How to delete iMovie clips etc and place on external drive?
I'm trying to clean up my hard drive by removing clips etc. and putting them on an external drive. How do I do this?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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The important thing is to do everything from within iMovie and not with the Finder.
- Create a new library on your external hard disk (which must be Mac-formatted - HFS+ journalled).
- Copy (not Move) the events from the old to the new library (so that the library on your internal drive is preserved until you have made sure that everything is fine with your new library on the external drive).
For full details see: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
Its possible that the new new library still references files on your internal disk. To make sure it contains actual copies of all files that are required it is advisable to select your new library and Consolidate Media. See:
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov882dee351
for details
- If everything is working fine in the new library you can delete the old one.
Geoff.