Having difficulties deleting rejected clips.

If I press 'Move Rejected to Trash', half the time nothing will happen at all.
If I'm lucky (whatever type of luck you'd consider this), it will go through what looks like the process in which the clips get moved to the Trash bin (you know, it says they upload into the Trash bin, when they don't).
How can I fix this?
Also, is there a way to move individual clips into the Trash bin?

I just posted pretty much the same thing elsewhere on the Apple Boards and got no replies. Rather than start a new thread, I decided to just tack on and paste what I posted on the other forum. This appears to be a fairly common problem. Yet, no one seems to have an answer, and Apple either isn't aware of it or just hasn't fixed it (I can't believe it's the latter).
Anyway, here's what I posted:
To be brief -- I am unable to move rejected clips to the trash with iMovie 08. I am 99% sure I'm doing everything correctly. The option to do so is dimmed, and clicking on the Move Rejected To Trash button does nothing.
I saw several posts about this problem from a couple of years ago, but no one offered a solution. I haven't seen this issue discussed since 2008, which I don't understand. The problem was never solved in any of the threads I read. It appears to be a bug in the software. Does anyone know if there's a work-around for this? Has this problem been fixed with iMovie 09?
I just find it hard to believe that a bug of this magnitude would go uncorrected by Apple. I could save a lot of disk space if this would work as it's supposed to.
Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions.

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When i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

when i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

See this iMovie Help topic on how to delete rejected clips:
Delete unwanted video clips from an Event -
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6a93f
John

Unable to delete rejected clips

When I click on "Move Rejected to Trash" it says "Unable to delete rejected clips." The clips are not from any event, as they are clips from iPhoto Videos. I've searched around the Discussions but couldn't find an answer. Anyone have any insight?
Thanks!

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

"Unabe to delete rejected clips"?

...tried "moving rejected clips to trash...
...got Error message...
"Unabe to delete rejected clips:
The operation could not be completed.Error writing file: /Users/donrex/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Family 56/iMovie Thumbnails/clip-135-02-05 05;27;15-1"
I now have 2 Event Libraries with problems.
On one, the Project Library shows a triangle symbol with a exclamation sign, and, won't show clips in the Preview screen. On another, much of the Event now has grayed clips.
I also experienced the unplanned deletion of some clips, and, some clips being combined with another clip.
Any help?
Don

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

Error message when trying to delete rejected clips

When I try to delete the rejected clips in some projects (from the event panel) I get the following error message:
"The operation could not be completed. Error writing file: /Users/lee/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/imovie-001/04dx 01-1.mov"
This only occurs with certain imported movie clips. Other imported clips work as expected when I move the rejected portions to the trash.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

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always check my open explorer windows now when I get messages like that and
it usually clears it up. Hope it works foryou.
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Deleting Rejected Clip Deletes Entire Library

Hello,
I rejected parts of clips in FCP X and changed the view to "show Rejected" and selected then and hit command+d to move them to the trash. The only problem is that when I switched the view to "show all" everything was gone. I tested it again by selecting just a small clip from the event and pressing command+d. It deleted the entire event again. Do you know what is going wrong?
Also, the first time I opened FCP X, my Western Digital Passport external hard drive showed up in the Event Library and I was able to save an event there. The next time I opened FCP X up, the hard drive was gone from the list and my whole project was red and disconnected. I opened iMovie and the events I had on my Passport showed up and were working fine. Is there just a setting I need to change? I have the hd formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Thanks for the help!
Dan

which brings me to propose a (very annoying, yet usable) workaround ...
- from iTunes you want to rename an album (that would cause the old folder to be removed, and accidentally cause more unwanted deletions)
- go into Finder, and in the folder to be renamed, add a dummy file (like, duplicating one of the songs);
- go into iTunes, and perform the renaming operation
- the dummy file is not visible in iTunes, hence it will not be deleted;
- because of the additional dummy file, the directory will not be empty, and therefore will not be deleted;
- go again into Finder, and manually delete the now useless folder with dummy file as the only remaining file;

IMovie 08 - Deleting rejected clips in Event

I've rejected some movie clips in iMovie 08 (red bar shown), but when I click the button to move these to the trash, no action occurs. Any suggestions? -Don

i get spinning wheel that does not stop....not even after hours. I manually shut down, and it deletes the entire project. I cant find a good solution anywhere to this.

Move rejected clips to trash?

I have really large clip sizes, from 1-10 minutes long, that are taking up massive amounts of space on my hd, but I only need 10-20 seconds of each clip. The vast majority of my material ends up getting Rejected.
I have read that there is an option to Move Rejected Files to Trash, which will delete the unwanted material but preserve the other stuff. I cannot seem to find this option: it does not appear in the Browser when viewing rejected files. I read that I can go to File>Move Rejected Clips to Trash, however this option does not appear in my File menu.
What am I doing wrong? Is this ability no longer enabled? I am on a MacBook Pro using the 2013 iMovie that shipped with my laptop. Thanks for any help.

Hey crazyshannon,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like youwant to delete rejected clips. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
iMovie '11: Delete unwanted video clips from an Event
To delete video clips permanently from your Event Library:
In the Event Library, click to select the Event you want to delete video from.
In the Event browser, select the frames or clips you want to remove from the Event, and then press Delete or click the Reject button (shown below) in the iMovie toolbar.
(The Reject button also has a small “x” if you have Advanced Tools turned on.)
If you’ve chosen All Clips from the Show pop-up menu (shown below), which appears below the Event browser, a red line appears across the top of the rejected frames.
If you’ve chosen Favorites Only or “Favorites and Unmarked,” the rejected clips disappear from view.
Choose File > “Move Rejected Clips to Trash.”
All the clips that are currently marked as “rejected” in any Event or project are queued to move to the Trash. This includes clips you may have marked previously, not only those you just rejected.
In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:
If you’re confident you know which clips you’ve previously rejected and you want to delete all of them, click “Move to Trash.”
The video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
If you want to review the clips that you’ve marked for deletion, click View Rejected Clips.
The Event browser shows just the rejected clips in the selected Event. Select any clips that you don’t want to delete, and then click the Unmark button.
To delete the rejected clips, click the “Move Rejected to Trash” button (A, below) in the upper-right corner of the Rejected Clips window.
Click the “Move to Trash” button in the dialog that appears; the video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Can't delete events, or rejected clips, and now hangs on startup

I am using, as far as I know, the latest version 7.1.1. I first started having problems when I couldn't delete a couple of events. I them selected some clips to be rejected, and it marked them appropriately with the red bar. However, it will not allow me to delete these rejected clips. Now the problems are getting worse and I cannot even get '08 to start with hanging up and then I must force it to quit.
I should mention that I between having all these issues I have installed iMovie HD and been using that but for ENTIRELY different clips etc. I have not been sharing things back and forth. HD seems to be working as it should.
I am new to Mac', about 3 months now, and have been using iMovie'08 for a few weeks and found it to be very good. I started to have some problems and found the whole debate about iMovie '08 compared to iMovie HD. All that aside, although I can see how HD has better features than '08, can someone point me in the right direction to get things up and running again.
Thanks very much.

Sorry, I should have added this error message that I get when trying to move the rejected clips to the trash:
The operation could not be completed. * -[NSPlaceholderMutableDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:]: number of objects (0) not equal to number of keys (4)
Perhaps this will help someone with nailing down what the issue is.
Thanks again.

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

You can delete a complete clip which is not in use in any project by right-clicking it and choosing "move to trash". It won't actually appear in the trash can but will be permanently deleted when you quit iMovie.
Geoff.

Trouble deleting only rejected clips after imovie update

When i send rejected clips to the trash, it pulls more of the original video with it. How can i keep this from happening? Only started with the new Mavericks update.

I've seen one suggestion relating to Revealing the Clip in the Finder. Try this:
Go to the Reject Clips by clicking on the pulldown menu at the bottom where it says Show: (choose Rejected Clips Only). Then <CTRL> click on on of the red striped thumbnails choose Reveal in Finder. When the Finder window launches, your clip will be highlighted. Select it and drag it to the trash.
Quit iMovie, then relaunch it and go back to the Show: (Rejected Clips Only) see if that clip is now missing from the list of Rejected Clips. If this works and your Project file still plays back successfully I would say it's safe to continue deleting as needed. But if you have some problems and the Project has been affected there might be another reason you cannot delete the clips.
iPhoto Videos are not deletable in the traditional iMovie Rejected Clips kind of way. They are under full control and jurisdiciton of iPhoto. And as a result, iMovie is not allowed to do anything other than 'copy' or re-use them in a Project. Deletion of iPhoto Videos in iMovie will not work. So your only real option is to try deleting them from iPhoto instead. So just be aware of where your video clips are located in the iMovie Event Library and everything should be OK.

IMovie 10 - how to delete rejected portions of a clip

I have read all the discussions and connot figure this out. I can view rejected clips, but have no way to delete them or put them in Trash. If I select Move to Trash it trashes the whole clip. Thanks for any help.

Hi
I wanted to delete the "rejected" portions of a clip. I made iMovie show only teh rejected clips and deleted them all. I realized now that iMovie deleted the whole clip that included portions that were marked as favorites, unmarked, not just the rejected. Luckily I do have the original files elsewhere but I threw away a couple of hours of work.
If i have a long clip and I want to get rid of "bad" / "useless" sections of what is marked rejected there should be an easy way in iMovie. Is tehre?
if I split a clip does the original file gets split or not? Is tehre a quick way to do that without a too much cumbersome workaround?
thanks
stefano

How to move rejected clips ONLY to trash in the new iMovie?

In the old iMovie, there was a 'Move rejected clips' function that I cannot find in the new iMovie. When I select it to where it only shows rejected clips before selecting 'Move to trash', ALL the clips, including the ones marked as 'favorites' end up being deleted. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thank you!

If you click the Adjust button and then choose the Cropping tool you can adjust the framing to create a pillar box. That way rather than having your shot blown up to fit the 16:9 frame is will be shown at it's actual size with black bars on the left and right.
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Is there any way to retrieve accidentally deleted source clips?

I accidentally deleted source clips for a video project, and now the viewer won't show my video (although I can still see the frames when I run my cursor over the project). Is there any way to retrieve the files or show iMovie where to find the source clips on my computer, kind of like how it's possible to show iTunes where to find source mp3s on my computer when they're moved from the iTunes file? Since I can still see the frames when I move my cursor over the clips (with the exclamation points in the corners), it seems as though the memory of the edited clips must still be in iMovie somehow and be recoverable. Any help would be appreciated - I'd really like to avoid having to re-import and re-edit all of those clips!

Basics of File Recovery
Files in Trash
If you simply put files in the Trash you can restore them by opening the Trash (left-click on the Trash icon) and drag the files from the Trash to your Desktop or other desired location. OS X also provides a short-cut to undo the last item moved to the Trash -press COMMAND-Z.
If you empty the Trash the files are gone. If a program does an immediate delete rather than moving files to the Trash, then the files are gone. Recovery is possible but you must not allow any additional writes to the hard drive - shut it down. When files are deleted only the directory entries, not the files themselves, is modified. The space occupied by the files has been returned to the system as available for storage, but the files are still on the drive. Writing to the drive will then eventually overwrite the space once occupied by the deleted files in which case the files are lost permanently. Also if you save a file over an existing file of the same name, then the old file is overwritten and cannot be recovered.
General File Recovery
If you stop using the drive it's possible to recover deleted files that have not been overwritten by using recovery software such as Data Rescue II, File Salvage or TechTool Pro. Each of the preceding come on bootable CDs to enable usage without risk of writing more data to the hard drive. Two free alternatives are Disk Drill and TestDisk. Look for them and demos at MacUpdate or CNET Downloads.
The longer the hard drive remains in use and data are written to it, the greater the risk your deleted files will be overwritten.
Also visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on Data Recovery.

How do I delete a clip without every other clip in my timeline moving over?

So i've been editing for hours, and somehow, the first 30 seconds of my movie were screwed up. So now i'm trying to re-edit the first 30 seconds. When i try to delete a clip, the rest of the clips following the deleted one, move over to this empty space. I do not want this to happen!!!!! I want the other clips to stay in the same place!!!! How do I delete a clip without having all the clips after it move over to the deleted space????
Please help.
Thank you.

Hello, richardzulu!
Welcome to the discussions.
In answer to your question, the clips behind the one you delete must move over to close the gap between the clips, an empty space left by the clip that you deleted. Otherwise, you would have a black/blank part in your movie.
You CAN purposely create a black clip if you wish, but probably you just want the movie to continue as you have created it, leaving out the deleted clip. If your movie is just video, it should work out to be the same once the deleted clip is gone.
However, if you have added some other audio, and not locked it to its corresponding video clip, the timing of the audio to the video will be off. Use the "Advanced" tool to select 'Lock audio clip at playhead' to avoid this. Once the audio is locked to a specific video clip, edits to other clips can be done without separating the audio and video. Occasionally, they still do get misaligned, so you do have to keep checking.
If you really want to keep all the other clips the same without doing anything else, switch to Timeline view, and move the trailing movie over from the clip you want to delete, making sure that the length you move is the same as the clip to be deleted. Then, delete the clip. iMovie will create a black clip in that space and the rest of your clips will remain untouched. However, as I said, the movie will be interupted by this black clip.

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