Karl Petersen wrote:
Has anybody found a way to specifiy the location of your videos
What is meant by "your videos"? iMovie projects? iMovie's library of imported clips? Exported movies?
iMovie 08 projects and iMovies library of imported clips. I started by trying to import a iMovie HD project located on the external disk. You can then choose whether you want the project imported to the internal disk or to any external disk. If you import to the internal disk, everything is fine, iMovie 08 puts your files somewhere inside the Movies folder, but on the external disk, it will put it in the root directory, which is pretty stupid if there are several users of that disk with their own iMovie projects and libraries.
Why are there user accounts defined on the external drive?
There aren't any
accounts defined, just directories owned by each user of the drive.
the Get Info window for the drive lets us tell the Mac to ignore permissions on an external drive.
As you have probably guessed by now, I have unchecked that, in order to make the external drive real multi user. So the external drive has per-user write, read and execute permissions just like the internal drive.
But even if I hadn't enabled permissions, I would certainly want to be able to control where on that drive iMovie puts my stuff! I don't want to buy one external hard drive to each of the 6 family members, but suppose I did: Even then I would like to be able to organize the external drive in subdirectories, and tell iMovie to e.g. stay inside a "Movie" folder on that drive.