IMovie "import" issues...

Hi to everyone. This is my first post so if I say something wrong or repeat a question that has already been posted please pardon my "newbieness". In a vain attempt at trying to save space on the startup drive I purchased an external 500GB WD "MyBook" and connected it via USB2 as FW wasn't an option with the model. I then created 2 partitions calling one of them "Movies" and formatted it. I then copied the entire "Movies" folder from my home directory onto the new partition. I moved the original "Movies" folder into the trash and then created a symbolic link to the folder on the new partition and unfortunately had to empty the trash. Opening iMovie'08 I see all of the projects that I was working on before however only about half of them are showing the content (the same is true with the events folder). After talking to a Genius at a local Apple store I was told to remove the symlink and that use the iMovie interface instead that it would created the links for me. I have removed the link I created in my home directory and now cannot seem to get iMovie to "see" any of the project or event files (all of them within the Finder window are grayed out).
What do I have to do now in order to get iMovie to see the folder with all of the associated Events and Projects I had originally on the startup drive?
Thanks.

First, you need to move the project and event files back to where they were on your internal drive. They must be in the same path as when the projects were originally done.
If you don't have room on yoru internal drive to do this, I would suggest trying the following: Move one project at a time back to its original position, along with all event files that are linked to that project. See if you can see it in iMovie.
If you can, then you can move the event files to yoru external drive from within iMovie (leave the project files on the internal drive). Click View/Events By Volume. Now drag and drop your event files to the icon for your external drive.

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Can be so much.
Often Camera has to be connected to Charger/mains during Capture.
An majority is a faulthy - badly connected FW-Cable (USB don't work at all)
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Cable
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Mac
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from LKN 1935.
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from Karsten.
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check.
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
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jiggaman15dg wrote
if you have adobe cs3 or 4 and have the adobe bridge on close that
or no firewire will work
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DJ1249 wrote
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