Unable to open projects from an external hard drive... Help??

Ok, so here's the problem.  I recently moved all of my projects onto my external hard drive (G-Drive) and now I am unable to open them in FCP X.  All of the projects were originally created using FCP, opened them using FCP X this morning, saved again to my hard drive but now they won't show up.  Am I overlooking something?? I haven't changed any settings or touched the projects since they were last opened in FCP X and moved onto my hard drive.  Has anyone accessed projects off an external yet in FCP X??
Thanks for your help,
Katie

Sorry, Katie, but as many of us found out very painfully today, Final Cut Pro X cannot open any edit files from any earlier version.  The fact they are on an external drive doesn't matter. 

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