Deleting iPhoto events in iMovie

I do want to delete my iPhoto events / movies from the list in iMovie. For some reason I can only delete events / clips that were imported other than from iPhoto.

Does anyone know how to get rid of them? I checked the filestructure to possibly delete manually, but I cannot pinpoint files in either the iPhoto package (which increased tremondously after the initial import) or other places were these thumbnail files etc. are storted.

Anyone got a hint how to go about?

Note: I am aware that getting into the files manually poses a risk and I do keep backups to restore... in case. So risky hints are also welcome 😉

Dirk

G5 1.8 Dual,3.5GB, PB 12" WITH FW, iPhone 3G, iPod 3G, iPod 5G, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Jul 24, 2009 11:05 AM

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Jul 24, 2009 1:31 PM in response to AppleMan1958

since its about 1300 files, that would be the way I would not want to do it...... what I am looking for is a way to at least erase the references from iMovie to iPhoto and erase the thumbnails it created. Kind of put it back to the "virgin" condition, of where it asks if it should import iPhoto files.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:16 PM in response to Dirk Eckert

I am also puzzled by this loss of disk space when iMovie imports iPhoto for the first time. Would also like to reclaim that space back.

Here may be the solution: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9415197&#9415197

Not sure if it would work to delete the movies in the data folder in iPhoto.
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