I thought everything was saving to the external drive -- I'm wrong -- help me move it all!

Yes, that's the icon, so it is a library.

My laptop drive is 250GB and my external is 2TB. I bought it for FCP exclusively.

I have 1GB left on my laptop hard drive.

I selected "Untitled" on the left side of FCP. Yes, I did just begin making a thing under Untitled, I guess. The inspector shows me that it's 110GB and it's stored on my laptop hard drive, which is why I only have 1GB of space left when I should have over 100GB of space left.

I would like the Untitled library to a) be stored on my external drive and b) for FCP to default to always creating/storing things on my external drive, and not on my laptop. I don't know how to make this happen. I'm in the middle of this project and I don't want to lose anything.

If you want I can take screen shots of everything and label them...?

Yes, I know the system drive is too full. It's why I want to move all of the FCP stuff over. But I don't know how to tell FCP to put things on the external drive instead of into the Movie folder on my computer. So even if I move the Untitled library (and rename it) and then delete it from my system drive, FCP will just carry on saving stuff to the Movies folder on my system drive. How do I tell it not to do that?

I think maybe I'm not being clear. I know where it's stored. It's stored on my laptop. I want it to be stored on my external drive, and I want to make sure Final Cut Pro *always* does *everything* on my external drive, and never creates a file on my system drive again.

There must be a setting somewhere I can adjust to tell FCP where I want it to do all of its work. Also I need to tell it where the "Untitled" library is once I move it.

No I didn't move it yet because it says it will take 14 hours. I will do it overnight and then do what you say here. I still don't think I'm asking the right questions because I'm not getting the answer to "where do I go in FCP to tell it to always create/save on the external drive." Usually there's a setting like "Save new projects to $PLACE" and you can change the place.

Yeah I can delete the Untitled library LOL Not much else the Untitled library takes up almost half of my drive I don't really have a full drive at all I keep it pretty pared down with excess stuff on external drives

I'm trying to tell you that I want to move the Untitled library to my external hard drive so I can erase it from my system drive to free up space. Obviously I don't want to *throw it away*. Hence the "LOL"

Yes, and in response to your question about if there was stuff I could delete, I made a joke about the Untitled library (which is causing all of my problems), and then I wrote, "Not much else. The Untitled library takes up almost half of my drive. I don't really have a full drive at all; I keep it pretty pared down, with excess stuff on external drives."

If there were something I could delete to free up space, I would do it.

Hi Luis - I transferred the "untitled" library to my external drive overnight. It is the right size (110GB) as it was yesterday. I deleted it from my laptop drive. I have been working on the project today, and out of curiosity I opened up my Movies folder on the laptop drive just now, and there's a new "untitled" library there that's 207K. I checked the properties of the library "Untitled" on FCP right now, and it says it's on the external drive. So what the F is on my laptop?

How do I make FCP stop putting the library in my Movies folder on my laptop???