Can't delete projects in iMovie 10

John,

I'm just happy that you found a solution to a frustrating problem for many.

Best to ya,

Rich

I tried moving the project but nothing comes up when I click 'Move to' ... I confirmed I can click on the 3 circles next to any other project and move to TEST but nothing comes up with this virulent project. Also, when I try to rename it, iMovie crashes.

Thanks!

Kathleen

Be sure you have multiple libraries defined or 'Move to Library' under 'Projects' will be Grayed out.

Viewed from 'Media':

Viewed from 'Projects':

I realize Mac don't need to be rebooted a lot, but if I'm having problems, especially App crashes, I'd reboot before moving forward. Just a thought.

Actually, I can save any other project to another library, just not these 2 rogue files. When I click on the circle with three dots, all the options come up. I can 'delete', I can move to ... but on these 2 files only, the other libraries don't appear to the right of 'move to'. If I choose Delete, it says 'blah blah' continue -- and when I click on continue, it doesn't delete. Both files are still there even after a restart.

This is a know bug Apple is working on and the variances seem unpredictable. I don't know the answer but I can share steps I had taken prior to calling Apple. In my case, the old un-deletable projects were created prior to iMove 10.1.2, I think 3 or 4 years ago. I had gone thru My Media in my iMove Library and insured that all the related events and all audio and video, etc had first been deleted there. Additionally, I found the file locations in Finder of all related Project/audio/video media and moved that to Trash and emptied the Trash. This was an attempt to ensure there was no vestige of the projects left on my iMac. Apple also had me run the following terminal command to ensure all my permission were correct, but doubt that was a factor. I’m not suggesting you run this but here it is: diskutil resetUserPermissions / `id -u` Hopeful this may help, if not I hope Apple will soon get a fix published.

John

Just simply double-click the project to open it in Library, and delete the whole thing in Library. Then you can delete the empty project!

Hi! Thanks for the suggestion but I'm afraid double clicking on the project does nothing. It won't even open. As mentioned above, I can choose to delete the project, it asks me if I want to continue, and then nothing happens. Attempting to rename the project causes iMovie to crash the minute I hit enter on the renamed project.

So frustrating!

Kathleen

I open the project, delete all the content and then go back to the main projects screen and delete the empty tile. I had the same problem but this worked for me.

This was perfect. Works every time. Thank you.

GREAT. Problem solved!! Many thanks, Rich.

You're very welcome! Glad it worked.

Yes same problem here. I used the method explained by jkrinddle and it worked well to delete those projects. He had the solution in August 2016. It's now March 2017,,,,,,,,,,,,, No fix Apple????????