Export/Import iMovie Project

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Export/Import iMovie Project

I screwed up and am trying to fix my mistake. My wife spent hours creating an iMovie project. I got her a new computer and was trying to move her project from one computer to the other. I found the project she was working on by right clicking on the iMovie library and clicking "show package contents". I moved the project from the iMovie library to our iCloud Drive, thinking I could then just open it on the new computer... but it isn't working.

I haven't deleted any of the associated files, and I now understand I should have added it to a new iMovie Library before copying it over to the new computer, but I can't seem to get it to import back into the original iMovie library, or the new one... can anyone help me please?!?!

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Posted on Nov 30, 2023 10:00 AM

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Answer 1

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Rich839

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Nov 30, 2023 1:47 PM in response to snuffaluffagus

If you keep a Time Machine backup you can restore your iMovie library to a point in time that precedes your moving of the project.

Or, alternatively, go to the iMovie backups folder and open a previous backup of your iMovie library that precedes the time when you moved the project out of the Show Package Contents.

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 or later, 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.

In the future, it is safest to stay out of the library Show Package Contents folder.

-- Rich

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Answer 2

Nov 30, 2023 10:10 AM in response to snuffaluffagus

Just to further clarify... here is a screenshot of the project that I pulled out of my iMovie library and am trying to pull it back in to the iMovie library (either the original library or a new one). This folder and enclosed files are on my iCloud Drive so I can access it from either computer.

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