The 'Correct way' to move source files

So chalk me up as another person having issues with relinking files that have been moved in the finder. I don't understand how this can be such an issue but FCPX just won't relink them.
Anyway amongst all the threads of others having this issue there is no clear remedy if you have already done it but several people have commented ' you should have used FCPX to move the files. '
How do you do this ? Since thered is no file tree in FCPX how on earth do you use it to move the files ? The only structural tree there is is for the events and the way I have been working, my events are all saved on one drive but they don't contain the source files, only references to them. So dargging and dropping the events onto another drive wouldn't be the solution.
Any help much appreciated.....

OK, so then I don't know what you're trying to do.
When I import, I do not have the check box set to move the files to the project folder. Therefore the files reside on an external drive and in the 'originals' folder, FCPX just puts a reference (an alias ).
What I want to do, is move the location of those files on the external drive, call it drive A, which is now full, to drve B, a new drive.
That's the bit that seems like a really common necessity to me.
But doing this obviously breaks the references and trying to re-link them it tells me the framerates are wrong. Which is incorrect, because how could simply dragging a file from one drive to another change the framerate ?
That can happen. It depednds on how you moved the files and where you moved thme to. If you moved the refrerneced files at the finder level and are trying to relink them you try to do this at the finder level.
Yes I moved them at the finder level, what other ways are there to do it ? That's the exact question I'm asking, is there another way I should have done it.
How do you re-link at finder level ? Is that what you are suggesting ?
That's correct. That's common in most database driven applications.
That would be fine, but then why offer you the option to leave the files in their original location when importing ? That's where this all starts to go south because that's the one loophole to get out of their organizational methods. If they had forced me from the beginning to conform to their method entirely then I wouldn't be in this mess. It seems like they haven't condisered the ramifications of that option.

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