Backing Up Completed Projects

I am using CS6 Premier Pro.
After finishing a project I copied the folder with all my files to an external hard drive. I deleted the original project folder on the internal hard drive. Then I verified the project would open on the external hard drive. Everything worked fine except it needed to render the transitions etc.
I'm curious why it needed to render the transitions etc again? My preferences in Premier are set to "Save Media Cache files next to originals when possible". I verified that the "Adobe Premiere Pro Preview Files" folder was indeed on the external hard drive in the project folder along with all the "Project Name.PRV" folder and all the rendered files for the project.
I'm probably missing how and where Premier keeps its rendered files for preview.
Any idea why Premier needed to render the preview files again after moving the project?

There has been a lot said about the"best practice" for backups.
In reality there is no right or wrong, but having all your backup eggs/Libraries in one basket can be risky.
I use your later suggested method as it suits my style of work.
I prefer to have each Project, Event/s in there own Library. Self contained unit.
When the Project is done the complete Library is copied to another drive, plus if it's important another drive is used for a second backup.
What you have to work through is what gear you have or need to aquire to make your backup method secure and easy to do.
Nowadays you need lots of drive space and thankfully Terabytes are cheaper than ever.
Al

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I would like to uninstall IMovie '11 so I can complete a project I spent hours (and hours) creating in IMovie '09.
I am frustrated that IMovie '11 has deleted the project I had previously in IMovie '09, after I upgraded to IMovie '11.
Immediately after I upgraded to IMovie '11 recently, I DID see my previous '09 projects still reflected, although I also noticed my IMovie '11 removed weird, random features (titles, mostly) during the transition. And it was very random - i.e., some of my titles were reflected; some HALVES of my titles weren't, etc. Just random.
Noticing this and not wanting to miss anything I did with my completed project (which was already good to go, before the upgrade), I then tried uploading the last fully complete version of my project, as edited in IMovie '09. I went into my Time Capsule and just went back by a few hours and restored those project files. However, IMovie '11 not only did not recognize any of my '09 projects, it actually DELETED all of the projects it originally showed me when I upgraded. So now I was totally out of my project files!
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Is this really what I have to do in order to retrieve a project I already spent hours completing in '09? Or is there some shorter way to retrieve those files that IMovie '11 has dismissed and deleted?
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Thanks for your reply, Klaus1. I'm currently running Snow Leopard. I'd considered upgrading to Lion but was told, even by Apple, that I wouldn't be satisfied with its slow performance on my iMac 24.
I have plenty of hard drive space with 160 GB available on my internal hard drive, but I've been storing the archived video clips and the iMovie projects on a fire-wired, external 2 TB drive. Could it be that using an external hard drive for the iMovie project is part of the performance problem?
A quick check on the Apple website shows that my iMac 24, which was manufactured in mid-2007, can support up to 4 GB of RAM. I wonder if I should consider a RAM upgrade before upgrading the entire computer. How big a deal is it to replace RAM in the iMacs?
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I completed a 25 min training video six weeks ago with several hundred clips. Audio is mostly voiceover broken into 100+ tracks, with a few background music tracks, some camera audio, and about 20 total sound effects. The project is complicated for imovie, but saved and exported to idvd without problems. Now when I open it, ALL of the audio is terribly distorted in playback. Sounds like a radio broadcast not quite tuned in. Opened the version on my back up hard drive with same result. Tried to delete an audio track and re-record and even the new voiceover or music track is distorted. No other archived projects have this problem. I have completed another larger project since last modifying the problem project. The new project is fine. My hard drive has 27GB available and I am not running anything else when attempting playback. I also did a software update just in case but nothing in the update for imovie.

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The goal of iMovie is to create a movie that can be exported to iDVD and subsequently burned to a DVD. If you achieved a good DVD then maybe it isn't important that iMovie distorts the playback.
As a test, you might just delete out 75% or more of the audio clips in your iMovie project, and see if the remaining ones play well in the project. Just don't save the modified project when you close it and everything will revert to the original. Keep your back up project intact, of course, in case something goes wrong.
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