Where are the movies in iMovie Theatre stored

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Where are the movies in iMovie Theatre stored

All my iMovie videos I made were happily visible on both my iMacs and then the other day, the thumbnails were all black and iMovie theatre said the files were missing. However, I could see them on my iPhone and iPad and could watch them. Most were in the cloud but I was able to stream them ok.

So to get them back on one of my iMacs I clicked on iCloud and on iCloud Drive, I unticked "Optimize storage".

Then on my iMac the movies started downloading and populating my iMovie theatre again.

I have two questions

1) where are the videos in iMovie theatre stored in the cloud and how do you find them.

2) When the videos got downloaded to my iMac and into Theatre again, where are the files located on my iMac's hard drive. I have no iMovie library file and in my Movies folder I have only one file with the icon of two theatre tickets showing up as iMovie Theatre but it is only 8kb in size.

I want to find these video files I have made to keep them safe and backed up.

Thanks

iMovie '11, macOS Sierra (10.12.5)

Posted on Jul 23, 2017 4:08 AM

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Rich839

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Jul 23, 2017 6:47 AM in response to Drkrud99

Control-click on the Theater folder, then click on Show Package Contents and then the Media folder inside. Your Theater movies should be contained in the media folder and you can click on them and view them. If they are not in there it is possible that you have signed out of iCloud, and that would make your Theater movies disappear from Theater, but they will reappear if you sign back into iCloud.

I don't store in the Cloud so can't help you with your cloud storage question.

-- Rich

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