IMovie - Archiving projects and events

I use iMovie 11, 9.09 (1795)
1.  I have some older projects and events that I moved onto external drives and now I have read that you loose stuff when you move them with finder and not in iMovie.  What do you loose and is there any way to recover them?
2. I want to confirm that the right way to move them onto an external drive is to use command-drag within iMovie
3. If the project in iMovie is at the top, and my drive is at the bottom off the screen, how do I drag it down to the drive off the screen?  It doesn't scroll down to it.
Thanks!

I use iMovie 11, 9.09 (1795)
1.  I have some older projects and events that I moved onto external drives and now I have read that you loose stuff when you move them with finder and not in iMovie.  What do you loose and is there any way to recover them?
2. I want to confirm that the right way to move them onto an external drive is to use command-drag within iMovie
3. If the project in iMovie is at the top, and my drive is at the bottom off the screen, how do I drag it down to the drive off the screen?  It doesn't scroll down to it.
Thanks!

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