I do not see my external drive in the Events Library and cannot choose it to import media to. Can you help please?

I do not see my external hard drive in the Events Library pane. How do I get my media to import to my external hard drive instead of Macintosh HD please?

Hi Tom, Thank you for your reply. Please forgive my ignorance. I did try to find the answer here but I am new at this.  Could you direct me to that thread please? Yes the external hard drive is used for time machine and I did see something at one time regarding an issue but evidently it didnt sink in or stick. The drive is a g-raid I have had for several years used on a macbook pro but now I have a new imac and fcpx. works fine with all other apps, when the drive came out of the box it said preformatted and just ran with it.

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