Issues With Speed Of FCP X

After spending countless hours on a project in Final Cut Express only to discover its poor rendering power, I ultimately decided to try and rebuild my project in FCP X - especially since I could try it for free. At first, FCP X ran fine. After a week it started to load slower and there was slight lag while working on the project - nothing too significant. Since then it's pretty much devolved into an unusable mess. My project is only 12 minutes long, yet it takes about 5-10 minutes just for it to completely load in the timeline each instance I open the program. And then when doing even the simplest of actions, it can take minutes until the "spinning wait cursor" finally disappears. It's become unbearable at this point. I've already put a significant amount of time into the rebuilt project and considering it was devastating having to start from scratch, it's especially devastating having such tremendous issues yet again.
I searched the boards and have seen that others have had similar problems. I tried some of the proposed solutions, like restarting the omputer, deleting third-party plug-ins (I only had one), and deleting render files, but none of that did anything. Would I be able to uninstall it and then re-install it even though it's a trial version? I doubt it would do a thing, but it could be worth a try.
I had intentions of buying FCP X when the trial ended, but if this is what it's going to perform like, it will be utterly worthless to me.

1. Is there anyway to trash preferences without additional software? How can I verify that Digital Rebellion and its software is legit? How would preferences even become corrupted? Why would their corruption have such a significant impact on the running of the program?
I think you can find the preferences, but they do have less than obvious names. As to getting corrupted, I am beginning to believe the massive amount of Internet communication done by Final Cut X is actually an input-output arrangement. It is on the input side where the preferences may be affected. Preference corruption may also be due to Final Cut X, which certainly makes changes to the preferences at all times. This does NOT mean these changes are correct or for your better good.
2. One of the first things I did was delete older versions of my project to see if that would help at all - it didn't. In fact, back when I began the trial use of FCP X, it ran perfectly fine despite my making of lots and lots of duplicates as I made my way through the learning curve.
Final Cut X also makes lots of files. My edits run into the tens of thousands of files, generally.
3. All I have under "Render Files" in "Events" is "Peaks Data" and "Thumbnail Media". I don't even know what Peaks Data is.
Peaks, I believe are the audio waveforms.
4. I have RAID set up on my external hard drive, but not the computer's. If I were to change permissions on the computer, could that affect the external harddrive when it's connected again?
It is only with a software RAID, made with Disk Utility, that permissions changes can mess everything up. I have seen no issues (yet) regarding hardware RAIDS.
5. How would I be able to reinstall the trial version?
Well, with the paid version, you can just delete it, and the App Store (which peers into your computer regarding all software, by the way) will know it and allow a re-download. This might be true of the trial version as well.

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