FCX folders explanation please?

[Craig Alan]

The OP seemed a bit more frustrated than a couple of extra files being written to the system drive.

“If for some reason I’m unique than my question is “what folders are supposed to exist where”?

“I’ve never experienced a program priding itself on being so intuitive, simple, and easy, and yet achieving the exact opposite.”

Have you ever looked into how many files MS Office creates?

But yeah didn’t address the specific question and thought it was a more basic question and that these remnants were mentioned only because he thought he had moved the projects and events folders wholesale and wondered if these need to be on the system drive.

Considering that I have every intention of reformatting a system drive if it ever gets muddy or needs a major update with a complete reinstall, it’s a valid concern. I also suspect that if one were real careful in always selecting a non-system drive to save projects and events to, and the original projects and events folders were deleted from the system drive, you might be able to not see them reappear. Not sure. I did try this after moving a project to my media drive and erasing the system drive projects folder. It worked. No new projects folder. But I have not tried adding an effect. The original poster is correct, it’s a bit messy. Considering the rumor is that Apple will be merging the projects and events libraries, this too shall pass (maybe).

Still the OP seemed more frustrated than curious.

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[Howard Libov]

Long time after your initial response… If i have several external drives, can i name the fcpx events and projects folders differently? Its confusing to have several drives, all with identical event/project folder names.

Thx