Lost events in imovie library

Hi. I imported videos as new events and they were all in the library. But after quitting imovie, I can no longer see them in the library. Are they not saved after importing? How can I find them back? The search function did not help me. Can I trace them in Finder? Thanks.
PS I am using a MacBookPro retina purchased in April this year (2014) The imovie on it is therefore very recent.

You'll need to do a manual rebuild.
To create and populate a new *iPhoto 09* library:
Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
I stress: this is a brand new, green-field starting over. The only thing left from your previous library are the original photos.
In the iPhoto Preferences -> Events Uncheck the box at 'Imported Items from the Finder'
Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
Go into the iPhoto Library (Right Click -> Show Package Contents) on your desktop and find the Originals folder. From the Originals folder drag the individual Event Folders to the iPhoto Window and it will recreate them in the new library.
When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
Regards
TD

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I am going nuts with an iMovie project!
I am trying to make a movie of my recent vacation (which I do every year). I have already invested about 15 hours in the project. I opened iMovie tonight and tried to view it. Immediately, I noticed something was odd because as my cursor ran across clips in my project they did not show in the viewer and where ever the cursor was over a clip (either in the project or on a clip in the event I was working from) the thumbnail image in the filmstrip switched to light gray.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys.
I wound up resolving this on my own. I finally went to Time Machine and restored the folder "movies" under my account name. I went back about an hour before I stopped working on the project. This restored the project and allowed me to continue to work on it. I only lost about 3 minutes at the very end that I had to recreate (much better than recreating the entire project over). It has been about a week since the restore and (knock wood!) all has been well. I have learned the value of a Time Machine back-up.
One thing of note: Immediately after the restore I did have an issue with iMovie not recognizing my iTunes library. Once I opened iTunes and went back to iMovie the library was there.
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Greetings,
I have updated all of my projects and events from iMovie 9 to iMovie 10.0.1. They now all sit in different libraries on different external HDDs.
How do I move an event from one library to another library in iMovie 10? How do I copy an event from one library to another library in iMovie 10?
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John

Simply drag and drop from one library to another. See: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
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I took a series of events on my SOURCE MAC computer, and created a NEW LIBRARY with them on a SECOND MAC computer. Now when I try to open the file from either the SOURCE MAC or the SECOND MAC I get the following error:
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I checked the permissions and ownership of the file on the SECOND MAC and it shows my SECOND MAC USERID as having READ/WRITE authority.
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Lost Events in Library

I only have one event in my library, I used have more. When I open finder and look at the library file, its almost 40GiGs. But only 16 photos show up, when I open it. Any ideas why this is happening or how to recover those lost events?

You'll need to do a manual rebuild.
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Note this will give you a working library with the same Events and pictures as before, however, you will lose your albums, keywords, modified versions, books, calendars etc.
I stress: this is a brand new, green-field starting over. The only thing left from your previous library are the original photos.
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Move the iPhoto Library to the desktop
Launch iPhoto. It will ask if you wish to create a new Library. Say Yes.
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When you're sure all is well you can delete the iPhoto Library on your desktop.
Regards
TD

Imovie library has imported without event

I need to work on an edit started by another user. They used imovie 10.0.02, and I have recently upgraded to Yosemite, so have 10.0.06.
I am unfamiliar with the new library system and still the imovie 9 version for most things but for this project will use imovie 10.
He followed the instructions and created a new library with the projects and footage in it.
I've now copied this library onto my mac.
I now have the libraries showing up in my imovie 10.0.06, but there is no footage. The library file is 16GB, so I know it has footage in it - but none has been imported into imovie. In imovie the timeline has made it across, and titles etc are in tact, but there is no footage.
I tried deleting the imovie Theater and Imovie Library file and updating projects and events - but this hasn't worked.
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check in the old events and prohects folders from iMovie 11 for a flie indicating imovie10 migration or whatever it's a single file in each of these too folders. Delete these two or the one from the events and go back in iMovie 10 and click on refresh/actualise or whatever this is called. This help for me to see the migrated prohjevts

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This looks like a corrupted data base for the iMovie Library. Notice that the event has no event icon and looks like a clip. What you can try is close iMovie and go to the Library in the finder, probably in your movies folder on your boot drive unless you moved it. Save/duplicate it to your desktop as a precaution. Then right click on the original and select show package contents. Find and delete the CurrentVersion.flexolibrary file. Close the Library, reboot and then reopen iMovie. It should rebuild that file and you should be okay.

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I am trying to make sure that imovie 10 is not unnessarily taking up disk space. Previously, imovie 9 was pretty simple and did not create these imovie theater and library files, and I knew where to delete the events files that were copied into imove for editing. In imovie 10 however, I have not been able to find any files lingering in the events folder even though it looks as though (given the processing clock displayed) importing files into imovie 10 does involve copying without asking the user to chose like in imovie 9.
Question 1: does imovie 10 store the events files somewhere else and need to be deleted to recover disk space?
Question 2: there is this huge 14GB+ "imovie library.imovielibrary" file sitting in my movies folder. Is there a way get rid of it or shrink it? All the files that I "share" (ie output) from imovie are stored elsewhere within my movies folder (and then backed up). I really can use any disk space I can free up from imovie. I have already deleted the theater files that serve no useful purpose to me.
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A couple of thoughts....
When you convert your projects and events to iMovie 10 from iMovie 11, you have the option to keep your iMovie 11 Events and projects intact so you can continue to use iMovie 11.
If you took this option, it uses hard links so that both iMovie 11 and iMovie 10 can access the same clips but not take up double the space.
This has other implications:
1) If you delete your iMovie 10 event, it does not save you any space. You have to delete both the iMovie 10 and the iMovie 11 event to get back the space.
2) Hard links do not work when you copy to a new drive, so if you copy your iMovie 10 and your iMovie 11 events over to a new drive, now they will take up twice the space.
3) Therefore, if you are thinking of moving to a new drive, you should move the iMovie 11 events and projects over (from within iMovie 11). Then open iMovie 10 and convert the iMovie 11 stuff to iMovie 10, and it will use hard links and not take up double the space.
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Welcome Annie!
This forum tends to be more about PowerBook hardware issues. I think you might get more hits and better help by posting in the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger forums here:
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
To target the Mail portion of that forum, click the "Refine this List" under the word "Discussions" in that forum to get this view:
and then click on "Mail and Address Book" to tag your post.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14747

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Many users have lost photos while preforming a restore from backup or upgrading the iOS. Recall, only photos in the camera roll are backed up to iCloud. There is a way to turn backups for camera roll on/off, perhaps these users had camera roll turned off.
See:
Settings>icloud>Storage & Backups>Manage Storage, tap the device's name and on the next screen, be sure Camera Roll is turned on.
IMPORTANT...
Photos should be regularly synced to a computer (like you store photos from a digital camera) using either USB via iTunes (on a mac use iPhoto or Aperture to move them to an album) or using photo stream. If you have been doing that, then you can sync those photos back to your device.
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iMovies are not designed to be viewed in iPhoto. You should watch your movies from iTunes. You can SHARE/To iTunes and your movies will be in iTunes. From iTunes, you can watch them on your Mac, on your Apple TV, or you can sync to iPhone, iPad, iPod. You will also be able to access them through the Media Browser in Keynote, Pages, GarageBand, Logic, and iDVD.
The only movies that should be stored in iPhoto are short, unedited clips taken by a still camera. iMovie can edit them without taking them out of iPhoto.

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I have my iMovie library on an extral, USB drive.
I would like to temporarily take that drive to the livingroom, plug it in to a laptop (macbook pro), so I can view the videos on my larget TV screen.
After this I would like to return the drive to the office and plug it back to the iMac - which is the main machine I use for iMovie.
Is this possible to do without much hassle? Do I just plug the drive to the laptop and my iMovie files will be automatically viewed on iMovie on my other machine?
Will I be able to easily reverse the process?
Is it necessary to have both versions of iMovie be the same? or not?
Thank you.

Thanks GeeD! I have iMovie 11 on both the permanent iMac and the temporary MacBook Pro. Both running OS X 10.8.
Actually, I don't want to or need to do any work on the temporary laptop. All the work is done on the iMac. I just need to be able to play videos on the laptop (which I can connect more easily to my large screen TV). I want to play the raw "events" - without having to create a project, edit, export, etc. which is time consuming.
You mentioned "copying" the library to the new laptop. This is not an option for me and I hope it is not necessary. I have several terabytes of video in my event library. The current library is in en external USB drive. I'm hoping that I can just unplug the drive from the iMac and plug it to the temporary laptop without having to copy the videos. If I do that, will I immediately "see" all the events on the external drive? and more importantly, will I be able to reverse the process by simply unpluging the drive and replugging it to the iMac? or will it required configuration to point to a new library each time I move the external drive?
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