Moving extra content to another hard drive

Hi,
Not sure if this is the right area to ask this, but here goes.
I recently upgraded to FCS2, and I could have sworn that I had selected an external HDD I had attached and switched on.
When I look at the directory where I said for the files to go it's empty, and since the space on the iMac's HDD space has gone done, I assume that it's not gone to the external.
Is there an easy way to move the file to the external drive, and tell the various programs of there new location?
Any ideas?

If you're going to move media (such as files from the capture scratch folder) to an external, or any other drive, just drag the files over, and let them copy.
When you open the project that requires those files, you will prompted to relink them.
If you've upgraded to a new version of FCS, you will also be asked if you want to save the project in the new format, making it unopenable in an older version; if you still plan on using the older version, just do a 'save as' for your project.

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