Motion wont read my FCP clips

I am trying to send my sequence from FCP to Motion. Every time the checkered red boxes show up and a message comes up saying it can not locate the original footage. My footage is all on an external HD. FCP reads it off of the HD just fine. But every time I go to motion it looses it. When I try to search for it manually after the warning pops up it wont let me select the clips from the HD even though it is the exact same path it says the footage used to be on.

Don't have any funky characters in the file path - "/~#@*%" - etc...
post back,
Patrick

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