iMovie vanished and cannot open imovieevent file backup

Hi,

When you do the delete preferences procedure iMovie opens in a new blank library. Your project won't be in it. To get back to your project you need to reopen your original library that contains the projects. To do that, close iMovie after you have done the delete preferences procedure. Then go to your Movies folder (Finder Menu/Go/Home/Movies). Your iMovie library will be in there, unless you moved it elsewhere, in which case you would need to navigate to where you moved it. Double click on the icon of the library that contains your project and iMovie will open in that library, where you can access your project.

Stay out of the Show Package Contents folder. Poking around in there can run the risk of corrupting your library.

If you still have no luck, you can retrieve your project by opening a previous backup of your library in the iMovie backups folder.

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

 NOTE:  If running Ventura, in the above file path substitute iMovie for com.apple.iMovieApp.  So, for Ventura,

the file path would read:

 Go/Home/Library/Containers/iMovie/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

Glad that you found a fix.

-- Rich