IMovie exports without producing movie

Hello,
I've created a relatively large movie (about 1.5 hours- 3.2GB in large export format). I go to export it and after a few hours it seems to be done though the movie is nowhere to be found. my hard drive tells me the space required for the movie is being used though when i close the program and restart the mac the space there again. i've tried three times now using different save locations including an external disk.
anyone clues to what's going on? is the movie too large for this mac to handle? my only thought is that i have less than 10GB on the hard drive- would this cause the problem when exporting the movie?
Here are the specs:
Mac OS X Lion: V 10.7
iLife 11
Processor 2.26GHz intel core 2 Duo
2GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Thanks

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