/Player/Backends/AVPlayerBackend.swift
@@ -130,13 +130,8 @@ final class AVPlayerBackend: PlayerBackend {
         if var url = stream.singleAssetURL {
             model.logger.info("playing stream with one asset\(stream.kind == .hls ? " (HLS)" : ""): \(url)")
 
-            if video.isLocal, video.localStreamIsFile, let localURL = video.localStream?.localURL {
-                guard localURL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() else {
-                    model.navigation.presentAlert(title: "Could not open file")
-                    model.closeCurrentItem()
-                    return
-                }
-                url = localURL
+            if video.isLocal, video.localStreamIsFile {
+                _ = url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
             }
 
             loadSingleAsset(url, stream: stream, of: video, preservingTime: preservingTime)
diff --git a/Model/Player/Backends/MPVBackend.swift b/Model/Player/Backends/MPVBackend.swift
index 9c0ea133..bb48dee3 100644
--- a/Model/Player/Backends/MPVBackend.swift
+++ b/Model/Player/Backends/MPVBackend.swift
@@ -290,12 +290,8 @@ final class MPVBackend: PlayerBackend {
                         startPlaying()
                     }
 
-                    if video.isLocal, video.localStreamIsFile, let localStream = video.localStream {
-                        guard localStream.localURL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() else {
-                            self.model.navigation.presentAlert(title: "Could not open file")
-                            self.model.closeCurrentItem()
-                            return
-                        }
+                    if video.isLocal, video.localStreamIsFile {
+                        _ = url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
                     }
 
                     self.client.loadFile(url, sub: captions?.url, time: time, forceSeekable: stream.kind == .hls) { [weak self] _ in