I'm trying to make some room on my iMac hard rive, which is almost full after 4 years of movies,music, pictures, etc.  I bought an external hard drive and thought I moved most of the movies and pics to the ext drive, but they still show as taking up space

I recently got a message saying that my startup disk was almost full.  I tried moving files on to an external drive to make some space, but the files still show as taking up room when I look at my product info storage.  The files appear to have been moved and deleted off of my internal drive.  I copied them from one to the other and then moved the ones on the internal to my trash and then emptied the trash folder.  What else can I do.   When I open iMovie, even though I moved the movies from the iMovie folder, they still load as iMovie thumbnails, which takes forever.  I appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks.

First of all make sure that you've definitely backed up the movies to your external hard disc.
In iMovie click on any event you don't want, go to the file menu and select 'move event to trash'. Then do the same for any unwanted projects - 'move project to trash'. Quit out of iMovie and empty the trash.
Hope that helps!

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