iMovie '11 missing events and projects

OK, problem solved. Turned out someone (read "toddler") had moved the entire Movies folder into another folder. When I clicked Movies in the sidebar, I saw all the events and projects, but I couldn't tell that they had been moved out of the home folder. I randomly went to the Movies folder another way (not through the sidebar) and noticed it only had a default Projects folder with no projects and no events. When I moved everything back into the right spot, it all started working.

Best,

Eric

I tried EVERYTHING in the thread and I have the same problem still. I am using a brand new 27" iMac and I migrated my data, apps, etc. using the migration assistant from my old mac. *** do I do now? The only thing I see is a folder called iPhoto Videos that has all the vides in my entire iPhoto library, but I don't see any events or projects. This is the first time in 6 years as a Mac user that I want to tear my hair out.

Allright a comment from me. Was stuck with a semi white iMovie, and no project or anything.

I tried the delete prefs file several times, did a reindex of my mac, restarts etc. No luck.

Tried the delete prefs again .,,, still nothing.

UNTIL, I opened my non working imovie 10.0.1, with the empty white workspace, I went iMovie->Preferences, clicked and unclicked some preferences a few times, restarted iMovie, and I guess new correct pref's files were created.

That did the job for me. One SEMI happy camper again, peewwwww, LOTS of projects were about to go ALL the way out the drain.

I can see them, only the final projects are gone. But, I did save them as files once as backup, so I'll continue with my new project from here on.

Shhhhhiiiiit, dont mess with my work Apple 🙂 Give me more backup options in this program, and transparency on how to backup and restore. This is one of my iMovie files btw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VmjEG76xJQ (Under Water Rugby)

Rgds

Jakob

UPDATE: Guess what, the file compilatione, the projects, were still there. WOW, happy me. Feel lucky (that the program worked again)

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Okay so I have been working so hard one this one iMovie video for about a week and today when I quit iMovie I reopened it and only that one video was gone. I don't know what to do and I really need that video back.

For those still interested, I have found a connection. It's not a fix, unfortunately, but it might prevent future projects from going MIA.

If there is ever a question mark ("?") in the title of the project, it seems to go missing, at least for me. So, at all costs, avoid putting a question mark in your title!

Hello!

I am having all of these same problems and I do not have the "com.apple.iMovieApp.plist" file.

I searched under Library/Preferences, and I also searched by typing "com.apple.iMovieApp.plist" into the Finder to see if it existed anywhere. It doesn't.

iMovie was having trouble with accessing imported files yesterday, and today when I opened it all of my work is gone and I also can't create a new project to the folder where all of my other projects were - all of the content is 100% gone. I click the create button, select movie, select my theme, attempt to save the file and the error is "The operation could not be completed. No other information is available about the problem."

I need my other files back... help?!?

Sorry, found what I was looking for AFTER I typed my question/message....

I cannot find Library > Preferences once I went to "Users" and "[my account]"... Would be able to help?

sandyb333 wrote:

I cannot find Library > Preferences once I went to "Users" and "[my account]"... Would be able to help?

How to view your User/Library folder....

In Lion or Mountain Lion: http://www.macworld.com/article/1161156/view_library_folder_in_lion.html

In Mavericks: http://www.macworld.com/article/2057221/how-to-view-the-library-folder-in-maveri cks.html

Thanks so much for providing this solution. If there is no file called com.apple.iMovieApp.plist, am I out of luck? We're desperate to find a video project weeks in the making. Any help you can provide would be greatly welcomed!

Amy