Copy, Move, or XML import drops non 1080p clips with no warning

What are the limitations on moving, copying, or exporting/importing XML?
It seems that FCPX dropped all my clips that are not 1080p. And to make matters worse, FCPX went through the motions like it was moving/importing, but ignored the clips that were not 1080p and gave me no warning. So I worked on the project for 2 days only to discover that part of the clips were missing.
Has anyone else found this problem or do I have a configuration problem.
I have some Gopro video and timelapse that are large frame sizes, 2.7k and whatever the medium timelapse stills were set to. These are the problems.
This seems to work with XML on the same computer, but when moving to a second computer is were the problem comes in. The move/copy either events or clips dropped all my odd sized video clips, even on the same computer. Again no warning.
You can import the original clips but not copy, move, or export/import XML to another computer. I thought XML export was the recommended way of working in a distributed enviornment with FCPX 10.1?
Configuration:
2 computers
both OSX 10.9.2
both FCPX 10.1.1
all media is external to the libraray, so it needs to be re-linked when moved.
It does appear that if I copy the library to the other computer that everything is OK, but not with XML.
Should export/import XML work with non-standard frame sizes? It would seem that if you can import the original clip, that you should be able to copy, move, export/import XML.
Rick

Thank Louis for the reply.
My problem is not the media, but clip instances. I have the media on both computers. For some reason the unlinked images are not loading accept for the 1080p. When the clips show up, I can re-link them without problems.
I re-ran the XML import/export between computers, doing a complete round trip. This time it worked! I apparently am having a repeatability probelm, so I have some more work to do.
However when I did a Copy event to Library command, only the 1080p clips appeared.
Any suggestions on how to make this more repeatable? Like emptying a cache or something.
BTW the clips that were dropped are 2704x1524 - would that make any difference?
Rick

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