Long project slowing down

hi everyone
i need some advice cuz i just screwed stuff up.
i am working on a doc film. i have edited about 30 mins so far on timeline. lots of overlays/trans/music/some effects- i am on a pwr mac g5/ have all files on an external lacie drive with 115 gigs free/ for some reason i have fce3 doc folder on both internal and external drive but looks like all the project files except render files are going on external drive folder for fce3. my computer is starting to move really slow, especially fce. Rendering is taking forever all of a sudden. I deleted the render files like an idiot, so now i have to re-render everything and keep getting an "operation error" box. i think thats cuz its timing out, not sure. but real question is --what should i do? i have plenty of space left on the drives-why is it slowing down so?
any advice is appreciated
thx
jim

The project file should be on the internal system drive of the computer. The media and the render files should be on the media drive. Move the project files there. Trash prefs and repair permissions. Run Disk Warrior on your drives. Open a previous project from the autosave vault and put it on the system drive and see if it runs properly.

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