Cannot export iMovie project - Help please

When I try to share the project I've worked on for over a week, I get the following ...
However, that event is in the iMovie library.
The only thing that happened differently this time is that I mistakenly deleted the event files from the event library before I exported the project to save disk space. But once I found out I needed the event clips in iMovie in order to share the project, I found out the clips are still in User > Movies > iMovie Events > British Isles Cruise 2013, so I imported them back into my Event Library in iMovie. So the Event and all the clips are back in iMovie, but I'm still getting the above error, as if iMovie doesn't realize the event is still there, and I cannot share or do anything with my project other than view it in iMovie.
Any help on this would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

you haven't renamed any files/folders?
just dragged them out of the Events folder, and back, right?
try this …
quit iMovie
goto Library/Preferences and trash com.apple.iMovieApp.plist
launch iMovie again ....
How do I trash the iMovie Preferences File? and Why?

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