All media files lost from folder while editing! Entire movie now gone HELP!
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I was undoing a transition deletion at the time and may have hit command-x instead of command-z or some other crazy key combo. I have no idea how this happened of what happened for that matter. I need these files! Can they be recovered somehow? My available disc space has changed to about 5GB more. I quit out of iMovie hoping to not save these changes to no avail.
Is there a utility that can recover lost files? I'm not too knowledgable in this department. YIKES! Has this happened before to anyone?
I'm afraid the news isn't good, truegrit.
Older versions of iMovie had a bug that could delete all the clips in the Media folder, causing the loss of everything. That may have happened to your project.
If it helps, it's probably not something you did. That version of iMovie did it on its own. It can follow emptying the iMovie trash.
Emptying the iMovie trash could cause lots of different problems; that was the worst of several. Fortunately, iMovie 5 and iMovie 6 do not have this bug.
Karl
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