Problem with scratch disk in CS4

Hi
I used Premiere Pro CS4 on my MacBook to import from my Panasonic DC-TM700 HD camera and set the scratch disks to an external disk.
But now there´s nothing on the external disk, and I got 8GB less space on my internal hard drive.
So it seems like all my footage was imported to the internal hard drive, but the promblem is: I can´t find it!
I´ve searched my mac for capture, scratch, log and premiere, but I still can´t find the folder. It´s not in the Premiere-folder in documents eather.
Where can this folder be?
Thanks
Lise

I used Premiere Pro CS4 on my MacBook to import from my Panasonic DC-TM700 HD camera and set the scratch disks to an external disk.
But now there´s nothing on the external disk, and I got 8GB less space on my internal hard drive.
sounds like you imported from your panasonic camera. Also sounds like you have no clue where they were being imported TO. There is one clue....which is having less space on your internal hard drive now ( 8gb). Leads us to believe that maybe you imported the video to your internal HD.
If you have any idea at all what sort of file extension your imported video would have ( eg. AVI, MOV, MPEG, etc ) you could do a "search" on that hard drive for any files that have the extension you saved the video as.
Once you find them on your hard drive you can do what you want with them.

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