How to get video off my computers hard drive?

After trashing preferences I forgot to change the scratch disks, to my external hard drive, and all the video was put on my computers hard drive.
Can someone tell me where to find the video on my hard drive, and then how to delete it off, it is about 100 GB of stuff.
Thanks,
Michael

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