IMovie '09 Unable to import to network home - need real solution

Question

We have a small educational network of just over 40 macs (20 of which are MacBooks, 20 iMacs) and 1 Xserve. Since the update to iMovie '09 no network users are able to make use of iMovie due to the "Can't Create Event" error (no permissions to write to /iMovie Events.localized) which is well documented.
The one solution I can find is well documented and quite easy to accomplish with ARD, but it involves creating a local folder on the root of each machine's hard drive to store iMovie events! This is unfortunately completely useless to us. The entire point of having network home folders in the first place is so that any student or staff member can work on any system.
Does anyone have a solution which actually works in this situation?

Answer 1

Xenolith wrote:
 Check out the following link
http://carryflag.blogspot.com/2010/06/imovie-event-library-on-network-drive.html ?showComment=1295542318125#c1534567214781547602
The tip form the above article is to do the following in Terminal
defaults write -app iMovie allowNV -bool true
I am not sure if the other responders have tried it yet. I do have my own tip. The problem is similar to other programs I have come across not working properly with network home directories, e.g. Adobe Acrobat Pro. I discovered that several of these badly written programs will work with network home directories with no complicated adjustments if you share the network home directories via NFS instead of AFP.
To do this you will need to edit the share properties, and then reselect the home directory location for each user account in Workgroup Manager. The old afp home directory path would look something like
afp://server.example.com/Volumes/Users
the new NFS path would look something like
nfs://server.example.com/Volumes/Users
Workgroup Manager will continue to list the old AFP style path until you have changed all the users to the new path.
Might be worth trying with a test user account.