Another '911 Entire Movie Project Trashed'

My daughter had a major video project that just vanished tonight. When she goes to open the project the message ""A Project File is Missing
The file “_” couldn’t be opened and is being skipped. Click “Ignore All” to skip any remaining missing file messages."
I read the other thread on here and tried the following:
"I think you can retrieve your movie...or at least most of it; from your last save. Follow these steps:
Close your iMovie project.
Controld-click on its icon and select 'Show Package Contents'
Look for an icon with your movie's name.
See if there is another one with the name and a ~ after it. That is the prior, next-to-last saved version of your iMovie.
Double click on it, and you should see it open in iMovie. Check to see that it is what you want.
Do a 'Save Project As' (and rename it) so it will become its own iMovie, not remain part of the project file of the other one. Specify where you want this new iMovie to be stored. iMovie will copy this file to the new iMovie."
I found the the other file with the name and ~ after it. When I double click on it, I get the same message that I got originally. Does this mean the entire project is corrupted? Any other suggestions?

If all else fails: In the Package Contents folder there should be a Cache folder inside of which there is a file called Timeline Movie.mov. Click on that and see if it will open with your entire movie project intact. If it opens successfully, control click on the Timeline Movie icon and make a duplicate. Drag the duplicate onto your desk top, and from there you can drag it into a new iMovie project. It will be just one long clip, but at least you have your movie. You can split the clip into multiple clips for editing purposes.
Parenthetically, I would make sure you have enough free disk space on your start up disk for iMovie to operate properly. 20-25 GB is frequently recommended on this forum. Also, you might consider deleting preferences and doing a permissions repair. Post back if you don't know how to do that.

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