IMovie viewer funky...  doesn't show project.

Don't know what I did yesterday. I think I pressed command z too many times after I made a mistake and wanted to undo what I did. What I got was a viewer that won't show what is happening in the project. It shows video when you scroll over the events, but not when you scroll over the project. Also, the specific project I was working on when I did whatever I did, now thinks it is a different project and plays the sound from a totally different project.
Can anyone help? Thank you.

Hello to all with the same problem. I think I have THE workaround for this problem. It’s really quite simple. I tried deleting the caches and reinstalling the software and every other workaround posted here such as trying to repair disk permissions etc.
But the solution is:
1. Make sure you have the latest update of iMovie 09, go to software update and check for any new updates you don’t have and download them.
-Note this is important as you will need a particular version of iMovie that will have an option in the file menu to Consolidate Media. Check that this feature is there before attempting anything further instructions.
2. If you do not have an External Hard Drive this will all be very difficult so go out and get one if you don’t they are very useful and you should have a backup of all your files in any case. So before moving to the next step insure your Hard drive with a significant amount of space is ready to go.
3. Once your update is complete go to the iMovie Project viewer, not the folder in the finder the Project library inside the iMovie application, select the project that is effected by the problem and drag it to Hard drive whilst holding the apple key so the file will move not copy. The image of the Hard drive should be located just underneath all of your projects, do not drag it to the image of the HD on the desktop.
2. 4. When you have dragged it over an option will come up asking you whether you want to copy the events, the clips or just the project. If you have a lot of events I would recommend selecting just clips as this will be a lot shorter. But for completeness it might be sensible to copy everything over so select copy events to move all of your iMovie video files over.
5. Simply close iMovie and open up the Hard drive and find the Project file that you have just copied over, when you open it should be in the same state as it was before. Go to file Consolidate media and the file should recalibrate itself.
Good luck, I did this a little while ago and feel like I may have missed out something so ask me if you have a problem. It seems that one of the updates that people have downloaded lacked a cache file and all of the projects that already existed became confused as to where to relate the master files back to. But if you move the files over and consolidate the media it recreates the caches and remakes the file in the same way. Or something like that ☺

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