Moving FCP Projects to another Mac

I just purchased a new MacPro and want to move my projects from my 2.7 G5 to my new MacPro. How best is this done? I know files from the project may or may not be in many folders.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sky........

Move the project files from one computer to the other...via a small hard drive, flash drive...or connect the two via Ethernet and network them.
Where is your media stored? It SHOULD be all stored on one drive, and I mean everything. Captured footage, audio files, picture files...all on one drive. If it is an external drive, simply moving it from one machine to the other works.
If you have it all on your system drive...first off...shame. Second off, GET AN EXTERNAL DRIVE NOW. Then you can use the Media Manager to move the footage from the main drive to the external.
Shane

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