Importing to multiple hard drives?

Hi,
For some reason, when I import footage, it is making copies under an Untitled folder on my Mac as well as my external drive.  I want everything to just go onto my external.  I've been trying to figure this out...how I can just get it to copy onto my External...It's filling up my Mac drive.
Thanks

Hi,
I want to reopen this question up, please.
I am running FCPX 10.1.2.  I'm sorry, but due to lack of time, I'm unable to research online as much as I should before asking questions....
...but I would like all of my media (when optimizing) to remain on my external drive.  Previously, I had trouble because all of my media was on my external, then when I would import to FCPX, the optimized files would store up on my internal drive, which caused multiple headaches but I was too far in and hurrying to finish, so I didn't address the problem at the time.
So, my question is, how can I get the new external drive to show up in FCPX and have it exclusively used for my project with nothing going onto my internal drive.
Thanks in advance!

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