diff --git a/comfy_execution/asset_enrichment.py b/comfy_execution/asset_enrichment.py
index 9d46ce34c..d6c59dda5 100644
--- a/comfy_execution/asset_enrichment.py
+++ b/comfy_execution/asset_enrichment.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ def enrich_output_with_assets(output_ui: dict) -> dict:
     """
     from comfy.cli_args import args
     if args.disable_assets:
-        return output_ui
+        return dict(output_ui)
 
     import folder_paths
     from app.assets.services.ingest import register_file_in_place, DependencyMissingError
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 231e1a6f9..330fd03b2 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ from comfyui_version import __version__
 from app.frontend_management import FrontendManager, parse_version
 from comfy_api.internal import _ComfyNodeInternal
 from app.assets.seeder import asset_seeder
-from app.assets.api.routes import register_assets_routes
+from app.assets.api.routes import register_assets_routes, assets_enabled
 from app.assets.services.ingest import register_file_in_place
 from app.assets.services.path_utils import get_known_subfolder_tags
 from app.assets.services.asset_management import resolve_hash_to_path
@@ -523,6 +523,12 @@ class PromptServer():
                 # node preview, it constructs /view?filename=<asset_hash>, so this
                 # endpoint must resolve blake3 hashes to their on-disk file paths.
                 if filename.startswith("blake3:"):
+                    # Hash resolution requires the asset database. When assets
+                    # are disabled (--disable-assets) or unavailable (DB init
+                    # failure) the database was never initialized, so treat the
+                    # hash as unresolvable rather than erroring on a session.
+                    if not assets_enabled():
+                        return web.Response(status=404)
                     owner_id = self.user_manager.get_request_user_id(request)
                     result = resolve_hash_to_path(filename, owner_id=owner_id)
                     if result is None:
diff --git a/tests-unit/assets_test/test_disabled_mode.py b/tests-unit/assets_test/test_disabled_mode.py
index cf93b676c..b350426b2 100644
--- a/tests-unit/assets_test/test_disabled_mode.py
+++ b/tests-unit/assets_test/test_disabled_mode.py
@@ -118,6 +118,12 @@ def test_seed_scan_rejected(disabled_comfy):
     assert r.status_code == 503
 
 
+def test_view_blake3_hash_returns_404(disabled_comfy):
+    base_url, _ = disabled_comfy
+    r = requests.get(base_url + "/view", params={"filename": "blake3:" + "0" * 64}, timeout=30)
+    assert r.status_code == 404
+
+
 def test_upload_image_skips_asset_registration(disabled_comfy):
     base_url, db_path = disabled_comfy
     files = {"image": ("disabled-mode-test.png", b"\x89PNG fake bytes", "image/png")}