Hi
May be - But it is way out of my league.
BUT the lesson I try to get true to iMovie users are.
DO NOT - move or alter any filder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
OR ALIKE on DeskTop/Finder
If one does the connection back to iMovie is BROKEN and it will be anything from Hard to Impossibly to repair it.
iMovie DIFFERS in the way it use folders as Libraries - (other program hides them and Lock them to keep them intact) - and though it is possibly to fiddle around with the material in them it usually back-fires and stop working.
Few times I think it's a good thing to hide material - but in regard to iMovie Event's and Project's this would have saved lot's of people from taking a Chance then blowing the whole thing Material and Project. MY VERY PERSONAL THOUGHT.
my notes in regard to - Moving Event's and Project's
Connection - Either connect one Mac in Target mode to the other via FireWire. Or use an external hard disk !
(Target-Mode - Start one Mac e.g. laptop - BUT keep T-key down during full up-start - Now a FW-symbol is jumping around the screen and it will work as an external hard disk when connected to the other Mac)
A. The External Hard Disk - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work for Video. UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange works for most other things but not for Video whatever program is used (iMovie or FinalCut)
B. Should be a FireWire one as USB/USB2 performs badly to me and especially when filling up
C. Do never Move or Alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
on DeskTop/Finder - as this will result in iMovie losing connections to them and repair can be anything from hard to impossibly
D. Moving and Copying must be done within iMovie application and Events to Events - and - Project's to Project's.
E. Moving Project's to Event's - Do not work for me - I have to export project as a QuickTime movie then Import this into Events.
Event's window can show two faces
Like this
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or like this
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from one hard disk Event - You can move it to the other hard disk
You can not (at least not me) move Event to Project or other way around only
Event to Event and Project to Project
CONCLUSION: Try to move EVERYTHING back to it's proper folder and iMovie might be able to find it. iMovie has no "Search for lost material" function - AT ALL.
Yours Bengt W
