IMovie says I do not have enough disk space or permission

I continue to periodically get an error that says "Cannot create project.  Please check the disk to ensure that there is enough free space and you have permission to write projects."
I have almost 250 GB of free space and I have full admin on my Mac Book Pro.  iMovie and my OS are all up to date on updates.  I have repaired permissions (more than once) and I have restarted iMovie.  Not sure what's going on.
I'm trying to think of what I have not tried....
Is there a way for me to see where I am creating my project?  My concern is that it might be looking for a currently disconnected external drive, except that I have had this same error when that drive is connected (and I am pretty sure I never pointed anything to that drive anyway).
Any help here is appreciated.
Craig

it's not solved at all!
My assumption is just:
iMovie permanently read/writes data; not only when you import from cam or you quit iMovie. There are lots of background tasks happening, … that's why BY CONCEPT, all media should be on your internal drive! This guarantees a 100% accessability.
Another example: iM, by concept, can handle only hfs/'Mac' formatted drives; very few network drives are formatted that way… (more fat/Windows, or NTFS, which Mac reads, but can not write!)
So, in a 'networked' surrounding, it could happen, you access some music, or a photo or a video from 'some' drive, iM tries to update some meta-data - and fails.
I have imported movies into events from the network,…
I dare to say, this is the culprit. …
In case, all your media is now local, you could try the 'trash prefs'-routine, in hope, iMovie 'forgets' any external connections:
follow advice given in this user tip:
>>click>>                  How do I trash the iMovie Preferences File? and Why?
fingers crossed, this helped

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