My external hard drive will not save my final cut files

I have a Seagate external hard drive and use final cut pro. Every time I try to save my working final cut file on my hard drive, it will never open up again and says 'unable to open project file'. What is going on? this is very frustrating as sometimes need to move around my working projects to other computers.
Please help.

How is the external drive formatted? How is it connected to your Mac?
-DH

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