Moving Imovie library to onedrive...?

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Moving Imovie library to onedrive...?

Apparently it's possible to move an imovie library to an "external drive"

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203049

But is possible to move it to OneDrive? My Mac is set up to believe that OneDrive is a kind of storage you see seamlessly in Finder. It's a company setup. I would think of doing this only for archive/less active projects where I might want to copy over the occasional resource to a new library.

Anyone dared try this? What happened?

thanks

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on May 28, 2021 10:46 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 1, 2021 2:20 AM in response to Rich839

Could an Imovie Library be stored on OneDrive in suspended animation? As in, unmounted/detached (thinking back to tape drives... ).

Or would parking a not-in-active-use-but-want-to-retain Imovie Library somewhere offroad from the Mac universe destroy it as information would be lost?

thanks for your advice!

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Answer 2

Jun 1, 2021 2:44 AM in response to ApplePiePerson

I have no idea whether this would work but as with most things in life it is probably worth trying.

Control (right) click on the Library and select "Compress" from the contextual menu.

Once uploaded you won't be able to access it directly but you can always download it to your Mac and open it in iMovie.

You could test this quickly with a small ("Test") Library to see how well it works.

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Answer 3

Jun 2, 2021 1:27 AM in response to ApplePiePerson

Programs like iMovie need a specific environment in order to work but the Library is just a file made of ones and zeros so it shouldn't matter where it is stored or moved.

As with everything, the only way to be sure it works is to try it out.

Practical experiment supersedes all the theory in the world. 😇

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Rich839

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May 28, 2021 11:20 AM in response to ApplePiePerson

OneDrive is a cloud service and so you cannot store an iMovie on it.

iMovie must be stored on a physical drive that is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or APFS.

-- Rich

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Rich839

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May 28, 2021 1:52 PM in response to Rich839

Where I said "iMovie" in my previous post, read "iMovie Library".

-- Rich

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Answer 6

Jun 2, 2021 1:08 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Thanks - if it's not known not to work it's worth trying. Q around whether there are important filestore characteristics that don't survive the transitions.

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