iMovie 10.1.2: How to Move Project and Events to External

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iMovie 10.1.2: How to Move Project and Events to External

How do move a Project and Events to an external drive?

First of all, I don't see a way in 10.1.2 to move a project to an media library on an external drive at all.

Second, I imported in one event an old home movie (about 2 hours long with 5 clips), and then created five different Projects. I tried to export the main event with all the clips (that were referenced by the 5 different projects) to an external by holding down the Command key and then dragging the event within iMovie to the media library which is on an external drive (all within iMovie). All the clips were moved over, but for the projects that stayed on the internal, iMovie made copies of the clips that those projects referenced. Very odd. If I could move the projects to the external drive, I think this at least solve my problem of freeing up some internal disk space.

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12), 16 gigs of RAM

Posted on Oct 9, 2016 9:14 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 9, 2016 3:07 PM in response to TokyoTony

You can move a project to a different library by clicking on the project button. In the project window which opens select the project and click on the circle by its name. In the dropdown select the move to library option. iMovie always has copies of the project media in the library where the project is which is why you saw the copies.

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TokyoTony Author

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Oct 11, 2016 9:53 PM in response to TokyoTony

Thanks! I did not see this.

So, theoretically, if I moved all my projects over to the external drive, would I have any clips remaining on that internal, i.e. does it leave any remnants behind or it is smart enough to move all of them? In my example above, when I moved the main event to the external, it made copies of the clips that where still referenced by projects on the internal. If I moved all those projects over to the external, I guess I shouldn't see any clips of those remain on the internal?

Hope I am not getting to confusing.

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