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I am trying to open an iMovie Library stored on an external disk and I get the error message "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied - “iMovie Library 1” is already in use by “me” on “my-imac”.

Can anyone advise how can I get around the 'permission denied'?

Posted on Jan 10, 2020 11:24 AM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2020 12:48 PM

Try it in Safe Mode...


Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?

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I am trying to open an iMovie Library stored on an external disk and I get the error message "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied - “iMovie Library 1” is already in use by “me” on “my-imac”.

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