ILife04 and ILife 06 on separate drives.

I have installed ILife 06 on one of my drives but when I
try to install ILife 04 on the other drive I get a message that ILife is running and I can't install the ILife 04.
I dont see that it's running anywhere???
The reason I'm doing this is to avoid the letterbox in
IMovie HD. I have found that if you inadvertently recorded
on your camera in 16:9 you're stuck with letterbox but if
you open same in ILife 04 it is standard 4:3. I have tried trashing everything (that was ILife)on the drive that I want to put ILife 04 but I keep getting that message. If I dump 06 (on the other drive which may be causing the problem)and then load 04, then reload 06 on the other separate drive will there still be a conflict? Any thoughts?

OK...thanks for clarifying.
Project file should be on your main hard drive...the same one that has the operating system. So if the media drive fails, you still have the project that you can use to rebuild. BUT...backup that project to either the media drive, or another drive (Flash drive) just in case your OS drive fails.
Media, Renders, Exports...they can all go on one hard drive. It is actually better to keep the media and the render files in one area...keep things organized and tidy.
Camera originals...back up on separate drives.

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