Import to Final Cut X

I am trying to determine what the location of Final Cut X storage should be, but it wants to use the same disc as the applications (which I use as a system drive). iMovie allows me to store data on the dedicated drive on my MacPro, but Final Cut Pro X doesn;t seem to let me do this simple task - can this really be so?

I recommend the ripple training tutorials for FCP X. It's only $39.99 for 5 hours of QT movies, including the assets to work along with the tutorial.
The Event Library shows you the volumes connected to your Mac. If you right-click on the volume you want your assets to be located and then select Create Event, this is where your imported assets will be located if you select "Copy to Files to Final Cut Events Folder". You typically create an event for each project and then you can create folders and assign key words, etc., to organize the assets in each Event.
If you don't have that option selected, it will just leave the assets wherever you imported them from, and this can obviously be any drive you want with any folder structure you want.
Good luck.

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I am at 99.9 &% finished with a VB program to create / modify nodes, values and attributes, except that the XML date changes format at the node named "//WorkspaceSettings" so I am not able to edit values to make a file that will not crash when opening.
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R
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I did install some of the recent updates to Tiger to
get it up to 10.4.9 But that is about it.
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