"Files that don't belong" & "Stray file clips"

I'm working on a slideshow project in iMovie 4; no video clips are involved. I'm adding narration, using the Timeline & the Audio Pane. Things went along ok & then two days ago, when I opened my project, I got the message, "There is one file that doesn't belong in the project. Would you like to move it to the trash?" It was a voice file. I clicked "no," but it didn't appear in the voice track & I had to rerecord it. I looked at the Media folder, & the file was there.
Yesterday, I did a lot of recording & today on opening, I got the same message, involving 17 voice files, even though I had quit iM4, saved the changes, & reloaded the program several times for various reasons. When it started up, no messages appeared, so I thought the problem solved.
Today, as two days ago, those recordings do not appear on the Timeline. So, I guess when it happens again, I should click "Move to Trash" and rerecord the missing recordings, since iMovie4 won't recognize them, anyway. Isn't that right?
As to "stray file clips," I opted to put them in the Clips Pane; they are transitions, but I don't know what to do with them, for this reason: I've found some cross-dissolve transitions include a photo in them that is outside the two photos I want them to join, so I think these are problem transitions. What can cause a cross-dissolve to incorporate a nearby photo that is not involved in the transition?
About 2 & 1/2 years ago, this forum had this topic, & the message was, never empty the Trash until the project is finished. I'd read in a book not to empty trash, but it didn't emphasize "until the project is finished." I've emptied Trash lots of times & I think this caused my problems. iMovie 4 is befuddled.
I've read the danslagle Website on this, but it doesn't seem to help. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Because, these issues are going to be constant & maybe things will get worse.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do?
1. As you said, stop emptying the iMovie Trash.
2. Is the project saved on an external drive? Make sure the disk uses the Mac OS Extended disk format. If it doesn't use that format, iMovie can have trouble saving the project to the disk. If the project file isn't properly saved to disk, iMovie can't "remember" where the clips go, so it puts them in the Trash.
From time to time we've seen reports of LaCie drives formatted with Mac OS Extended from the factory needing to be re-formatted to work correctly. I don't know if it's happening here, but keep it in mind.
If more problems develop after you stop emptying the Trash, you might want to consider erasing the drive. That will erased the files on the drive, so make backups.
Karl

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