IMovie 11 project just disappeared!

I left my iMac for 20 minutes and when I returned the iMovie 11 project I had spent a whole week working on had disappeared. Nobody had touched the computer and it had not frozen/crashed. I can find no trace of the file using Spotlight to search the entire hard drive, the attached external hard drive and the trash. Where has the file gone? Where does iMovie 11 put movie projects that are moved to the trash because on my computer they are not to be found in the Trash which is what i would expect.

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• DO NOT move or alter any folder named
- iMovie Event's
- iMovie Project's
(or resembling to this)
ON DESKTOP/FINDER
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Medicine (that might help) : When iMovie is NOT RUNNING - Move them back to their original places.
This can work - if they was not moved out to an external hard disk - NOT FORMATTED as Mac OS Extended.
( formatted as: UNIX / DOS / FAT32 / Mac OS Exchange - can not be used for Video ! )
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