IMovie/iLife Sound Effects working in FCPX but no sign of original folders?

I posted this question a couple of weeks ago but received no resolution.
PROBLEM:-
iMovie and iLife Sound Effects are present and working in FCP X 10.1.3 but there is no sign of their original folders on my Mac HD
DETAILS:-
I have searched in Mac HD>Library>Audio>Apple Loops>Apple and numerous other places.
I have done Spotlight and Finder searches using both the folder names and some of the individual loop names to no effect.
I have used DiskWave to list every file and folder on my computer . . . still no sign.
The computer is a new (2012) Mac mini, Yosemite with very little on it.
The folders were there originally when I bought it with Mavericks installed last month.
I upgraded to Yosemite but as I suffered a few minor bugs I created a new partition and reinstalled Mavericks.
It was whilst using Mavericks that I noticed FCP X could not access the sound effects and a search of both partitions suggested they had disappeared.
However, when I restarted in Yosemite and opened FCP X, the sound effects were there and working in the music browser but were no longer visible anywhere on the hard drive.
This has to rank as a greater mystery than the Mary Celeste!

PROBLEM SOLVED !
I have just been using DiskWave for another matter and accidentally discovered the whereabouts of the missing iMove and iLife sound effects.
iMovie>Contents>Resources
So now they actually reside in the iMovie app itself.
So what caused them to disappear from the "Apple Loops" folder?
I can only guess but I suspect that the switch occurred when I updated iMovie to the latest "Yosemite" version.
Presumably Apple has decided that the best place for these loops is in the iMovie app . . . it's just a pity they didn't tell anyone else!
If anyone would like to test this theory for me I would be most obliged . . . assuming you have an old version of iMove and are running Yosemite, simply update iMovie and look for the new location of the sound effects.

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