Choosing a destination drive for captured files

Does anyone know if there's a way to change the destination drive when capturing using OLCS3? I have a mambo-big external Western Digital drive I'd like to use for long captures (meetings), but OLCS3 seems to default to drive C: and not provide any options to change that.
Any ideas would be helpful!
Thanks,
Buck Sommerkamp

To quote Emily Litella: "Never mind!"
I just read the whole help section about "Managing projects and clips" and realized I could control this process much better than I thought.
If anyone got excited about finding the answer, it lies in the help system (duh, I should have looked there before posting).
Thanks for visiting this topic anyway :)
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