Saving FCP files

I don't know the proper way to save files in progress. Sometimes when I open final cut the project opens, sometimes its in "recent", but a lot of times an older version comes up and I have to end up going through the autosave vault and finding the latest version of my edit. I have the scratch disk set to an external hard drive (which I always have hooked up when im using FCP), my autosave vault is set to my Mac HD. I hit "save" but where the heck is it going and what is the proper protocol to save projects so when I go to work on it again its the latest version and not an old version.
thanks

Just like any other application in which you can create and save documents (files), FCP will save it wherever you tell it to. When you open a new project, the default name that FCP gives it is "Untitled Project 1." The VERY FIRST STEP you should do is go to File->Menu->Save As and give the project a unique name and then tell FCP where you want to store the file.
The normal location to save project files is on your boot drives' user folder.
-DH

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Command: Compressor
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