iMovie Project Folders

O.K. By removing the projects from the Show Package Contents and then deleting them from there you likely corrupted your iMovie library. You must never remove, delete, or modify anything in the Show Package Contents folders or you risk corrupting your iMovie library.

Try looking in the iMovie backups folder to access a previous backup of your iMovie library and see if you can recover your projects. To get to the iMovie Backups folder, follow this file path from the Finder menu:

Go/Home/Library/Containers/com.apple.iMovieApp/Data/Library/Caches/iMovieBackups

When you get there you will see a list of previous backups of your iMovie library.  Click on one dated just before your issue started.  iMovie will open in that library.   Navigate to your projects browser (where your projects are displayed as icons) and see if your projects are intact.

-- Rich

Hi,

What version of iMovie did you use to create the old project folders? What steps did you take to move the project folders? Did you move the individual projects or the folder containing the projects? What steps did you take to move the project folder back, and where where you trying to move them to?

-- Rich