External drive not showing in event library

I was creating a video, where some of the clips were on the iMac harddrive and some of them were on an external SeaGate harddrive. I was waiting for an optical flow rendering of one of the clips and walked away from the computer. Unfortunately, the computer screen saver came on and logged me out. When I logged back in, and opened Final Cut, the only clips showing available in the library are those on the iMac. The SeaGate files briefly appear in the event library only while final cut is loading, but once it completely loads it disappears (and can't be accessed), and all of the clips from there are showing as red "missing file." Therefore, my video is not there. Any suggestions on how to get back to where I was before the computer logged out? Or why the SeaGate is not available anymore?
When FCP is loading, here is the event library... but see next picture... when it is loaded and opens the video, the Seagate disappears.
Here is what my video looks like.
I have tried rebooting, changing document names to not have the word "final" in them, moving my GOPRO files to a new folder that doesn't have the name GOPRO.
The Seagate is formatted for a mac and still shows in the finder.

I had previously posted and I think my issue was solved... see here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24014301#24014301

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