Where are my iMovie preferences?

If you hold down the option key while opening iMovie, you will get a dialogue box giving you the option to delete

preferences. You can find the preferences by clicking on iMovie in the menu bar at the top of your screen, and selecting preferences.

You also can find iMovie preferences in the following places:

User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovie.plist

User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iMovieApp.plist

When you close iMovie and delete the above two files, they will be recreated upon relaunch of iMovie.

That said, in most situations deleting preferences usually doesn't help. But sometimes it does help and so it is a simple diagnostic starting place.

If you hold down the option key while opening iMovie, you will get a dialogue box giving you the option to delete

preferences.

A slight confusion 😁 The options-key alone will bring up the Library Chooser panel at start-up, not the "Delete Preferences" panel.

You need both keys - option-command to bring up the "Delete Preferences" dialog.

In iMOvie 10.1.2 you can delete the preferences by launching iMovie while holding down the key combination option-command ⌥⌘

Keep holding down both keys together firmly, while clicking the iMovie icon. Keep holding down the keys, until you are seeing this panel:

Click "Delete Preferences".

After you deleted the preferences, you will need to enter all preferences again in the "iMovie > Preferences".

Oops! You are right. Thanks.

You're welcome 🙂 No problem.

I forgot to mention that there are more settings/preferences that can be found by clicking on the Settings button in the middle right-hand side of your screen.

-- Rich

You are very welcome.

Cheers,

-- Rich