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Q: Upgrading iMovie from v9.0.9 to v10 with projects and events on external HD

Seem to be running into an issue using iMovie v10 post-upgrade...

 

I run iMovie v9.0.9 with many projects and events on several external (multi-TB) hard drives. They would not fit on my primary HD due to sheer file size.

 

I was able to upgrade to v10, but when I tried to convert my existing iMovie library, my primary HD suddenly got a disk out of space error. It appears that the library conversion process is consolidating project and event files from the external drives onto the primary drive. Is this to be expected? Are external drives still supported with iMovie v10?

 

Not sure the best way to proceed, other than to continue using the old library and iMovie v9.0.9 (which thankfully still works) and try to descipher what files to delete from my now-full primary drive.

OS X Mavericks (10.9), iMovie v10 (2013)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:02 AM

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  • by Rich Rydalch,

    Rich Rydalch Rich Rydalch Nov 28, 2015 1:11 PM in response to SiriusStargazer
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    Nov 28, 2015 1:11 PM in response to SiriusStargazer

    Can I resurrect this discussion? I hope so because I have a question and hopefully some helpful hints.

    In your post you said the "Update" process converted you external files. If that is true then my question is answered. I have numerous external drives with tons of movies and DO NOT want to be required to copy them to my main drive for updating.

    I have also been reading on how to move movies to an external drive in iMovie 10. Here's what I found works best:

    To Move Movie to External Drive:

    Create a new Library on the external drive (File>Open Library>New), name the library whatever you want. Now go to the base view where it shows "Media-Projects-Theater", right-click (control-click) on the movie, select "Move to Library", select the Library where you want the movie and files related to that movie to move to. And voile, it moves to your external.

     

    BTW, be aware that iMovie v9 DOES NOT work with El Capitan!!

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