Can no longer export projects to external drive in FCPX

I've been successfully using FCPX to edit original movies and export them to an external drive. After installing the latest FCPX updates I am suddenly now not able to export anything. The entire Share menu is greyed out. What's the problem?

Thanks David.
I have a hazy idea of all this stuff. For the matter, I have been using a single external drive [Seagate 2 TB, with firewire 800] having 3 partitions: I am using one partition [1 TB] for placing my camera footage [as FCPX is unable to make camera archives of the footage, I am resorting to making disc images of the footage and importing relevant files into my events which I am placing on another partition [500GB] of the external drive which I have named as 'scratch disc'. I keep my projects also upon this scratch disc.
Now my question is this: Evidently in time to come I would have this drive filled up with camera archives [in my case disk images], events and projects. Finished projects would have to be moved over to a different drive [for archiving] and thereby allow space in the working drive to import and edit more clips. After making this duplicate copy, can I boldly delete the project from my scratch disc? While making a duplicate copy of the project, what should be the option I should make? My need for the archived project would be like this: to dub it into other languages. Should I opt for duplicate project and referenced events or duplicate project+used clips only. Whichever of the two I choose, when I reopen the project at a later date from this new drive, will I be able to access all the clips in the timeline of the project and also will the referenced events also appear in the event browser?
Sort of confused and would like to be guided through this important phase of handling or managing data.

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