Cant move projects to external drive

The instructions I have, say to drag the project to the extenal drive that is showing in the event library. It does nothing when I drag the project?
Thanks,

This is an error in the Help files. What you need to do is drag the project to the external drive that shows up in the PROJECT library. If you scroll up you should see it.

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The HD was recently replaced in my iMac. Fortunately I had backed up my FCPX events and projects to folders on an external drive. I have down loaded FCPX again to the new HD but I'm unable to move my project back into FCPX. Having opened FCPX, I then open the project library, select the external drive, open the folder containing my project but the "current version fcpproject" is grey (not available). I was however able to drag the "fcpevent" file into the event library.
Any help will be appreciated

Since there is no disclosure triangle on your external showing in your project library, there are two possibilities:
1) There are no projects presently located on the drive.
2) Project files are on the drive but FCP can't see them because they are not at the root level of the drive.
So either way, to straighten this out you will have to move some files in the Finder – even though best practices (as both Tom and Luis have pointed out) are to stay within FCP to do that.
Move the existing CurrentVersion file to a temporary folder to hide it from FCP.
Unless you know that the Ball project is at a specific location on your external, do a spotlight search on Final Cut Projects. If something comes up, with FCP closed, navigate to it in the Finder and move it to the root level of the external drive. Then open FCP and it should now be accessible in your project library. Select it in the library; go to File>Move Project. Things should now work.
But if you don't have another copy on your external, open FCP and hot the plus button at the bottom of project library and create a new project. That will create a Final Cut Projects Folder in your Movies folder (which is where it should be in your home directory). Close FCP. Open the temp file and drag the CurrentVersion file that you hid to the Final Cut Projects folder.
Hopefully, you wil now be able to get back to work.
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Ok,
I've figured out a solution, and it probably isn't the best. I couldn't really find answers around, so I thought I'd post this to either; a) help or b) get better ideas.
It should be noted that FCPX crashed a couple of times while I tested this on my MBP. I found the FCP manual to be a little lacking on this subject, but I wanted to be able to work with a project on an internal media drive on my Mac Pro, then move it to external drives for sharing & backup purposes. Here's what I came up with:
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3. Be sure you've copied any external files (i.e. ProRes files stored on your media drive, imported into FCPX, but original media stayed in it's initial location outside the Final Cut Events folder).
This last part is the trickiest because I've found that those clips won't reconnect using "Modify Event References" when you get to the new workstation (or at least it's never worked for me). However, I've found a trick that works great for this:
4. To reconnect media, have FCPX open to a PROJECT TIMELINE with missing media. Open a Finder window to a parent folder containing all folders & files that may contain disconnected media. Do a search for ".mov" and narrow the search to the parent folder by clicking its name at the top. Click the "+" at the top-right and change the Kind from "Any" to "Movie."
5. Drag all the resulting movies from the Finder window (BUT DO NOT LET GO OF THE FILES) and hover them over the timeline. If this search contains some media you don't want in that event, it would add them if you dropped these files. Instead, just hover over your timeline until FCPX appears ready to add the clips, then drag them BACK to the Finder window! Now, when you click on the event in FCPX, you will see the clips reconnected!
6. Repeat steps 4-5 but replace ".mov" and "Movie" with something like "aif" and "Music" for any audio files you have.
I hope that wasn't too confusing. I should have just done a screencast since it probably took me longer to type! Please let me know if anyone has a better solution.
Thanks,
Lawrence

Thanks Andy,
I saw that post, and thought the correct answer listed didn't really cover some of the caveats I have encountered (like the published Motion generators), nor the issue of reconnecting (which hopefully will be an issue resolved soon). I have tried deleting the pref's file on the new machine, but I didn't get great results. So I just thought I'd try to combine my issues more succinctly here.
As far as making a copy of the whole media drive, that's not really what I want either. I would like to be able to move the specific projects to an external drive that backs up my active media drive projects & events, but then be able to also quickly move them to archived drives and delete them from my internal media & media backup drives. As my archives go, I will usually designate drives for clients who do a lot of work.
So for my purposes, I am using Chronosync to synchronize certain folders.
I appreciate your help. Always appreciated all the great support we get from knowledgeable guys like yourself!
Lawrence

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FCP 5
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DVD Pro 4
I have made 4 FCP movies so that I will have plenty of memory I have purchased 4 external hard drives (LACIEs) each one is named LACIE 1, LACIE 2, LACIE 3, LACIE 4. I have logged and captured video from a camera to each of the LACIEs. The log and capture is good, I have all of the video files in the LACIEs) Each of the LACIEs has a different FCP File in it with a different name i.e. Dog Movie, Cat Movie, etc. Something went wrong. Now when I try to open a new FCP file from my desktop I get the message that a duplicate FCP serial number is already running on my network. I am the only user of the computer. There is no other FCP file open and/or running. So I opened LACIE1 and the FCP file in it Dog Movie and I got the (duplicate serial number is already running on my network) message BUT the FCP file opens and when it does I get a message that my "scratch disk" needs to be reset. Even though the FCP file appears to be open I cannot click on the Systems file or the Scratch Disk file to open them directly from the FCP file, I have to get the message. I am having the SAME problem trying to open ANY of my FOUR FCP files from all of my FOUR LACIEs.
I understand that each FCP file for each LACE has to have the "scratch disk" set to that LACIE. What I don't understand is that do I set the scratch disk to LACIE1 or the Dog Movie in LAÇIE1 or the Dog Movie work File in LACIE 1. What settings do the video capture, audio capture, video render and audio render which are the scratch disk settings have to be set to?
Also, I cannot open the system settings at all because the FCP appears not to be functioning even though the video is showing, then I get the message that "your settings have been changed do you want to save them? If I click yes, the FCP closes and I can't work on it; if I click no, the FCP closes and I can't work on it.
First of all I guess I have to get rid of the duplicate serial number FCP? How do I do that. I thought that by having my four FCP movies in separate external hard drives I would be keeping everything clean. I would appreciate any help anyone could give me. I am completely non-functional and can't work on any of my FCP files.

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