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Q: How do I create the iMovie 10 library on a different HD?

I can't create the iMovie library because there's not enough room on the hard drive.

 

I have a hard drive that's more than half full with iMovie 9 events.

 

I can't create an iMovie 10 library on this drive, because there's no room for both the original events and the new library, which would be the same size as the original event.

 

How do I create an iMovie 10 library on a different hard drive , from the iMovie 9 events on my old hard drive?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 10:17 PM

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A:

OK -- the answers above didn't really solve the problem, although they are on the right track.

 

Once again -- the problem was that I had over 2TB of iMovie 11 "events" on a 4TB drive.  No way to automatically update to an iMovie 10 library because there wasn't enough room on the drive.

 

So ... here are the steps I used to solve the problem:

 

1 -- bought another 4TB drive

2 -- changed the name of "iMovie Events" on the OLD DRIVE to "iMovie Eventz" so iMovie 10 wouldn't recognize it

3 -- created a folder on the new drive called "iMovie Events"

4 -- copied events from the old drive in 250GB batches into the new "iMovie Events" folder on the new drive

5 -- opened iMovie 10 and selected File>Update Projects and Events

6 -- when it's done creating the the iMovie 10 library, delete the old events from the NEW Drive

7 -- if you have multiple iMovie 10 libraries (you will), drag events from one library into another to copy them there.  Use file>Close Library to close the library you've copied the movies FROM.  Delete that library in the finder.

8 -- repeat steps 4-7 until all your old events are in a new iMovie 10 library on the new drive.

 

It's a pain in the neck, but you only need to do it once and it works.

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 6:55 PM

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  • by UKBradTheissen,

    UKBradTheissen UKBradTheissen Dec 23, 2013 9:45 AM in response to UKBradTheissen
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    Dec 23, 2013 9:45 AM in response to UKBradTheissen

    SURE ENOUGH!  There is a way!

     

    Just as with iPhoto, hold the OPTION key when you click to launch iMovie!  Keep it held down until iMovie presents you with a dialogue box, asking which project you want to open, OR if you with to create a NEW project, on ANY drive of your choice.

     

    THANK YOU Apple for being consistent across various Apps!

  • by bnombe,

    bnombe bnombe Jan 5, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Scott Shuchart
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    Jan 5, 2014 10:10 PM in response to Scott Shuchart

    Agreed with your assessment that it's accomplished with hard links.  As for it potentially little dangerous, I suppose it's only so in hands of the adventurous users who try to goof around and executing some ill-advised sequence of commands in Terminal.  The typical users are safe although the strange appearance of hdd holding double copies of iMovie files that should overflow the drive is definitely confusing to anyone who is even just slightly observant.

     

    At any rate, I fall into the typical user who doesn't goof around "under the OS X hood" (even though I could with my professional training).  I just made sure I have additional backup just in case and followed what Apple says in this article (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5917) to clean up the old iMovie folders and files after updating all to new library.  All went well and my drive did get a bit of space freed up (about 20GB with a 570GB library).  It wasn't the little bit of space I was after, I am glad to clean out the old library files so my on-going backup can stay clean too :)

  • by UKBradTheissen,

    UKBradTheissen UKBradTheissen Jan 6, 2014 8:31 AM in response to bnombe
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    Jan 6, 2014 8:31 AM in response to bnombe

    You didn't read my post, one above yours.

     

    SURE ENOUGH!  There is a way!

     

    Just as with iPhoto, hold the OPTION key when you click to launch iMovie!  Keep it held down until iMovie presents you with a dialogue box, asking which project you want to open, OR if you with to create a NEW project, on ANY drive of your choice.

     

    THANK YOU Apple for being consistent across various Apps!

  • by Thicot01,

    Thicot01 Thicot01 Jan 17, 2014 5:32 AM in response to Michael59
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    Jan 17, 2014 5:32 AM in response to Michael59

    Thanks Michael,

     

    I was so confused using imovie for the first time that I did not notice this trick! I have now moved my Library to an external disk by creating a new one and copying contents from imovie and you can even choose which library you want to open by holding "option" whilst opening imovie.

  • by UKBradTheissen,

    UKBradTheissen UKBradTheissen Jan 17, 2014 6:44 AM in response to Thicot01
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    Jan 17, 2014 6:44 AM in response to Thicot01

    Just hold down the Option key as you launch iMovie 10.  A file system box will appear, asking you where you want to create the new proejct.  Just like with iPhoto.

  • by McIntire,

    McIntire McIntire Jan 29, 2014 1:39 AM in response to UKBradTheissen
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    Jan 29, 2014 1:39 AM in response to UKBradTheissen

    Should I manually move the Sharing, and Camera Archives folders as well? Also, if you move Theater, iMovie just makes a new one on the boot drive. Any way to fix this, or is that unnecessary because they should all be in iCloud?

  • by McIntire,

    McIntire McIntire Jan 29, 2014 2:26 AM in response to McIntire
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    Jan 29, 2014 2:26 AM in response to McIntire

    Further to my post immediately preceding this one, I just discovered iCloud only permits uploads up to 15 minutes.

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