Accidentally Deleted iMovie DropBox

Hello Everyone!
Basic Report:
Here's what I believe happened: Yesterday, I was busy cleaning out screen recordings and other old videos from iMovie, as they were taking up 450GB on my computer and.. Well yes it was in need of a cleaning. After deleting over half of it, I stopped. Today, while I was trying to share a screen recording from Quicktime Player X, it stated "Cannot Locate Your iMovie DropBox." In the process of deleting all those files/movies, I believe I accidentally deleted my iMovie dropbox, making it impossible to share videos to iMovie.
Question: How can I recover my iMovie DropBox?
Note: I'm not clueless about computers, but I'm not the brightest with them either. A basic explanation is much appreciated [:
Thank you!!

Q: Where and what types of backups do you have?
Are you really using a 65lb Mac Pro or something else?
Normally you move everything to archive or backup, you clone your drive first before making changes, just look on MacUpdate.com for Carbon Copy Cloner.
Buy and have at least two backups. CCC and TimeMachine.
MOVE your files to another drive. Prefer to see drives at 50% and maybe max of 70% full.
You have four internal drive bays. Use 'em. A 2TB WD Black is under US$150. A green 3TB more like $109.
Then leave your drive 'as is.'' and move the system (with CCC) to a small fast 240GB SSD.
All your data on say 2 x 2TB or even just one 4TB drive would be ample. So you don't have to worry about a mere 1TB or so of storage.
And then add external drives using USB3 or eSATA PCIe controllers for your Mac Pro like CalDigit or Sonnet. That way you can have backups off line, and expand your storage beyond just 4 internal drives.
Never delete files until you know they are backed up and safe first.
Now we get to DATA RESCUE 3 demo ($99 for program) and a new spare drive to recover file to. The program is easy to use and self-explanatory but read the guide that comes with it (pdf)

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