Catalog of events on external drive

So I moved a series of events and I believe projects to an external drive as I was doing a totally clean install on my iMac. However, after I did the install the external hard drive crashed and is unrecoverable from a data service. This WAS the backup and the iMac had the working copy. So now I have nothing and am trying to figure out if there is a catalog or library file that iMovie stores somewhere that has a list of the files/events/projects that would have been on that external drive. Anybody know?

Posted on Dec 24, 2016 3:48 PM

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Dec 24, 2016 8:25 PM in response to Lake Nogebow

iMovie saves all original media and project data in the iMovie library package which was in your user library folder. Since you did a clean install I assume you erased and reformatted your internal drive. That being the case that library is lost. Did you have a time machine backup? If so you can restore the iMovie library and recover your files. If not I'm afraid all is lost.

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Catalog of events on external drive

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