Scratch disk on external drive

How do you get FCE to store captured media onto the external drive? I believe the scratch disk folder is where media is stored, so do I drag folders to the external drive? The drive has been formated to Mac.

From the menu bar, select Final Cut Express>System Settings.
On the Scratch Disk tab, click the <Set> button and designate your external firewire drive as your scratch disk.

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