iMovie library lost after upgrade

Go to file 'update project and events'

Hi,

I also have the same kind of promblem after upgrade. In my case, after long library upgrading time, I saw an alert message, saying that "hard disk does not have an enough space to save upgraded libraries" (It's not true. I checked my HD availability and recognized my HD has an enough space though.). I quit iMovie as requested. After that, I can see file names in the iMovie pannel, but all of them are empty.

I went to file 'update project and events' as suggested, but saw the message "iMovie could not find any profects or events to update".

What shall I do next? I have backups in my timecapsule HD and an another HD.

follow http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6012

Thanks Michael59.

I followed the link you recommended. But not helpful for my issue.

• iMovie Projects and iMovie Events have to be with their original content
• if File -> update project and events doesn't help
  • quit iMovie remove "iMovie Library" and "iMovie Theater"
  • restart iMovie - import should start as after initial install and import your existing lib and projects

If there are issues during the process, check the forum as there have been quite some resolutions already for full HD etc.

I seems to be some problems with upgrading the library in iMovie 10. I found this in the forum:

"I got apple support and Nerval's right. Just to clarify, I had to place a file called "UpdatedtoiMovie10 . . " in the trash out of the iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders, located in the Movies folder.

Once I did that, I reopened iMovie 10, clicked File/Updated Projects and Events and it worked."

This will make you able to start the upgrade process again, but in my case the upgrade process just crashed again.

OK, here how its worked for me:

The new iMovie 10 does not delete the old iMovie 9.0.9 or the library.

I therefore opened iMovie 9.0.9 directly from the App-folder. My library went trough some kind of upgrade, and the old iMovie did function as normal.

There after i closed the iMovie (9.0.9) and deleted the files called "UpdatedtoiMovie10..." from the iMovie Events and iMovie Project folders. Than I opened iMovie 10 again, clicked File/Update Projects and Events.

The upgrade process takes serious long time, but it worked! I'm now on iMovie 10 with the library upgraded.

I ended up not converting my library at all. Seems that there are files that are "missing" although they are there. I will just run the legacy 9.0.9 for my old projects and anything new will be done in the new version.

Thanks Relie69 for sharing your experience.

Unfortunately, it does not work for my case though...

I still have a problem.

I could not solve the iMovie 10 issue, so I downgraded to OS 10.8.5/iMovie 9.0.9.

I will try to upgarade them after getting updata.

Thanks all.

I have found a solution. I'm surprised that Apple let this happen without immediate posting on the Forum here.

You can use Update and Projects, but only one at a time.

A. I Quit iMovie10. Then I trashed the files that all of you have been trashing...the "UpdatedtoiMovie10" files in iMovie Events and iMovie Projects. I also trashed the iMovieLibrary and iMovieTheater files.

B. What I've done is create to subdirectories, one called Events and the other called Projects and put them on my desktop.

C. Then I moved all my iMovie 9.0.9 events (don't worry you won't lose them) into Events and all my iMovie 9.0.9 projects into Projects.

D. Then I moved ONE project and ONE event back into the iMovie Project and Event subdirectories.

E. Next, I reopened iMovie10 and selected Update Events and Projects. The project and events were brought in for that one project.

F. Then I quit iMovie 10 and repeated A through E for the next project.

What won't be accurate will be the listing of which projects you updated. But who cares. Most people won't want ot move all their projects over anyway. The actual movie projects will be in the iMovie Project timeline as separate editable projects.

I am sure Apple will have a work around, because this is a pain in the rear if you have many you want to bring over.

iMovie 10.0.1 has been released to address reliability issues when updating projects and events from previous versions of iMovie. Specifically, iMovie could appear to stop responding or quit unexpectedly during the update process.

If you encountered these issues, you should now be able to update your projects and events successfully. To do this, visit the link below and follow the instructions listed in the section "If updating is interrupted or takes an extended period of time."

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6012

Thank you Relie69.

I had the same problem and I had tried in several way suggested here.

I followed your indications and it worked for me too. Now I have the complete library in the upgraded version

I did this too and it worked. Thank you so much for posting this. I was about to pull my hair out!

I recently updated my Imac to Maverick and imovie to "imovie 11".imovie once loaded had no video clips from my previous imovie library.

I found that I now had two imovie icons in the dock , one yellow (the original imovie) and one purple icon (imovie 11). When I right clicked on the yellow icon one of the items displayed read " imovie Library" I dragged this to the purple icon and my library was imediately reinstated.Easy solution I hope works for others.