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Alan Cook2 Author

Level 3

913 points

How to Re-Locate the "iMovie Theater" Away from Boot Drive?

I have a 128 GB solid state drive for Mavericks and my apps. I have 2 TB of home movies stored on a 3TB internal drive. When I first started up the new iMovie 10, it asked if I wanted to upgrade my movies and I said yes. After grinding away for a while, my computer freaked out. The "iMovie Theater" file that is stored inside the Movies folder inside my home folder had grown to 30 GB and left exactly 0K on my 128 GB boot drive! I had to remove the boot drive, boot from a backup, and deleted the Theater file.

Does anyone know how to re-locate this Theater file to another drive?

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 6:26 PM

23 replies

Galaico

Level 1

4 points

Dec 7, 2013 4:59 AM in response to kyle_h123

kyle_h123, put a space between 'ln -s' and '/Volumes...'

Jun 29, 2014 4:05 AM in response to Alan Cook2

Many thanks, your suggestion worked fine for me.

Oct 27, 2014 7:03 PM in response to Alan Cook2

This doesn't work for me 😟 ... I did exactly what you said, gave me no errors or anything. I go back in the Movies folder and the iMovie Theater.theater is placed back in the Movies folder, even after I moved it to the new destination. All this is doing for me is putting another copy of iMovie Theater.theater back into the Movies folder...

Dec 12, 2014 10:21 PM in response to texasgameboy15x

I am having the same results. No errors when I run the ln command in terminal. But when I launch iMovie, a new theater file is created in my boot SSD drive under user\movies folder.

Proteo

Level 1

4 points

Dec 18, 2016 6:46 PM in response to Frank Su tw

Doesn't work anymore

i got os sierra

imovie 11 ( guess )

i was able to move iMovie library ( projects and events )

any ideas?

thx

Proteo

Level 1

4 points

Dec 18, 2016 6:47 PM in response to Proteo

Sorry iMovie is 10.1.4

May 2, 2017 1:34 PM in response to Alan Cook2

Yes this worked for me -- 5/2017 THANKS

Sep 17, 2017 10:22 AM in response to rchundury

Ok. It worked now. I just had to ensure I followed your instructions CAREFULLY and then I created the unix link file (iMovie Theater.theater) at the right location (~/Movies/).

How to Re-Locate the "iMovie Theater" Away from Boot Drive?