IMovie: Unable to "Move Rejected to Trash"

When rejecting a clip in iMovie, I then found it impossible to move that clip to the trash. Clicking the "Move Rejected to Trash" button had absolutely no effect.
I found that the reason for this is that I had imported those movies from iPhoto, where I had originally brought them in from the camera. Closing iMovie, deleting the files in iPhoto, emptying the trash in iPhoto, and then relaunching iMovie solved the problem.

Any suggestions as to what is happening?
This seems to be a periodic bug for many users. Best advice is not to import what you don't plan to use. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to know which is which beforehand. If you haven't started building you project yet, you can always select the entire clip in the Event and use the "Contextual Menu" to reveal the location of the file you wish to delete. Then, in the finder, you can delete the file, delete the associated "Cache" and "Thumbnails" folders, close the application, and re-open it. Re-opening the application forces iMovie to re-thumbnail the event without the missing but unwanted file. (Have not tried this after using any of the Event contents in a Project as I assume it might break the project path references and I have never been that interested in taking a chance just to find out.)

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I have video clips that I have imported into my iMovie Events library, not vis iPhoto, which I can reject, but which will not then delete. The clips show up as rejected with the red line, but selecting the option to move rejected to trash does nothing.
I have other video clips that I have imported into my iMovie Events library, not via iPhoto, which I can reject, and which also WILL then move to trash
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I store my iMovie events on an external hard drive. I have used disk utility to verify the disk and it says all is OK. I have about 1/3 free spacestill on the external drive - and trash on my iMac is emplty (as is he iPhoto trash, although I cant see why that woudl be relevant)
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Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like youwant to delete rejected clips. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
iMovie '11: Delete unwanted video clips from an Event
To delete video clips permanently from your Event Library:
In the Event Library, click to select the Event you want to delete video from.
In the Event browser, select the frames or clips you want to remove from the Event, and then press Delete or click the Reject button (shown below) in the iMovie toolbar.
(The Reject button also has a small “x” if you have Advanced Tools turned on.)
If you’ve chosen All Clips from the Show pop-up menu (shown below), which appears below the Event browser, a red line appears across the top of the rejected frames.
If you’ve chosen Favorites Only or “Favorites and Unmarked,” the rejected clips disappear from view.
Choose File > “Move Rejected Clips to Trash.”
All the clips that are currently marked as “rejected” in any Event or project are queued to move to the Trash. This includes clips you may have marked previously, not only those you just rejected.
In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:
If you’re confident you know which clips you’ve previously rejected and you want to delete all of them, click “Move to Trash.”
The video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
If you want to review the clips that you’ve marked for deletion, click View Rejected Clips.
The Event browser shows just the rejected clips in the selected Event. Select any clips that you don’t want to delete, and then click the Unmark button.
To delete the rejected clips, click the “Move Rejected to Trash” button (A, below) in the upper-right corner of the Rejected Clips window.
Click the “Move to Trash” button in the dialog that appears; the video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

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