MacintoshHD is missing on FCPX

Hi,
Just installed FCPX and I can't set it up to use the internal hard drive. Only displayed devices are external drives (e.g. TimeMachine or other). How can I configure FCPX to use the internal drive to save events and projects ?
Thanks for the info.
Regards

here some screenshots about FCPX and about my home folder:

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I've already stated what I use in the first sentence of my first post -- FCE and occasionally iMovie.
I thought I've made my organizational requirements clear.
In the past three months I've done about 15 short instructional videos using FCE. All were under one over arching project, with sub projects underneath that. Each sub project had the same folder structure including one called "Raw Clips", plus folders for music, for narration audio, titles and credits, still images, etc. All of this was organized via a folder structure on my HD. I had initially created a folder structure template and copied that for each new project under the top level project. My 'Raw Clips' folder has the same function as 'Events' in FCPX and served as my 'scratch disk'. That folder ended up as a bin in each FCE project.
In FCE, I created the project, the necessary bins and the resources are placed into the appropriate bins at the start of the project by dragging and dropping from the folders. If I needed a resource from a different project, I simply dropped it into the appropriate bin. My resources were all gathered and organized in the folder structure before FCE was opened. Once FCE was opened, the project was created, the bins created, multiple sequences created if necessary and the resources dropped into the bins. I then got to work on putting the video together. I work in a planned and sequential fashion. This just covers the editing process and doesn't cover the work I do before pressing 'record'.
I can't use this structure and workflow in FCPX and I need to replace it with something that will accomplish the same thing. FCPX seems to turn this process upside down, by dumping all clips into an "Event' before the project is even created. Then the editor has to bring some organization to the clips so that they can be worked with efficiently.
Having the 'Event' as the top level only makes sense in a one event-one project workflow, which may work for many, but will just produce a huge mess for me unless I find a way to make it manageable.
I wouldn't waste my time trolling . . .

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When I do a relink, stopped dead in my tracks by the new format.
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Ben Low wrote:
... when I go to 'locate' or 'search' for the missing file FCPX gets stuck at the door to the Project Library ...
you miss the concept of Libs:
Libraries are no 'real world' folders, just a 'register' where is what .. in best-of-all-worlds, all data (audio, video, stills, projects ...) are on the same drive - but the concept of Libs allows data spread all across your network But handled as 'one', e.g to finally-save Projects, outsource old data etc ...
A Lib acts like a (super-)folder, but isn't. Simple example: a 10GB lib could fit on a 2GB drive! .. if data is spread on some other drives. But Finder says 'here', due to use of hard- or sym-links. ....
... I read in my searches that one doesn't have to have one's media stored in the Library, but I haven't found a protocol yet for saving media elsewhere.
It's always in some LIb, but not physically... s.above ...
.. One thing I can't figure out: Folders. I love folders. I use them all the time to organize.
obsolete,
get familiar with the concept of tags/keywords/smartlists.
example:
a clip is tagged x-mas, grandma, 2002, funny scene .. one clip, one storage location, many ways to find it.
now, your old drawer/folder system: the scene with grandma wearing a funny hat ... do I have to dig in folder 'videos2002' or 'videos2003'? sub-folder xmas or birthday? or is it n my 'out-takes drive'.. but under what name? your one clip can only be in one drawer... but should be found under several keywords... sooo?
Folders = old school
tags = much more convenient.
(plus: you can use tags very similiar as your old folders... but a computer is much faster in dig'n-search than you, manually
concerning re-linking:
I once had the effect, a 'lost' drive had to be re-mounted:
the red-icon-of-terror (cam missing), relink doesn't came up with a suggestion; clicked on import from camera, clicked to my cam-archive on some drive - and WHILE doing so FCPX instantly found the old connection (no re-import nor re-linking neccessary)..
That drive was unintended un-plugged while using FCPX ..... never happened again.

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Well...
The compression I gave you was h.264. A nice small web version that plays nice and looks good.
Not sure what compression at the size you were talking about would actually get you to 2 gigs.
I'd send him that... or ask for a more specific call on what he gets from the TV work. I suggest he open one of those files in QUICKTIME and hit COMMAND-I (EYE) to get the information. Have him post or send you a screen grab like this:
http://homepage.mac.com/captmench/InfoBox.png
CaptM

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How do I fix this mess?
And how do I avoid it?

Don't see the reason why they link as referenced though. There are no files from those referenced events in the project. BUT when one event is renamed or moved the referenced file goes missing (for FCPX) - even when the file is not in that event?
So I am just trying to understand why the "program is lying". It refers to events, as 1 clip used. But none are?
Don't get me wrong, if everything is okay - it okay. But when files go missing because FCPX cannot find the referenced event - I got to wonder why..

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Ok reading this after typing I think this is mostly a feature wishlist for the next version - outside of things already discussed like XML export.
1. Importing footage that is on a different disk duplicates the original media. I have the same problem if I have an event on the same disk then I move it to another - the 'Original Media' folder merrily starts replacing the 4kb alias files with the original media. I think this is a bug since there is a checkbox that is supposed to prevent this.
2. There is no option to not duplicate media when importing from camera which is required to import AVCHD footage. I think the lack of option counts as a design bug esp. since FCP7 could do this just fine.
3. There is no scrubber bar under the viewer - it is ergonomically annoying to have to move the mouse over on the left in the event library. Skimming over this bar would also be a lot easier and more useful if combined with a scroll wheel option to get some precision in the selection - the current skim thing is only good for finding a clip if you have a mess and for a very rough cut unless you have some kind of super stable hands.
4. I can no longer move frames for footage under the viewer using the mouse wheel (surface on the Magic Mouse). Please bring this back
5. Skimming is ok, if setting context was clearer - e.g. I think it works really well in the project view where you have to click on the project to select it before skimming starts. Can we have that option for all other places too? My S key is going to wear out.
6. On the same note, skimming sometimes fails to turn back on - the icon highlights but no skimming. I have only noticed this problem in the timeline.
7. Some way to bring in created (as opposed to recorded) footage is desperately needed - even if it is not full integration with the timeline (aka Send to Motion) at least let me bring footage back in without having to reimport it as though it was a completely new clip. There may be cases where that is useful and somebody might want to use auditioning for it, but for other cases where you have to redo all your editing, find all the places you have used it and hope you didn't miss any is really painful.
8. Speaking of integration - at least integrate to Motion. Let me rotoscope a project onto a bus passing by that is used in another project without having to pretend I can do it all with zero iteration somehow exporting from one app and importing to the other... just one time with perfect final cut results.
9. How do I sample noise? I have a lot of cases where a segment of footage has say a car going by - in the past I used SoundTrack to handle this - you 'set noise print' then apply noise reduction - is there a way to do this with an audio filter I have not found yet? The basic noise reduction stuff does not seem too useful to be honest - maybe if my footage had wind noise - but it doesn't. It has a stupid car in the middle of a wedding.
10. (deaming) Some way for Motion to see footage organized in events... put another way, why are events inside FCPx - they should be a shared media function - once I have organized footage, any application I have that wants to use it should be able to - not just 'Share | Media Browser' for project output. There may be cases where I have organized footage I want to use in Motion and where I want to output the result of motion as another clip in an event (modifiable please). Seems like events are underperforming their potential. Basically how can I send a subclip - sorry - keyword identified range selection - to Motion without making a project putting just that clip in it and then exporting (sorry, sharing) it as a quicktime movie? Luckily for me I don't have to worry about pro-res being a proxy format - I would feel sorry for somebody trying to do this with 4k footage.
11. Many people seem to have an issue with the term Event - can we have a preference to rename it? Say Media Library and Shelf or something more abstract (since Bin is too old-school) so it does not imply more meaning than it has. I have to include some low-priority requests so the good ones will make it right?
12. Projects are way too big. It will be hard to archive them etc. without messing about with their internals and I'm never quite sure that is safe. An option when copying them or moving them to strip out render files would be nice as would an option to clean them up - they should not really contain things other than my work - my edit decisions - temp file junk should live elsewhere or at least be an easy and supported way to eradicate when I'm done working with something.
13. I'm using disk images to manage unmounting events and projects without having to purchase a dozen different locally attached storage devices. This is a hack to workaround for an inability to manage some kind of workspace for events and projects - personal stuff vs. paid stuff at the very least - some formal support for this would be better. Never sure if I should trust image files for this or if there is some deep gotcha to using any of this stuff over a network that I'm going to get hosed by since there is no explanation of *why* network volumes are evil to FCPx.
14. Ok, so FCPx is missing too many features to import old files - can you at least make an import for some things? The media handling side - the bin organization from an old FCP project? Maybe some basic importing - if I have to redo old work 99% of things do not involve any more than a basic transition - the rest is all clips and laying them out properly. Ok and simple compositing would be nice too. I have not found anything I cannot do in a magnetic timeline that I could do with tracks - fine the import will have cap clips and non-linked clips etc. but as long as it plays the same that is an ok starting point.
Ok its the weekend. Time to go back to the family and stop dreaming.
btw I tried going back to FCS7 and Premiere - they are both more capable, but both feel quick clunky after using FCPx - I find myself getting annoyed easily. The scopes and rendering in FCPx is really fantastic and the organization features are way better than subclips (physical storage issues aside). But it has taken a while for me to get to this conclusion; I kept stopping and muttering 'that's it - I want my money back'. But now I hate life since I have no editor I'm happy with now - thanks - you gave me something I get annoyed with, but have made what I used to use equally irritating but for different reasons. Yes yes I know Apple does not read these forums, this is just a personal monologue and no I'm not trying to inflame somebody who's ability to feed his children has been seriously messed with - I really feel for those that depend on editing for a living using FCP7 - I'm just a moonlighter - so please don't respond with vitriol since I sure don't want to end up trying to defend or promote FCPx.

Which ones would those be? Developers or Apple engineers? I know they peruse LAFCPUG, not here.
Regardless. USE FRAKIN FEEDBACK.
That's the only way it's going to help us all, if everyone makes the effort to use it, otherwise you're just blovinating, and there's enough of that on these forums.

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