FCPX 10.1 gets hung up when upgrading library on Thunderbolt drive.

Question

Anyone having issues upgrading libraries on external media?  I had 2 libraries upgrade fine but a FCPX is getting hung up when upgrading a library on a Thunderbolt drive.

Answer 1

On the contrary -  I never worked with versions of FCP prior to X so it is not a legacy left over for me.
Backup was never a problem,  good directory and backup management is actually easy.
Advantage,  events on a slower storage drive  as this is typically only referenced media and do not change that often after import.  Backups are very fast using this as the contents does not change (like all the original media)  That which does change is typically very little to refresh in the backup of this drive.
Projects on a faster drive where all the rendering files and other output files are placed.
Worked like a charm.
Now backups are going to be much slower, because having everything in one file means that as soon as you touch the library it is stale and the entire contents (both projects and events) must be included in any refresh backup.  These larger files take time to backup.
Not complaining, just explaining why having them split worked so well with some good directory management.