First event, then project missing

I have search the web to find answers for this question, and it seems may people have similar problems, but I cannot find an answers. Hope somebody here can help.
After opening iMovie, I noticed one of my events was empty. The file was stil present in the iMovie event folder, but did not show in the event. I found a solution where I had to change something in the source code, I think the plist file. I saw there that it reffered to a .mov file, however the source was a .dv file. After changing it (with txteditor) and opening again now the project using the event (which was showing triangels befor) was now gone. Stil present in the folder, but not in iMovie itself.
I opened the package of the project and change the 'project' file in txteditor also, because this also reffered to the .mov file, not a .dv file. But I have not been able to repair either the event or the project.
Can somebody help?

Update: moving my event to an external harddrive (using iMovie) has solved the problem with the event. The event even shows (by underlining) which clips I used in the project. However the project still does not show, is missing.

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