IMovie backup and duplicate events....

So i am moving up my works video archives onto an external drive and havig a few issues.
Whenever i move a project and event in iMovie it creates a new event folder will all the clips for each project i move.
The problem is that the projects and events are not always one-to-one. ie there are multiple projects from one event, and some prokects from many events.
When I move the projects across all the events are copied as well, giving me duplicate event folders of the extact same footage.
I tried to merge the events, but that just gives me multiple clips in the single folder.
The worst so far is 9 copies of a single event because grabs from event have been used in 9 projects.
As a result my external hard drive is filling up very very quickly.
I have tried making alias, but iMovie doenst recognise them.
Any suggestion in how to fix this?
Thanks SGIT

Hi Paul,
I tested with 3.7.1.4 and 3.7.1.5. In both versions I can see the issue.
reg
Dasun.

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