Importing/external drive/consolidate problems

This is strange one, that I can't figure out. This all started when I tried to import a couple of CD's into iTunes, and when I would go back to play the imported songs, each song would only play for about 30 seconds and then skip to the next track (the next track being a song imported off of the same cd.
My library is on an external firewire drive, that I've had no issues with before. I noticed that I can't move music files to the drive either, but I can move video files, text files, word files, with no issue. I also noticed that I had some stuff on my Mac's harddrive, so I did the consolidate library option and I get the message Copying Music failed. The disk could not be read from or written to. This happens when I try to simply move the music in a Finder window as well. And as stated before, I can move all types of files on and off with no issue. I'm really confused on this on. Not sure what to do.
Also, if I play any of the existing music from before I noticed this problem, they play fine, just like always.
I hope that's enough info, anyone have any ideas?

Once I reformatted the drive and put the old data back on, it worked fine. Still doesn't make sense.

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+copy and paste an iMovie (.iMovieProject) file 10.66G to a 30G external drive results in "error code 1309" and fails to finish copying
+a 10.66G movie where about 99 percent of the clip was deleted still reads as 10.66G even though the clip is only 26 seconds long.
Premature release of program me thinks.
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Welcome to iMovie Discussions ..premature posting of question, methinks. (..without, perhaps, having searched for or read any previous discussion of these or similar topics..)
a - This is the iMovie HD (version 5) Discussion ..there's a separate area for iMovie HD 6 ..but I'll still be happy to answer your questions!
1 - When audio is "extracted", the original clip is simply muted, and a copy of the original audio from it is pasted into a separate audio track below the video. Normally, you'd select an individual clip (or clips) from which to extract (Copy) the audio. If nothing specific is selected, then everything may be extracted.
2 - An external drive must be formatted as 'Mac OS Extended' or HFS+ for iMovie to be able to work with files stored there. It may be formatted in PC (Windows) FAT 32 format, and there may be a file size limit in that format which is incompatible with your Mac operating system. See this page of error codes, where "error -1309 fileBoundsErr: file's EOF offset mark or size is too big" ..that means that the End Of File marker is incompatible with what's being copied. Googling will find other info, such as this discussion, which prompts a handy reminder that your external drive must be connected by FireWire, not by USB, for you to be able to edit and play via the external drive: a USB connection isn't consistently fast enough for playing video.
3 - When you delete part of a clip, in iMovie HD (any version) all the rest of the material is still saved, in case you want to Undelete, or make other alterations which need still having access to the original material. [ This is part of the enhanced "non-destructive editing" which was recently introduced into iMovie. In previous versions, when you deleted something, it was irretrievable! ] That's why the full 10.66GB remains. You could 'Share' (Export) just that 26 sec clip to DV, then re-import it as a new clip, and you could then delete the entire original clip, thus regaining the full 10.66GB of space.
So it's not a premature release: it's a considered, robust, thoughtful release, which now incorporates several solid features which make it more reliable than some previous releases.
Once you get to know how - and why - it works the way it does, you may be glad that it does work as it does.
There are still some bugs in it - many to do with "rendering" ..the rewriting of adjusted video, particularly of adjusted still photos within iMovie - but don't judge it just on a quick first glance!
Hope you find it works for you ..it's a great program, I think.

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Rod,
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Thanks for the reply.
Has performed this way since install, which was about 72 hours ago.
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I have a G-TECH 1TB external drive (7 months old) and decided to use that with Time machine to back up my files. I hadn't used the drive for about 4 months but it had worked fine the last time I used it. I connected it to Time Machine and a back up failure message of some kind appeared. Since then the drive is unusable... I'm lucky if I can get the drive to mount ("the disk you inserted is not readable by this computer)" yet I can't reformat it - disk utility can't erase or partition it. It throws up a variety of error messages (can't unmount drive & resource busy are a couple) which usually ends with the spinning ball of death. Tonight I spent my hard earned money on Disk Warrior, which appeared to check and rebuild file systems and the drive mount now mounts but I still can't reformat it or use it in any way. Have now spend hours trying to mount and reformat it and it's driving me mad...
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