How do you get iMovie '08 to load properly after installation and updates?

I loaded iMovie '08 and updated and at first it was smooth. Then, I tried to follow instructions on how to send a (copy or duplicate) of a project to my external hardrive. When I tried to pull the "original" up on my iMac; it would only pull up temporarily. Once it started loading the "thumbnails"--then it would simply say that iMovie had encountered a problem ad ask me to either; REPORT, RETRY or CLOSE (the project). For the few moments it was loading up--I could see my video footage--but then it would flash to the "REPORT", RETRY or CLOSE" screen. HELP!

maillarry wrote:
.. I'm not sure what you are referring to in terms of the "Finder" level operation?
if you want to delete events or projects, you have to do that in the app iM08 itself; if you erase any files in 'Finder' (when no app is running, MacOs shows you the 'Finder', read the manual.....) for sure iM will complain and show a weird behavior..
... Now, EVERY TIME I "trash" the iMOVIE'08--and "re-install it--and follow with the "update"--it does the same thing.
re-installing an app is a habitual behavior on inferior systems ... as we like to say here ..
for sure, a reinstall of the app doesn't fix your Events and Projects Folders.. if you mis-manage any content by doing so on Finder level, the app will keep 'complaining'..
sorry, no fix from here (=I'm afraid, you totally misconfigured the file management 'manually'), if you try to be smarter than the guys at Cupertino, you HAVE to be smarter than them..

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