I'm trying to find an imovie project file in finder. I can see the project when I'm in iMovie, but when I go into user - movies - imovie projects, it doesn't appear. I've searched for file type imovieproject, and searched my external hard drive. In all these places, other project files are there, older ones, but not my current one. Any ideas? I have iMovie 10 mac OS Mavericks.
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9), imovie 10
iMovie 10 stores everything in a package which in the Finder looks like a file with extension .imovielibrary. If you right-click "Show package contents" you can see what's inside. The "iMovie Projects" folder you are looking at is from iMovie 9 so it won't contain any projects that you have created since you updated to iMovie 10.
iMovie 10 stores everything in a package which in the Finder looks like a file with extension .imovielibrary. If you right-click "Show package contents" you can see what's inside. The "iMovie Projects" folder you are looking at is from iMovie 9 so it won't contain any projects that you have created since you updated to iMovie 10.
Good to know, thanks GeeD!
I tried this. My file does not show in package contents even though it is in iMovie. Any other suggestions?
If by "file" you mean a project folder then it must be in your old iMovie 9 iMovie Projects folder rather than in an iMovie 10 library. The default location for that is the <username>/Movies folder on your boot drive. You can update it to iMovie 10 by selecting "Update Projects and Events" from the File Menu in iMovie 10.
Geoff.
find imovie project file in Finder
