Hi, I have not used iMovie for a while. In the mean time, I have switched macs and upgraded MacOSX. My iMovie files and folders are on an external thunderbolt drive. When I started iMovie today, it could not find any of my old files. I went into iMovie Preferences, but I did not see a way to point to a different location for my iMovie Library or iMovie Projects or iMovie Events. In fact, the Preferences panel seemed pretty useless.
I found some instructions online for using an iMovie Library on an external disk. Basically, I deleted the iMovie Library that is automatically created in my home directory on the internal disk and then I double clicked on the iMovie Library located on the external disk. This allowed iMovie (version 10.1.1) to see the events in my iMovie Events folder (on the external disk). The events are now listed in the bar along the left side of the main window and all looks fine. How do I access my iMovie Projects folder on the external disk? I found stuff online about how to move the iMovie Projects folder from an internal disk to an external disk, but I did not find anything about how to point iMovie to a Projects folder on an external disk when there is no Projects folder on the internal disk. When I click on Projects from within iMovie, I see place holders for my 11 projects. The names are correct, but there is a generic icon for each, with a question mark and the phrase "Missing File". When I right click and choose play, the between-clip transitions that I added are still there, but the main clips (imported from a camcorder) have question marks and it says something like "clip missing -- try importing again from original source material". I doubt that I even have most of the original clips. I do have all of the material in an iMovie Projects directory on my external drive. Can someone tell me how to point iMovie to this new location? Or, in other words, how can I access my iMovie Projects that are located on an external disk, which were probably not properly moved to that external disk? Thanks, Gregg _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
