Logic Pro X - Unable to save to External Lacie Drive

Hello All
I need some help troubleshooting an issue I have using Logic Pro X and a Lacie D2 Thunderbolt drive. Every time I attempt to save a file to the drive I get the following error message:
This drive used to be connected to my MacBookPro but I have since transferred it to a new iMac. I checked the drive by right clicking and made sure the permissions were set correctly in the 'get info' pane (I have full permissions both under my user name and administrator) and also checked the permission info afterwards using Disk Utility which confirmed I have access.
The issue only appears to occur using LPX as I have successfully saved docs to the drive in Pages without problem. If anyone can help me solve this it would be much appreciated.
Many thanks.

After some looking around on Google using the search string 'Mac OS X External Drive Authentication', I believe I may have solved this issue. Should anyone else experience the same difficulties, this might provide an answer.
If you move an external hard drive from one Mac to another, it you need to re-apply read/write privileges for the new machine to access data on said external drive.
To do that, try the following:
1. Right-click on the hard drive you wish to authenticate (or Command-I).
2. Select 'Get Info' and at the bottom and locate the Sharing & Permissions tab,
3. Click on that and you will see a list of names and privileges. Once there, change the settings to read/write for the new account on the machine you are working from.
4. Click on the little gear icon below that and select 'Apply to enclosed items' from the pop up menu This will apply the changes to all your folders and you should then be able to access and save the data without the warning pop up from my first post appearing.
This next part applied to me but might not apply to your situation but I'll mention it just for information. Should the gear icon be greyed out, click on the small padlock icon to the right to unlock it, that should then make the gear icon accessible.
After that you have to click 'okay' to apply the authentication changes. It will then take a few mins to apply the new privileges to the files on the drive.

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