Scratch disk FCE

I recently bought a new laptop. I had been capturing my video files on my old laptop to a external hard drive.
Today i received a message that my scratch disk was full. Upon further research it turns out i had not made the external HD the default. I have located the new FCE documents file on my laptop HD.
Do I move the filefolder to the existing file folder external HD.
or go in the FCE system settings and reset the scratch disk location? if so will the program know to move the files?
There are over 30 hours of video captured here.
My reference book has nothing on moving files.
thanks

I am in the middle of a project
I do already have the a older scratch folder on the external hard drive.(made by my old laptop)
This file the same name as my project file on the hard drive of the new laptop.
Do i still need to force FCE to make a new folder?
Or could i use the existing file on the external drive.
Its all new to me
Sorry
I have been using capture now. Then sifting through all the footage.

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