External hard drive has caused library to lose content

after a number of low disk space notices, i got an external hard drive and thought i had solved a problem. shortly after, a large number of songs disappeared from itunes (as well as my playlists) and i haven't synced since, fearing purchased and loaded songs would disappear on my ipod.. . Is this a fact that the sync would replicate my current itunes library? or would the sync result in yhe songs on the ipod returning to my computer?

Forgot to add, my iPod touch is backed up on iCloud

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I wrote this to a friend and am posting it here because it is clearer than what I wrote last night. Lorna
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Xxxxx, thank you so much. I was and am very happy about that video but now that I have moved some iMovie '08 footage/clips folders around in my external hard drive, many of my clips in the Event Library (the raw footage, much like the Library in iPhoto) have disappeared and my video of Cheyenne does not play correctly. There are many little yellow triangles with question marks in them and irregularities which lead me to think that my housekeeping of iMovie '08 material in the external hard drive has bollixed up the works.
One thing I want to do is buy a good, good book on iMovie '08 .... one that explains about how to organize and store video clips etc. And then I have to learn that and understand it.
All of the clips that I lost, I still have in the original cassette of footage. Thank God I didn't decide to tape over it! However, I am uncertain about importing the clips again because I am not certain that just bring in new clips is going to make the old deficiencies all better again. Things have to connect right, pathways have to be right etc. And so I don't want to upload the footage until I have a better sense of how I should maintain/organize my movie materials.
That footage was mostly used for making the Cheyenne video, but there are also a lot of clips of ducks that came to our swimming pool and swam around in it for a while. I wanted my second video to be of them and of Cheyenne observing and chasing them.......... but now cannot, since all the clips in the Event Library are gone. The Rise Up videos are still there because they are newer and I didn't touch them in the iMovie '08 housekeeping I did yesterday.
I had a thought that I could go back in time with that special program called Time Machine, but am not certain that it would work with what I did in my EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE, as opposed to my iMac system. I suspect the answer to that is one which would bring me no relief
Anyhow, Xxxxxx, I am so glad that my Cheyenne video was uploaded to Web Gallery before I did the housekeeping chores and missed up my iMovie '08 clips.
I might copy this email and paste it into the iMovie '08 forum. ........
In spite of all this, I feel lucky and happy, Xxxxxx. I see this as just a small obstacle, but one having great significance about the importance of knowing how to handle/organize/store my clips, media stuff, etc. Lucky I learned this so soon. It could have happened when I had a lot of footage.
And this all hangs on my assumption that the cause of the problem is me mishandling/misorganizing the clips/media etc in my external 500 gig hard drive. It seems a logical assumption, though I could be wrong but I see no reason why the video would be working in iMovie '08 at 7 PM but malfuctoning right after I did the housecleaning. ............
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http://web.mac.com/lorna6

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I know this question comes up a lot so I'm suprised to say I've failed to find any fixes on other threads. Many people having the same issue say that the drive shows up temporarily in the events and project source windows but then disapear, this is not the case for me it just doesn't show up at all. I've put 90% of my fcp projects and events onto one external hard drive which is working fine with everything but fcp, it even recognises it if i want to import from the drive. It has been working fine up until now which is weird as I've not changed anything on it recently, the only thing I've changed is I used a client's drive to do the latest edit, which worked fine!
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llyrhughes wrote:
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