Cannot move or copy Projects or Events to external drive

Short version: I have a project that I have been working on for a few months. Now that it's burned off to DVD, I want to store the whole thing on an External (Seagate) drive, in case I want to come back to it later. (For now, it's just sucking up space on the internal drive).
I have done this before, even a few months ago with another project, but now the commands don't seem to work:
Internal hard drive has the Project Files.
Referenced Event files (some stills, other video clips, etc.) are on the Internal drive, and some on the External (Seagate) drive.
I tried to "Copy to..." the Event folder to an external drive's Library, but I get a quick "Rendering..." and then nothing.
I tried to "Move to..." the Event folder to an external drive's, but I get a quick "Rendering..." and then nothing.
I tried to drag-Move one of the Project folders from the internal Library to the external drive, and it looked like it was moving, but after a while, I did NOT see the Project either in the Internal Library OR in the External drive Library!!! I had actually LOST the Project! (I was able to restore the project from a Time Machine backup from a few days ago... but at least one of the Media Clips is now missing!).
I have heard that you cannot (or should not) have more than one Final Cut Pro Library on a single drive, so I also used a 500GB external LaCie USB powered drive to recover the "old" version of the main Library from Time Machine... then copied the restored backup Event into the main Library. THIS WORKED! But I cannot then copy anything OUT from my Main Library!!
I am running a 2014 MacBook Pro, 16GB RAM, 1TB internal drive.
OS 10.9.3
FCP 10.1.1
External drive is a 1TB Seagate USB 3.0 connection
I have fixed Permissions, Checked the Drive(s) even rebuilt the Volume (using TechTool Pro 7.0.4), but nothing seems to be "wrong." I just can't get the Events adn Projects to Copy or Move!
Thanks for your help!
Eli

I did this to transfer my mess of media management on my old Mac Pro to my new Mac Pro.
I highly recommend that you not use the Move command, but only use the Copy command. I accidentally used the Move command and then it was sitting there with the "Render" thing that you mentioned and I thought it was not doing anything, so I cancelled and that didn't do anything, so I forced quit. BIG MISTAKE.
When I fired FCP X back up, my huge feature film project had a couple hundred missing clips, because it was in the process of moving them to the other drive and the links were all hosed.
I had to go through and reconnect it all, which took about a day.
What I did was I drag and dropped the project files into the event that held the media for that project. I then used the Copy to command. This worked even though it sometimes looked like it wasn't doing anything. It would take a very long time. Walk away from the system. You will see the 100% notification in FCP X when it's done. It will just have a spinning wheel there for several minutes when you first start the command.
It took me a couple days to get everything over, but it worked. Now, my new Mac Pro has clean media management with a Library for each project on an external drive and everything is self contained in that library and none of the media is linked, it's all contained in the library. I think this is the best method for handling media in FCP X just in case you need to move it again or back it up (just drag and drop the library).
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