Every time I open iMovie it tries to export several old projects and will not let me cancel. There is no "X" in the status popup. I have trashed the preferences and restarted, but this has not worked.
This just started happening after I recently freed up some HD space by trashing a lot of old projects.
You probably should redownload iMovie. Drag your iMovie app from the Applications folder to the trash, but do not empty the trash. Then sign in to the app store and open your purchases folder by clicking on your name at the bottom of the app store side bar. You purchases will be displayed, including iMovie. Download it from there. If no success, drag your old iMovie app out of the trash and put it back in the Applications folder.
In the complex electronics world glitches inexplicably can happen. Here's a trouble shooting link that might help you isolate the problem:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206157
All else failing, you might benefit from calling Apple Support. The techs there are pretty savvy. Click on the Contact Support item in the upper right hand corner of this forum's screen and navigate to a phone number. Hopefully Support will have an answer for you.
-- Rich
You probably should redownload iMovie. Drag your iMovie app from the Applications folder to the trash, but do not empty the trash. Then sign in to the app store and open your purchases folder by clicking on your name at the bottom of the app store side bar. You purchases will be displayed, including iMovie. Download it from there. If no success, drag your old iMovie app out of the trash and put it back in the Applications folder.
In the complex electronics world glitches inexplicably can happen. Here's a trouble shooting link that might help you isolate the problem:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206157
All else failing, you might benefit from calling Apple Support. The techs there are pretty savvy. Click on the Contact Support item in the upper right hand corner of this forum's screen and navigate to a phone number. Hopefully Support will have an answer for you.
-- Rich
Try force quitting and then shutting down your Mac. If that doesn’t solve it you might consider letting the projects share out and be done with it.
Trashing the projects themselves, without deleting the media from the original media folder, doesn’t save much space because projects mostly contain reference media and not the actual originals.
— Rich
I did that. Force quit, restart, etc ... None of it worked. Letting the projects "share out" means waiting for each project to complete ... about 10 minutes each ... while it spins up the fans and uses up drive space which I'm trying to conserve on my old Macbook.
But why is it even doing this? I didn't click "Share" ... It just spontaneously started sharing old projects for no apparent reason and won't stop. Why is this even possible?
iMovie won't stop exporting.
