Help! Clip and project files refuses to load into imovie

I did some reorganizing of my movie material placed on an external hdd (I am using a macbookpro 13).
Now imovie refuses to load any of the files again. The project files are greyed out an impossible to import. All the source files are also still there on my external hdd but imovie refuses to load them. What shall I do? Anybody that can help me? Extremely frustrating. Must I move the material or have it in a certain order in the folder system?

I have the same problem as the user who started this thread - moved my imovie projects to an external hard drive using the finder window, did not move them in imovie. Is there any way will be able to view them again in imovie??? I thought maybe they needed to be in the internal hard drive for some reason, so I tried to move them back to "Movies" in my internal HD, but it didn't work either. Please tell me there's a way to recover my projects!

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