Eject drive from event library

Editing my second project in FCPX and loving it. Works for me as advertised.
One small thing though is that when I connect my iPod while using FCPX it shows up in the event library. When I'm in iTunes with FCPX still open it won't allow me to eject the iPod with the dialog saying the iPod is in use by FCPX. Is there a way to unmount the iPod without closing FInal Cut?
Kim

Thank you for the suggestion. I had tried that earlier and tried it again just now. No luck. I can open the pref file in TextWrangler and can see the references to the old external hard drive.
Do I dare just go in and strip out the code that references that old external drive?
I appreciate your response.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I had tried that earlier and tried it again just now. No luck. I can open the pref file in TextWrangler and can see the references to the old external hard drive.
Do I dare just go in and strip out the code that references that old external drive?
I appreciate your response.

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welcome argardner to the  boards..
you're missing the concept of iM .. you don't move 'files' from Event to Project Library.. Events is the big box of all your imported clips; now, from that box of bricks, you drag the clips into all kind of projects.. you can 're-use' the same clip again'n again in many projects.. you can use all clips of all Events in one Project.. or all clips of one Event in two projects.. or..
spend some time here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/#imovie
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovie08_GettingStarted.pdf
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My external drives do not appear in the event library. Only my system drive. Specifically, the external drives show up when the project is launched but they disappear almost immediately.
I know there was a problem with time machine drives doing something similar but this is not the case here. My drives are correctly formatted and have never been used for TM.
Oddly things were working fine until the program got hung up on launch and I deleted the prefs (HUGE mistake)
Since then, I have deleted preferences and reinsatlled the application twice to no avail and restarted. Program launches, I see the drives, then they vanish.
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