Moving Clips - Files lost

Hi, I don't know what's going on here and would appreciate some advice.
I imported a new set of clips and decided to move them off my system drive onto my media drive.
I CMD dragged the event, and it worked, but it seemed odd that it was immediate.
I checked and there was no ongoing media management in the background tasks list.
I was even more concerned by that actually.
I opened the destination events folder in the finder and discovered all my files listed, but they were only a few kb (max 80kb or so).
They were small clips, but not that small!
Oddly, some (5 of the 7) still played in QT.
The other two opened in QT and played a black square to me for some duration (possible the same as the original clip).
I can only assume that these small .mov files are reference movies, but checking the original events folders, the originals are certainly not there.
So am I being dull?
Does anyone have any ideas what is going on?
Does anyone know how to find out where the referenced content is actually residing from the (presumed) reference movies I have found?
There is a little more background to this, but given these were all new clips, I doubt it relates...
I only recently bought FCPX, and my first experience with it was two crashes importing my iMovie events and projects.
After a long saga of salvage operations and multiple crashes, I have only just got my iMovie events and projects imported and FCPX to seemingly work properly. One movie (that worked perfectly in iMovie) seemed to be a constant problem for FCPX and was likely the reason for the import crashes.
I need FCPX for my work video editing (just bought a 3D filter, and I cannot find any alternative OS-X software), but I can't trust it with my video if this is going to happen all the time!
Help!

Hi Tom, thanks for helping.
That might explain some of the troubles I had when I first imported, it crashed, I seemed to have two full copies of everything in the iMovie and FCPX folders, which was not physically possible in the constrains on my disk!
However, not these files! - I have done some detective work and have found some answers myself.
These are reference movies (if that's the right term?), not sim-links.
QT7Pro allows you to view the referenced video files from a reference movie.
I found the originals - still in my iPhoto library.
I remember now dragging them to the event from my media browser.
It must create sim-links reference movies in this method of import too - from recollection, there was no dialogue to ask me whether to copy or not. Then when I tried to move the events (sim-links reference movies) to an external drive it worked - just the refernce movies, not the full ones.
Apologies - I said I had checked them before and they were definitely there (this was the case for all my other videos) but seemingly not true for these.
I still haven't figured out why 2 files died (black video) - maybe I had deleted the file in iPhoto. All a bit misleading if you ask me, these links / reference movies and liable to lose me my movie clips!
Anyway, I think I am going to count this as resolved for now.
I am also dubious about the methods of iMovie import, so right now I have completely reinstalled FCPX, removed pref. files, and renamed / moved all project and event folders. I am now reimporting (by copy) all my original movies and I will have to live without the edited projects (no big problem to be honest).
Hopefully after all this, I can have a FCPX that 'just works'!
Thanks Tom and Russ for helping me work through this, and so quickly too.
Message was edited by: mr.mbarnes

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