Events on external HDD are gone

Hello,
I have stored all my Event data on an external HDD. Final Cut Pro X somehow doesn't see those anymore. I have no idea how to get FCPX to see them again. I already trashed the prefs using http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman but it didn't solve the issue.
Any ideas?
Best
Andreas

Hello,
I got the Events there because I "captured" the data from the camcorder directly to that external drive. Basically this external drive is my main video footage drive. All the Project data sits on the Macintosh HD. I have only very little video footage on the internal HD.
It isn't a timemachine drive.
To add some more details. Everything worked perfect under 10.7.1 and FCPX 10.0.0. Then I updated to 10.0.1 and at first used FCPX without that external FW 800 drive attached because I was on vacation and just brought my laptop with me and not the external drive. Now back at home the external drive doesn't even show up in the Event library. I can access the drive in the Finder.

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