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yetieater Author

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iMovie 10.0 and Network Drives

Hi fellow iMovie users

Having just upgraded my install following the release of the new iLife apps this evening, I am running into some trouble

I had enabled access to network and external drives for iMovie 9 and would now like to do the same with iMovie 10

In iMovie 9 this Terminal command did the trick

defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true

In the new iMovie 10 I am trying to access the iMovie library on my network drive. File > Open Library > Other... > and finally selecting the iMovie library on my network drive

Now I see a popup reading:

Libraries cannot be saved at this location

The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not supported. Select a different location.

Curious to see if anyone has a workaround or pointers.

I am looking forward to getting this working..

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 7:44 PM

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MacSjon1

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10 points

Posted on Oct 27, 2013 4:40 PM

iMovie is asking for a disk that is correctly formated. You're not able to format your NAS in the correct way so you need to create a disk image that is in the correct format. That image can be created on the NAS

disk utility - new image

Save as: your-name

Where: Network share

Name: your-name

Size: Custom

Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Encryption: none

Partitions: Single partition - Apple partition map

Image Format: sparse disk image

(google can help)

Your disk image will mount as a fully functional disk which can be used for iMovie to store your library

(can someone explain the differance between sparse bundle disk image and sparse disk image?)

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Aug 23, 2014 9:57 PM in response to yetieater

Looks like we have some good news ahead. I was playing around with iMovie 10.0.5 on a certain operating system public beta 2 and it let me connect to my unRAID server over SMB, create a new library directly to disk (no image required), and copy and edit projects on the network disk. Oddly enough this didn’t work if I connected over AFP ("Libraries cannot be saved at this location | The format of the selected hard disk or network volume is not supported. Select a different location.”). When I switched back to 10.9.4 and tried this I got several errors resulting in broken projects.

Fingers crossed this doesn’t disappear.

Aug 16, 2015 5:29 AM in response to barakthecat

Seems it not made it in the production release😟

It's still not possible to create or open a library on afp or smb shares.

The wokrarround with the sparseimage is one solution, but for me a little bit dangerous. A little damage on the sparsefile and complete content is gone. And using it over network, the risk is even higher. I knew this problem from timemachine sparseimages. So I will be warned.

Maybe using the good old "NFS" is a better solution than afp/smb with sparseimages. You can mount a nfs-share easy with cmd-k in finder and "nfs://servername/share". (Maybe you have to enable nfs protocol on your NAS and give the host permissions).

Creating or opening an iMovie-Library on this nfs-shares works like charm.

I have try this with OSX10.10.5 and iMovie 10.0.9 and QNAP-NAS.

Rettster

Level 1

12 points

Jul 28, 2016 8:58 AM in response to MacSjon1

Spot on worked for me too, amazing been running round the houses on that one.

Tom

BossC7

Level 1

12 points

Aug 17, 2017 5:37 AM in response to MacSjon1

Your solution worked masterfully, these forums and the people in them are so helpful! Thanks MacSjon1

iMovie 10.0 and Network Drives