FCP 7 Decides to Make My Life Worse

I am running FCP 7 on my MacBook. Since my internal hard drive lacks the room necessary for movie editing, I use an external hard drive, which is the only drive set to be used with FCP in the system settings. It has about 55 GB free, yet whenever I try to render, I receive an error:
"Insufficient disk space..."
I've researched solutions, and one that I've found is to delete the FCP preferences in the Library, and reboot. This works, for a short while, and then the message comes right back.
Does anyone know a permanent, or long term solution for this problem?

>I use an external hard drive, which is the only drive set to be used with FCP in the system settings. It has about 55 GB free
55gb of free space is good if you have a 250gb, 320gb or maybe even a 400gb hard drive.  If it's larger than that, you don't have enough free space.  But more important is the amount of free space on your boot drive.  The boot drive free space is used for temp and swap files; when there's not enough space, the system can perform poorly and do strange things.
Bottom line, always keep about 15% to 20% free space on all drives.
-DH

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