• Open Imovie Library In Finder
• Open Imovie Library In Final Cut Pro
• Open Imovie Library In Final Cut

While you press and hold the Option key, click the iMovie app in the Dock or double-click the iMovie app in the Applications folder. In the Open Library window, click New to create a new library. Name the test library 'Test iMovie Library,' then save it to the Movies folder in your home folder. Exit iPhoto if open. Open your Pictures folder and select the iPhoto Library. 3a.For a new location: Drag the iPhoto Library folder or package to its new location. 3b.For a new computer: Connect your external hard drive which will display on Finder. Drag the iPhoto Library folder or package to external hard drive. Press and hold the Option key. Open the Photos app from the Dock. A prompt will pop up asking you to choose a specific library that you want to access. From the list, select the iPhoto library. Click Choose Library. Wait for your photos to be loaded and launched in your new Photos app.

Saving a project to a hard disk:

1. First connect the external hard disk to your computer.

2. Create a new library in your external hard drive. Go to File => Open Library => New.

Then, saving the imovie library in your external hard drive.

3. Select your event and go to File => Copy Event to Library => yourlibraryname.imovielibrary

Then, the event will show up in the library you just created. You can delete the default empty event by right click the event and choose “Delete Event”.

4. Go to Project Library

5. Click on the next the project you have created. Choose Copy to Library => yourLibraryName

Now, the project and events are all saved into your external hard drive!

If you want to open your hard, you can simply click on the imovie library in your external hard drive.

or

1. Open iMovie

2. Go to File => Open Library => Other…

3. Choose “Locate”

4. Choose the imovie library in your external hard drive

5. Choose the project want to open

And the project and events are here!

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“Copy Project/ or Move project” means that project in its new location rather than physically copying project’s video and other media (such as photos) onto the other disk. This will NOT allow you to work on your project from another Mac. It creates only a copy of the project file, no clips, images, etc. that are part of your project. This is not usually useful for protecting/backing up your work.

Make sure you select Move Projects and Events!

Please remember that computers at MEWS are frozen, which means that they automatically delete any saved files on the computer!

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My imovie files were taking up too much space on my computer so I moved them to my external drive by clicking the circle witht he three dots and chose 'move to library' while my external drive was plugged in. It looked like all 7 projects got moved but when i opened the library on the external drive only 5 projects were there and one of the projects had a question mark icon. When i opened it, it only had half of the clips in there and the other ones were missing.

So my problem is that when you use the move to library option instead of the copy to library option, the files move to the external drive but the original files get deleted. But two projects didnt even move to the external and still got deleted.

Is there any way that these projects are hidden anywhere so i can recover them or are they permanently gone and i have to redo these projects?

Not sure why there would be a move to library option if it is so unstable and such a risk to completely lose my projects in the process.

PS all other projects moved fine and work

Open Imovie Library In Finder

Thanks in advance!

Open Imovie Library In Final Cut Pro

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Open Imovie Library In Final Cut

Posted on Aug 5, 2021 8:54 AM