I am pleased to have helped you both 😀

Cheers,
Ronni

 Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB 


> On 16 Oct 2017, at 1:57 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks from me too Ronnie.
> Because I can too.
> 
>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 1:41 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Ronni, I can now step backwards in time in Time Machine in iMovie.  
>> Severin
>> 
>>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 11:56 am, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Are you using iMovie 10 (2013)version 10.1.7?
>>> My error then, I still have my old iMovie Projects & iMovie Events folders 
>>> in my Movies Folder.
>>> 
>>> iMovie 10 Updated Projects and Events are stored in a new iMovie 
>>> library.imovielibrary
>>> To see inside the iMovie Library you need to control-click or right-click > 
>>> Show Package Contents  
>>> Check your project is there.
>>> Then 
>>>>> Select the project you wish to recover
>>>>> 3. Enter Time Machine (from the Menu bar on your Mac)
>>>>> 4. In Time Machine ‘back in time’ window  choose a snap before you made 
>>>>> the errors
>>>>> 5. Then click the ’Restore’ button 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Roni
>>> 
>>>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 11:11 am, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Further!   In Movies/    I have iMovie Library (inoperable)  and iMovie 
>>>> Theatre but no iMovie Projects folder!  I just can not find it!  
>>>> Severin
>>>> 
>>>>> On 16 Oct 2017, at 10:57 am, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Severin,
>>>>> 
>>>>> My comments below in situ below in  purple text
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 15 Oct 2017, at 6:03 pm, Severin Crisp <sevcr...@westnet.com.au> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> After many years circumstances have forced me to learn iMovie whIch I am 
>>>>>> finding remarkably easy and its is very user friendly.
>>>>>> During this process I have twice had the following disaster whIch caused 
>>>>>> much gnashing of teeth and wild wailing.   I believe it happened from 
>>>>>> pulling 
>>>>>> or pasting a title badly or misplaced and the result was the title going 
>>>>>> missing and every clip in the rather long movie being reduced to 3secs!  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Adjust the duration of a Title
>>>>> In the timeline, do one of the following.
>>>>> 
>>>>> * Move your pointer to either edge of a title bar, and drag to the right 
>>>>> or left to lengthen or shorten the duration of the title.
>>>>> 
>>>>> * Select the title, click the Clip information button in the adjustments 
>>>>> bat, and type a duration in the Duration field. - example Duration:  8.0
>>>>> Note: If the adjustments bar insn’t shown, click the Adjust button in the 
>>>>> Toolbar.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Edit a Title - You can edit a title’s text, font, size, colour, and 
>>>>> alignment. 
>>>>> You can also preview other title styles and change the title to a style 
>>>>> you like better.
>>>>> Note: You can’t change the styles of some animated titles and themed 
>>>>> titles.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. In the Timeline, double-click the Title you want to change.
>>>>> The playhead moves to the point where you clicked, and the Title appears 
>>>>> in the Viewer. 
>>>>> The first editable text field in the title is highlighted for editing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> To Change the Style of a Title 
>>>>> 1. In the timeline, position the playhead on the title you want to change.
>>>>>     The title appears in the viewer.
>>>>> 2. In the Content Library section of the sidebar, select Titles.
>>>>> 3. In the browser, double-click the new title you want to use.
>>>>>      The New Title replaces the old one, retaining the duration of the 
>>>>> original title.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I was lost how to recover other than the brute force bit by bit method!  
>>>>>> I was at a loss how to use my usual method of backtracking on Time 
>>>>>> Machine.  
>>>>> 
>>>>> To Recover a iMovie project from Time Machine backup
>>>>> Plug the external Time Machine backup Hard Drive into you Mac
>>>>> 1. Open Finder > Click the Movies folder and find the iMovie Projects 
>>>>> folder
>>>>> 2. Select the project you wish to recover
>>>>> 3. Enter Time Machine (from the Menu bar on your Mac)
>>>>> 4. In Time Machine ‘back in time’ window  choose a snap before you made 
>>>>> the errors
>>>>> 5. Then click the ’Restore’ button 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Note: The whole process may be time time-consuming, but if it gets your 
>>>>> project back to before the errors were made…
>>>>> 
>>>>>> What should I have done? 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Ronni
>>>>> 
>>>>> 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014)
>>>>> 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz
>>>>> 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
>>>>> 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
>>>>> 
>>>>> macOS High Sierra 10.13
>>>>>> Severin
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