IMovie 2014 frozen at startup... tried everything, can't find "preferences" file in Library

Hi there. I have never had any problems with iMac until a few days ago. It freezes at startup.
Nothing turns up in Preferences under Library. There's no "com.apple.imovie" anything. No "iMovie" files. So nothing I can delete there.
I've repaired permissions.
I deleted iMovie. I reinstalled iMovie.
I tried deleting "RobWedding001" without emptying the trash, and loading the program up.
I've tried just letting the program loading and it's still frozen.
I've restarted my computer to see if anything would happen.
I'm stumped.

Hi
You say: problems with iMac until a few days ago. It freezes at startup.
Is this when Yo start-up Your Mac from being turned OFF
or is it when You try to start iMovie ?
If first one - I would go to Apple-Shop/Genius and get help.
If iMovie - Try to start it - BUT NOW KEEP alt-key and cmd-key down during upstart.
You ara aware of that there are at least two kinds of Libraries on You Mac
- Root level Library - the one You find when opening Macintosh HD (or Boot Hard Disk - first window)
- User Library - Hidden - and the one where You find the faulty referens files.
On top row menu (Apple symbol top Left hand Corner
followed by Finder / Archive / Edit / Content / Go / Window / Help
Select Go and now keep alt-key down - and in some versions of Mac OS X.7 onwards - the User Library link will show up.
Yours Bengt W

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