IMovie Project Won't Open on the Same Computer

I had just finished a long project. I went to export it. iMovie told me that their wasn't enough memory and to close the program. THis happe when making my last project. I did so and reopened it and everythign was fine.
This time however when I reopened it the project was missing from my project libaray!
Thankfully when I searched for it in Finder it IS there. But when I click to open it. iMovie opens, but the Project doesn't, nor does it apear in my in-iMovie project libaray on the side bar (though it is there in Finder).
Please help!

This has happened to me before... I opened a project I had created in a previous version of FCP in the current version, and It would crash for apparently no reason. But then I noticed though it would crash as soon as I moved the playhead to a specific part.
Turned out to be an old Motion file created in the previous version of motion, that I was using as lower thirds. I managed to delete the bad file from the sequence and thankfully everything else worked fine.
Good luck!
(Now to be on the safer side, I export movies of my Motion projects and use those in the sequence instead to avoid this sort of thing from happening.)

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