How do you re-locate an I-movie project that disappears from the project / edit library in i-movie11?

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How do you re-locate an I-movie project that disappears from the project / edit library in i-movie11?

As a school teacher, I viewed the student's movie project in edit mode and I known it was there. The student was attempting to burn the project to a disc to back it up and it disappeared. The raw video clips are still sitting there but the edited project is no longer visible. I've searched the computer but can't find it anywhere. I think the student renamed the project as they were preparing yo back it up. Any advice on how to locate the project would be appreciated.

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Posted on Aug 23, 2011 6:14 AM

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AppleMan1958

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Aug 23, 2011 6:30 AM in response to Biro Tomodachi

iMovie will only see projects that are in the Home/Movies/iMovie Projects folder (or in the iMovie Projects folder at the top level of an external drive).

Your student may have moved the project somewhere else. If so, the solution is to move it back, and then restart iMovie.

The project will have a file extension of .rcproject.

If you do not know where he might have moved the project, try doing a Spotlight Search on rcproject, and they should all come up. (Spotlight is in the top right corner of your screen).

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Aug 23, 2011 2:55 PM in response to AppleMan1958

Thank you. I'll try your suggestions today.

A friend mentioned there was a function called "terminal" that allows users to look at a listing of all the actions undertaken on that computer but I haven't been able to locate this feature. Do you know anything about this?

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