Imovie upgrade lost folders within events

Now that I upgraded, I lost folders in my events labeled ex. "2013" or months "September" etc..So now I don't know what year/month the movie was taken when I go into the new Imovie program. How can I access the original movie date taken ? On the old version, I had all my movies organized by months and years. Now they are all by events. I have no idea what year each one was taken to make a project.

I f you have identified the problematic event you can exclude it from the update by taking out of the iMovie 9 Events folder and parking it temporarily somewhere else. This should hopefully allow you to udate everything else. Obviously projects with media in that event will report missing media. After that it will a case of identifying the problematic clip.
If you are mid-way through editing projects you may want to consider finishing them in imovie 9 before moving to iMovie 10. As you are no-doubt aware there are lots of changes in imovie 10 which will take some time to get used to.
Geoff.

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