IMovie Can't Find Moved Projects

I am trying to move all of my iMovie Files (events folder and projects folder) from an external drive to my internal drive. I have moved the event files successfully from within iMovie. But I don't know how to move the project files. I tried moving them manually, but now iMovie doesn't see the projects anymore.

How did you move the projects folder to an external drive in the first place, if it was with the use of a symlink then you should be able to copy your projects folder back to its default location (in your movies folder) and delete the symlink.

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Did you by any chance move the Events and/or Projects folders? Are they on an exteranl hard drive and it is now not plugged in?

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I installed a second 1Tbit drive and moved my photos, movies, music and documents from the primary drive to the new drive. I also created alias's for each of these folders.
Although iTunes didn't care about the alias, and Aperture reset it's file location automatically as well - the media browser had a problem. I have the new version of iLife but had not yet opened iPhoto - but when I did it rebuilt it's library and then showed up. Deleting the alias for the photo folder entirely let Aperture show up - but iMovie is whacked. I can see only one simple short event that I had opened immediately after installing iLife - even though this event is no longer on the main drive, it's over on the second drive and "Show in Finder" clearly showed it in the new location.
But all the other events and video files are not visible. I can see them in Finder, and if I click on them I get to see them play just fine. But attempts to import them return an error
Copy Failed
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I have deleted and let recreate the preferences file - but this only removed the one file I could see.
Both drives are Mac OS Extended (Jorunaled) - and both report no errors.
Trying this and that, iMovie has created a new folder for iMovie Events on the second drive, and if I move things into this they suddenly appear - but not my projects.
I can certainly move the Movie folder back to the main drive, but the intent was to free up space on that drive, and to increase performance by having the application on one drive and the user data on another.
I can't be the only person to ever move the Movie folder - but I can't find any current and helpful info on the matter. I do see that a few others have recently expereinced some issues with external drives and iMovie - might be a similar issue.

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Then open iMovie and verify that all is well.
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ha among other things the effect that my iMac can't connect to the remote drive (Buffalo Link Station another forum in another company), so I took the back-up disk connect via USB and voila iTunes finds all songs.
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