IMovie Lost project after

First and foremost my MacBookPro Operates on OS X Version 10.9.4 ...
I was working on an iMovie for a really loooooong time and my computer got really hot and just froze up completely ... I tried letting it sit but eventually had no other choice then just manually powering it off. When I turned it back on it asked if I wanted to restore the programs I had running (which the only one that was running was iMovie) I clicked yes... when iMovie was reopened the event with all the footage and content was still there but the movie project was gone... I just about cried.
I looked on other Apple Forums for this and tried the process of locating the com.apple.iMovieApp.plist file in the Library but that didn't work...
Any solutions that will actually work would be AMAZING!

Hi
A. To get it back - Have no idea - Most probably not - As I see it there is more than one problem here if the project got lost e.g. moving of other folders as iMovie Event's and iMovie Projec's - CANT DO THAT on desktop as this results in broken links back to iMovie = most probably hard to impossibly to mend.
Moving Event's and Project's must be done WITHIN iMovie application AND ONLY TO Hard Disks (or ev. USB Memories) that are Mac OS Extended (hfs) Formatted ! UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO for Video (even if You use FinalCut - it doesn't work - must be Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted)
B. There are no copies of any material in any iMovie Project's at all - the Project is just a short TEXT document describing What material that is used (Movie's, Photo's and Audio's) and where they are stored e.g. iPhoto Library, iTunes or in iMovie Event's. So if audio on an Audio-CD or USB-memory is used - the pointers in the Project points to this storage and if it is ejected - info is broken.
I do first
• create a folder named as my movie
• in this I put my photos and audio files
• then I use these files in my movie projects + video from Event's window.
THIS folder can not BE MOVED - so I put it from start in my User Account and here in Movie folder. But that's me.
All my photos are .jpg ONLY
All my audio is .aiff ONLY - NO .mp3 or other alient format - I use AudaCity (free on Internet) to convert all to .aiff 44.1kHz or 48kHz 16-bit.
C. But why Your project disappeared - is strange - My guess is that iMovie pref. file got corrupted - If You made Force Quit or Panic Halt - this use to be a major reason to this.
I trash the pref files - AND
Run Repair Permissions - Disk Util tool
to keep my Mac happy.
Yours Bengt W

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