Root Movie Folder filling up

I bought another 4TB drive to put my Project Folder and Event Folder on. Everything is there, and everything gets copied there. Why is my root movie folder on my boot drive (my user account) still accumulating 150GB+ of files for this movie I'm making? I thought I had successfully put those on the new 4TB drive. The Project Folder and Event Folder on the 4TB are huge too. What's going on? Augh! I keep running out of space. How can I fix this without screwing up my film (noticed that FCP X doesn't really 're-connect' files if you point back to them like FCP7. I'm an idiot.

It sounds like FCPX is getting confused by the two copies of the same Event. I remember reading in the manual that it will use the first reference it finds, and it probably looks at the Movies folder first.
I should note that FCPX does not play well with RAID drives, nor does it work with a drive specified to host time machine backups. So you first need to confirm these two do not apply in your situation.
Next,try this:
1. Close down FCPX.
2. On your 4TB drive, rename the FCP folders so FCPX no longer sees them (this is a backup just in case things go awry, which you will end up deleting if all went well)
3. Open FCPX and go to the Project view (command-zero).
4. Select your project and in the File menu choose "Duplicate Project"
5. In the popup window, select your 4TB drive in the Location dropdown, and "Project File and Referenced Events." Press OK. FCPX should now make a copy of your project and events on the 4TB drive.
6. Wait for this background process to finish, and then quit FCPX.
7. Using the Finder, move your Project and Events folders that got copied out of their original folders in the Movies directory to another location (but don't delete them yet. this is a backup just in case things go awry, which you will end up deleting if all went well)
8. Restart FCPX; you should now see your Events and Projects that are on the 4TB drive. Confirm this and confirm all is working as it should (e.g., no missing media).
9. If you are satisfied all went well, delete the backup copies you made in steps 2 and 7.

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