Clips don't belong in project

I am putting together a video for the seniors in my school. It is made up of video clips and still images. Every time I open the video to work on it, I get a message that says I have 60 clips that do not belong in this project. It even gives me a list of their titles. They are all photos that are most definitely in the video right now. It always asks if I want to trash the 60 clips. I have been hesitant to do that. I am concerned that suddenly all 60 photos might disappear from the senior video. Can someone shed some light on why this is happening?
Thanks!
Robert

Robert, does the project reside on an external hard drive? If so, check to be sure the drive is formatted Mac OS Extended. If it's not that format, iMovie cannot properly save changes to the disk. That can cause the symptoms you describe.
The problem could also be caused by corruption that sometimes occurs after emptying the iMovie trash. One form of this corruption is that iMovie "forgets" clips on the Timeline. As a result, iMovie doesn't recognize those files in the Media folder. When you open the project, iMovie asks about them.
Whatever is going on probably isn't good. And depending on what that is, you could lose some stuff. Each time we save in iMovie, it automatically discards files the project no longer needs. It may decide to discard these files on its own.
So before doing anything, make a backup of the entire project folder so if problems worsen, you don't lose stuff. Use the Finder's Duplicate command to duplicate the entire project folder.
The files that it is asking about may be the still image files you imported to the project. It may not hurt anything to lose those, but you won't be able to re-edit them. Not a big deal. My guess is you've already lost the ability to re-edit them or iMovie wouldn't be asking. You might try discarding them to see what happens, and revert to the backup if bad things happen. My guess is the roof won't fall in and you'll be able to finish the project.
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