How to open iMovie project

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How to open iMovie project

I created a project then moved the iMovie folder to external hard drive. Now iMovie does not recognize the project. The folder that has the project shows up in gray and unable to open.

MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6), MacBook

Posted on Feb 5, 2011 7:02 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 5, 2011 7:33 PM in response to skquez

Move your project back to the Movies/iMovie Projects folder on your internal drive.
In iMovie 08 it is possible to move Events to an external drive if you do it from within iMovie. However, projects must stay on the internal drive.

If you upgrade to iMovie 09 or 11, projects can also be moved to an external drive, but the move needs to be done in iMovie.

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Answer 2

Sep 11, 2013 9:20 AM in response to AppleMan1958

I have recently solved a similar issue and would like to note that even though I moved the file back to the projects folder I was not able to open it until I removed the copy from my external hard drive. (I imagine that disconnecting the hard drive would also work.)

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Sep 12, 2013 10:50 PM in response to insanityoctopus

Hi, I'm having the same issue and I deleted the copy and it still won't show up. I'm using iMovie 9.0.9 from start to finish.

Thank you for any help!

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