Growing Library: Moving to a ministack to be editable.

Hi:
I have a question about moving an imovie library so it will be editable onto an external HD. Should I just move it over in the finder and then open imovie and specify a folder in prefs?
Any help would be great!
Thanks.

Tyler Parker wrote:
.. Should I just move it over in the finder and ...
this will kill your projects ..
Any help would be great!
in iM, click on Help in the menu and paste the following keywords:
*Copying or moving video from your Event Library to an external hard disk*

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