Q: iMovie projects "lost" on External Hard Drive
I tried to move several iMovie 11 projects and events to an external hard drive. Had to split them up between four different partitions in the EHD. Now I can't open/see the projects in iMovie, but they are listed on the EHD. HELP--is it possible to retrieve them?
Posted on Jan 28, 2016 8:32 AM
On your EHD your events and projects should be in Folders called Imovie Events and iMovie Projects.
These folders are generated by iMovie.
I am guessing that when you moved them to the EHD you put them in folders that you created and named(?????).
Try this.
With your EHD connected open iMovie.
You should see your EHD (4 partitions?) in the Event Library on the left. Click on this (one partition) to select it and select File >New Event.
You should see a New Event(todays date) generated on this EHD.
Now select the EHD in the Project Library and File>New Project. This will generate a new Project on your EHD.
I am guessing you will need to do the above for each partition as you have spread events and projects to 4 partitions.
Close iMovie.
You should now see on your EHD, in each partition. folders called iMovie Events and iMovie Projects, hopefully not to be confused with folder names that you may have created.
Just do one Event and one Project first to test the following.
Drag one of your Events into this newly created iMovie Events Folder and one of your iMovie Projects into the newly created iMovie Projects folder.
Open up iMovie. Can you see this Event and Project now?
If this works proceed to drag your Events and Projects into these new events and project folders.
One thing that may be a problem,is that you have divided up to four partitions so a Project may not be linked to it's Event.
This would depend on how you selected which Event and which Project went on which Partition, as I am assuming that each partition is seen as a separate "Hard Drive".
Posted on Jan 28, 2016 6:36 PM