Sequence unrendering when external drive is moved

Hey there,
I'm having difficulty moving a project from one edit suite to another. All of the media and render files are on an external HD. When opened on the originating system, the sequence is fully rendered. When I take the external over to another system, most of the audio and video becomes unrendered. All of the necessary files are on the external, I don't get the missing/unconnected files warning on startup, and all the FCP settings are the same. Re-rendering time is substantial - I need to resolve this for subsequent moves. I'm sharing between two dual-core intel Macpros, external is WD, project is DVCProHD 1080i.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.

film_fish wrote:
The sequence is 45 min and very effect heavy. QT exports take 90 minutes or more, even if "self contained" is unselected. If I can't move the project intact, there's no point.
Thanks anyways!
Wish we had better advice for you or a solution. I just moved a project from my machine to our other FCP machine (FCS3 and OS10.5+) and all of the render files immediately connected so I have nothing helpful to suggest except to check is the system prefs to make sure the render scratch is correctly set. You might change the location deliberately to a weird disk, quit FCP, relaunch, and then reset it.
Hope you get it fixed. If you do, please tell us what you did. Luck.
bogiesan

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