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Oct 30, 2015 6:54 AM in response to paytonmossby norm123,Hey paytonmoss,
I understand that your are having issues with iMovie crashing when you start a new project or opening a previous version. I can understand any frustration that might bring but lets see if we can figure out what is going.
The first thing I want to point out is that you are going to be doing troubleshooting to find the fix as opposed to fix right away.
What you want to start with is making sure that your movie projects are backed up to an external drive. You can do that manually by dragging and dropping to the external drive or if you use Time Machine, you are good to go.
Once you have a back up in place, you will want to test out iMovie in another user. This will test to see if the issue is something that is system wide or user specific. Once you have figured that out then you might need to delete iMovie and download it again from the Mac App Store.
Take a look at the articles below for more troubleshooting ideas and the steps on deleting apps and downloading them again.
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201516
OS X El Capitan: Install, update, and uninstall apps
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21867
Download your past purchases
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201272
Let me know if this helps or if you need further assistance with this.
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Nov 5, 2015 5:46 PM in response to norm123by paytonmoss,I just wanted to note that if I delete the iMovie app, I don't think it would be possible to redownload it, because I have the 09 version and it cost 14.99 for the new one.
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Nov 6, 2015 12:13 PM in response to paytonmossby Nubz N.,Hello paytonmoss,
I would check to see if you have the install disks for iLife '09 which would have your version of iMovie. If you do, then you can delete iMovie without issue and then reinstall it from the install disk.
Updating to the latest version is an option but do understand that if you are happy with iMovie '09 and don't want to pay for an upgrade.
I would still try the troubleshooting software article that I previously mentioned before going through to deleting iMovie.
Let me know what you fine out
Take care

