Where is my project archive?

I am trying to share my Final Cut Pro X project with my co-worker. I am able to select "Duplicate Project", which simply makes a copy of the same project back into my Library.
From watching several tutorials, I know I am supposed to be able to click "Duplicate Project" and a promp is supposed to ask me whether I want to duplicate the entire Library, or just the Project. But I can't get that promp to appear. Right-clicking on the project and choosing "duplicate project" simply makes a copy of the project inside my library. But what if I want to send that project to my co-worker? And what if I want to duplicate the entire Library and share that with my coworker as well?
The tutorial also shows a button on the bottom left of the screen that looks like a back arrow with a film reel inside of it. I believe it's supposed to be the Project Archive, from which I am also supposed to be able to duplicate projects.
But the Project Archive button does not exist in my copy of FCP X, and I can't get it to show up. It's almost like I'm running a different version of the program than the one in the tutorial. What am I missing??? I am running version 10.1.1 of FCP X, which I purchased through the App Store.

Since it's external media, does that mean I have to copy it manually through the Finder, as opposed to duplicating the Library from within FCP?
No, when you copy the library to the other drive it will copy with symlinks to the original location. You then need to consolidate the new library in the new location to copy the media into the new library. This will not move the media; it will copy it from one drive to the other, just the files that are used in the project of course. If you want to get them out on the new library onto a new external location on the other drive, you can consolidate again and this time select to move the files into a new exetrnal location on the new drive, which will replace the files inside the new library with symlinks to the new external location. Make sense? Everything can be done and should be done from inside FCP.

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