Imovie crashing when copying Projects and Events to external

This is driving me crazy. Imovie keeps crashing when I try and copy some of my projects and events to the external from within iMovie. I can copy the project and event files separately as a work-around, but it's taking me forever. These are very short movies, less than 3 minutes, and the original footage is from a Kodak zi6. I've already copied more than 40, and all went well. Now it keeps crashing.
Why can't I just copy from the Finder. It would be a LOT faster. I'd like to keep the projects/ events linked so that I can edit in the future, if necessary.
External: Firewire, Guid Partition Table, and Mac OS extended (journaled). Lots of free room on both drives.

I found the solution and just want to share with you...
1. I closed iMovie
2. I renamed my existing root folder projects and events by adding a '_' at the beginning of the folder name.
3. I copied all my content (projects and events) within the finder and not as normally recommended within iMovie from the internal to the new external hard drive.
4. When starting iMovie again the newly copied folder are recognized and it takes a while (depending of the amount of clips and projects) until iMovie is available after this start.
5. The events and projects are now shown in the new external harddrive and all files are accesible. Also all clips from the events are correctly linked in the projects.
I have tried this way since the normal decribed routine did not work on my iMac (iMovie crashed every time).

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Process:         iMovie [1772]
Path:            /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/MacOS/iMovie
Identifier:      com.apple.iMovieApp
Version:         10.0.1 (239055)
Build Info:      iMovieX-23905005031000000~1
App Item ID:     408981434
App External ID: 141822634
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [274]
Responsible:     iMovie [1772]
User ID:         501
Date/Time:       2013-11-20 23:18:26.710 -0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9 (13A603)
Report Version: 11
Anonymous UUID: 86B3DBF6-7B78-20C6-BFEF-087178DA0796
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Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
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0   com.apple.Flexo                         0x000000010be6dc3e DVFormatReaderCreateFromStream + 1134
1   com.apple.Flexo                         0x000000010be6a85
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Imovie Crashes when copying project/event to external

If I try and copy the project/ and event from within Imovie, Imovie crashes. If I copy them separately to external, it works. I'd like to do it together, as this way is too slow! This only happens on some projects, other copy without a hitch.
I will post the crash log next, if that will help.
External is Mac OS extended (journaled), and is Apple Partition map, although same problem when formatted as GUID.

I am clicking on the project I want to copy, and then dragging it to the ext. icon.
A window appears, and asks if I want to copy the project, or the project and the event. I choose the latter.
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Here is my problem: i was running out of disk space and wanted to move my projects and events to a new, external WD hard drive. I followed to normal procedure and moved the projects within iMovie 11 to the new (meanwhile connected and displayed) WD drive. I selected to copy both, projects and events to this drive and iMovie started copying. After a while the prog crashed. Does anyone have an idea what else I can do? Is this a bug of iMovie?

I found the solution and just want to share with you...
1. I closed iMovie
2. I renamed my existing root folder projects and events by adding a '_' at the beginning of the folder name.
3. I copied all my content (projects and events) within the finder and not as normally recommended within iMovie from the internal to the new external hard drive.
4. When starting iMovie again the newly copied folder are recognized and it takes a while (depending of the amount of clips and projects) until iMovie is available after this start.
5. The events and projects are now shown in the new external harddrive and all files are accesible. Also all clips from the events are correctly linked in the projects.
I have tried this way since the normal decribed routine did not work on my iMac (iMovie crashed every time).

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I do not have exactly the same issue, but iMovie 10 seems buggy as all get out and the alledged bugs cause the system to hang something fierce. There are a number of ways to trigger a crash, apparently, but it always proceeds the same way.
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I run iMovie v9.0.9 with many projects and events on several external (multi-TB) hard drives. They would not fit on my primary HD due to sheer file size.
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I have a 500 GB hard drive that had 100 GB free space before "10.9 Mavericks." Now the disk is full. The iMovie Library on my internal HD is 106.1 GB, and "iMovie Theater.theater" (sic) that is 90.3 GB. The computer is now slower than slow. Also, events that were organized under the names of the Hard Drive that contained them, are now simply called iMovie Library 1, iMovie Library 2, iMovie Library 3, iMovie Library 4, iMovie Library 5, etc.
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I copied the events from the internal iMovie library to an external library now called "iMovie Library July2013-3TB" and then moved the events to trash. But the events did not appear in trash, and cannot be emptied. So, the HD is still full.
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I've made sure my iMovie events and iMovie projects files are on the top level of my external hard drive, however iMovie says, "iMovie could not find any events or project files to update" please help.
I only recently updated my computer to OSX 10.10.1 ; before that, I was using OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. Not sure if that has any effect on this topic.
Here are my specs:
Type: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
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Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Startup Disk: Macintosh HD
Pretty sure graphics and serial dont matter so I wont put it in.
But yea, I've been trying to figure out what's going on for a few days and have had no result.
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I hope somebody be able to help me asap.
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Then, in order to free up space on my Hard Drive, I moved some of the events to a USB external drive because I figured I was finished with them as far as making my movie was concerned.
My movie got "muted" by YouTube (copyright issue), so I need to go back and edit the project to remove a soundtrack, but the project has lots of yellow warning markers on various clips.
I went to Genius Bar, and he explained that all iMovie events and all iMovie projects must reside in the same place. Makes sense ..... so I bought a new Seagate 7200 rpm Firewire External Drive (which will be faster than my USB drive) and plan to move all events and projects to the Seagate hard drive.
But - if everything is on an external drive, how do I play a movie on my Mac when I want to show somebody? Do I copy the project back to iMovie? But will it play normally if all the accompanying events are stored elsewhere?
The firewire 7200 rpm drives do not come in a portable drive, so I bought a desktop size drive - not very portable ..... so I can't be schlepping that drive every time I want to show a movie! I don't want to open the package if this is not the best solution.
I'm starting to take a lot of video - so it's eating up my hard drive .....
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you want to hold the command key and drag the project file to hard drive. The hard drive can be even one of the portable my passport. I have several. It just needs to be formatted Macos extended. Once you drag the project it will ask if you want to take the events with you....say yes. Viola ... all movies projects and events stay together. However, if you just want to show the movie after its edited, share to itunes and create a version that can play in itunes.

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"..Would I be able to import the project part that I export and delete.." ..You would, except that it'd be all "baked" into a single clip when exporting it, so although you could chop it up again once you'd re-imported it, your original edits wouldn't be there to re-edit.
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Short version: I have a project that I have been working on for a few months. Now that it's burned off to DVD, I want to store the whole thing on an External (Seagate) drive, in case I want to come back to it later. (For now, it's just sucking up space on the internal drive).
I have done this before, even a few months ago with another project, but now the commands don't seem to work:
Internal hard drive has the Project Files.
Referenced Event files (some stills, other video clips, etc.) are on the Internal drive, and some on the External (Seagate) drive.
I tried to "Copy to..." the Event folder to an external drive's Library, but I get a quick "Rendering..." and then nothing.
I tried to "Move to..." the Event folder to an external drive's, but I get a quick "Rendering..." and then nothing.
I tried to drag-Move one of the Project folders from the internal Library to the external drive, and it looked like it was moving, but after a while, I did NOT see the Project either in the Internal Library OR in the External drive Library!!! I had actually LOST the Project! (I was able to restore the project from a Time Machine backup from a few days ago... but at least one of the Media Clips is now missing!).
I have heard that you cannot (or should not) have more than one Final Cut Pro Library on a single drive, so I also used a 500GB external LaCie USB powered drive to recover the "old" version of the main Library from Time Machine... then copied the restored backup Event into the main Library. THIS WORKED! But I cannot then copy anything OUT from my Main Library!!
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OS 10.9.3
FCP 10.1.1
External drive is a 1TB Seagate USB 3.0 connection
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I did this to transfer my mess of media management on my old Mac Pro to my new Mac Pro.
I highly recommend that you not use the Move command, but only use the Copy command. I accidentally used the Move command and then it was sitting there with the "Render" thing that you mentioned and I thought it was not doing anything, so I cancelled and that didn't do anything, so I forced quit. BIG MISTAKE.
When I fired FCP X back up, my huge feature film project had a couple hundred missing clips, because it was in the process of moving them to the other drive and the links were all hosed.
I had to go through and reconnect it all, which took about a day.
What I did was I drag and dropped the project files into the event that held the media for that project. I then used the Copy to command. This worked even though it sometimes looked like it wasn't doing anything. It would take a very long time. Walk away from the system. You will see the 100% notification in FCP X when it's done. It will just have a spinning wheel there for several minutes when you first start the command.
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Hi there!
I'm working on a Mac Pro with two drives. One drive contains the OSX and the second drive I use to store video media. I'm running FCPX 10.0.4.
The Mac Pro is used in a teaching environment (i.e. creative suite, FCPX, iMovie, etc).
Each tutor has their own user account for their own students (i.e. Fish account for one tutor, Mouse account for another tutor). Each user account is specially setup for the apps that that particular tutor teaches.
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A workaround would be to capture all footage to the OSX bootable drive so that all Events and Projects are stored in the individual user Movies folder, but I'm wary of using one drive to run the OS and High Def video footage for drive speed issues.
Workaround 2:
Another workaround would be to partition the capture drive into separate partitions for each tutor, but then one tutor may fill up their drive quicker than others and then I''d have to repartition the drive to allow for more space! (bearing in mind we have 17 Macs all setup in the same way!)
Workaround 3:
I've also tried making symbolic links from each user Movies folder to a specific location on the capture drive, but no luck.
Does anyone know of a workaround which might work?
With many thanks in advance,
Lawrence

Hi Tom,
Firstly, thank you for your reply.
From your experience, can you setup Event Manager X to automatically hide all events and projects except those edited on a specific user account...for all user accounts...or is this something a new student would have to do manually before starting a new project?
Many thanks in advance,
Lawrence

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