HT1338 iMovie lost all videos

My iMovie suddenly went very, very slow and failed to load. After a restart it loaded but has lost all my videos and projects.
Any ideas as to what has happened ?

Lazy Assailant wrote:
when I connected my ipod, Itunes wiped the videos from my ipod as well, without even asking me!
iTunes does ask you whether you want to sync your iPod with your iTunes library when you initially set things up, and if you okay all of this, then it means you have to be extra cautious to keep things you can't afford to lose in your iTunes library as well as backed up elsewhere.
At this point, you could only rely on a backup if you have one, or on data recovery programs. If you search on versiontracker and macupdate, for example, you can find many such utilities.

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