Missing Movies Folder in Sidebar

When opening a Finder window, one of my sidebar folders is missing. I have the Applications, Documents, Pictures, Music and User folders, but the Movies folder is nowhere to be seen. I tried searching for it in Spotlight and got nothing. Because of this, I have no Movies directory to save my iMovie projects in. How can I take care of this problem?

The special icon is automatically given by the Finder to a folder named Movies that resides in the users home folder, and automagically gives it the cool custom icon in the Sidebar when it is dragged there. People have been known to mess this up by pasting an icon on the folder themselves. Sometimes a restart of the Finder or the computer may be necessary to get the custom icon to display. There are a number of folders that the Finder treats this way in the home folder.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Similar Messages

Mail app missing "Archive" folder in sidebar for iCloud account.

This seems like it should be an easy fix but, it's not. I've been trying all day. Basically, the sidebar in the mail app now only provides Inbox, Sent, (VIP if set up) Junk and Trash. It used to also have three other folders. (Drafts, Archive and Flagged) Now, I am able to view Inbox, VIP's, Sent, Drafts and Flagged by the drop-down menu right above "MAILBOXES". But neither on the drop-down menu or the sidebar is the "Archive" folder located. If I want to archive a message I certainly can by clicking the "Archive" button in the top toolbar. But, the whole folder used to be in the sidebar where I can view "saved" messages just like I would on my iPhone.
I have found a way to put it back temporarily but if I quit the mail app, the folder goes missing again. These are the steps I have done to put it back in the sidebar.
Original image when app is opened: No "Archive" folder.
I click the gear on bottom left of app. And then I clicked "Get Account Info".
This new window opens up and give me options. And so I clicked "Archive" and then "Show Messages".
After doing that I noticed that the "Archive" folder is now back where I have always seen it. And, I can view all messages I've saved there whether it be from the mail app, my iPhone or iCloud on the web.
If I quit the application I have to start all over again to retrieve the folder. Although it's not a long process it can be annoying and for some reason it opens two full windows of the app.
I am only asking about this for iCloud e-mail not Gmail or Yahoo! etc.
Why is the folder not there anymore? How can it be placed permanently again?
I can import it but anytime I move a message to the imported "Archive" folder it's only saving desktops messages and not all that possess iCloud.
The simple question is how to keep that "Archive" folder in the sidebar, as it is pictured in the last picture, the way it used to be, all the time.
-Randy

I had the same problem today with (Mavericks) Mail and was able to fix this easily:
In the search bar, look up some email which is in the archive. In the upper right corner of this email you find two links: "details" and "archive ..". klick on that "archive". it will place the archive folder back in the sidebar permanently.

Missing movie files in iPhoto 08

I have just noticed that in some of my events the movie is missing (the last six). In checking the finder I see that the actual file is missing too. The only changes I have made is to upgrade to snow leopard and I got a magic mouse. There are .mov files in other folder and the movie shows in the iPhoto. I noticed this because the magic mouse wont open the movie files in iPhoto.
So I have two problems: One: where have my recent movies gone that were once iPhoto. (They are not in iMovie and I have checked Time Machine) and two: why wont my mouse open a movie in iPhoto.
Any help will be great!

When you Control-click on one of the missing movie's thumbnails and select Show File from the contextual menu what do you see?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto (iPhoto.Library for iPhoto 5 and earlier versions) database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger or later), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. There are versions that are compatible with iPhoto 5, 6, 7 and 8 libraries and Tiger and Leopard. Just put the application in the Dock and click on it whenever you want to backup the dB file. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.
NOTE: The new rebuild option in iPhoto 09 (v. 8.0.2), Rebuild the iPhoto Library Database from automatic backup" makes this tip obsolete.

How do i restore the all movies folder in finder?

this is what im talking about.
http://images.apple.com/macosx/features/images/findergallery0620071016.jpg
if you look below the "search for" you see All images, All movies, and All documents. i want to restore the ALL MOVIES folder. please help...

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the Sidebar tab, and turn it back on.
(28626)

How to get Movie folder back to favourites?

Hi,
When I was trying to mount my NAS, I made a mistake and mounted it to the existing Movie folder:
sudo mount -o rw,bg,hard,resvport,intr,noac,nfc,tcp 192.168.1.104:/volume1/video /Users/hooman/Movies
I then right clicked the Movies folder in favourites and removed it. Now after a restart, I see that the mount is no longer active, but neither is the Movie folder in the favourites. I still can see it under my user name though.
But when I try to bring back the Movies to the favourites, it doesn't work anymore. (See below). Is there an exception log I could check out?
Thanks

Thanks.
I am an idiot.
I tried to drag the Documents folder from the sidebar and it wasn't working. Now I did it from my home folder and its fine.

Dimensions/Codec/Duration columns in Movies folder ... not available elsewhere?

I have my movies folder "arranged by" date created ... in this mode, if you right-click the column headers, you get additional column options (duration/codec/dimensions).
Is there any way to get these choices in other video folders (that's not the default Movies folder)?
It's not available outside of that folder.

Yeah, that's a little of what I was talking about when I mentioned my faith in mac and such. It turned into a Quicktime question when that's what isn't playing the vids at all, and that's what SHOULD be playing the vids and there isn't a "VLC" or "DivX" forums here that I could find. Sorry if I missed them.
Now if you didn't know the answer you could have just not answered as I've had enough attitude with regards to this and every other problem I've had that I haven't wanted to cough up 40 bucks for just to have some guy tell me over the phone that he doesn't know what the problem is either. Either answer, or don't, or direct me to the right place please so I can go on with looking for people that actually would like to help me, or look into going PC.

.m4V files don't appear in iTunes until played from iTunes' 'Movies' folder

Some .m4v camcorder movie files (from a recent .avi conversion using Handbrake) just don't appear in my iTunes 'Movies' library until I double-click on them in the iTunes 'Movies' folder. Handbrake did the batch conversion and placed the converted files in the iTunes 'Movies' folder.
All of the converted files are visible in that 'Movies' folder of iTunes. And when I double-click them they play in an iTunes window. iTunes 'Movies' section seems unable to display them until they have first been played from the iTunes 'Movies' folder. Am I missing something about the way iTunes handles .m4v files?
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this problem? Any idea what the issue might be?
Thanks.

Problem.
I just tried turingtest2's suggestion and it didn't work.
I converted an H264 .mov file in Handbrake and output the conversion to the 'Automatically Add to iTunes' folder. But it was not added to iTunes - it ended up in the 'Not Added' folder and remained there until I played it from that location. Then it immediately turned up in iTunes 'Movies' folder.
The Handbrake conversion was to an 'Apple TV' compatible .m4v file.
Any idea what the problem might be?

How can I make iTunes accept an alias as a movies folder?

I love how iTunes organises my media files. But I need to keep my movie purchases on a different, external HD with USB 3.0.
Creating an alias of the folder "Movies" I've copied to the HD and moving the alias back on place into the user's local Library ends in disaster. All movies that have been in the folder before moving it to the new HD are still playable.
All newly purchased movies are downloaded out of the "Movies" folder at top level directory instead on the external HD. I can copy them to the external HD aliased "Movies" folder, but they won't appear in iTunes after dragging the files onto the iTunes window. I get an error message that says, the appopriate folder is missing. What can I do to make iTunes accept the aliased "Movies"-Folder as default for purchased movies?

iTunes is very good, and has been for years, at totally ignoring alises and symbolic links, particularly when another drive is involved. If you want to keep movies on a separate drive you will have to take a humbler approach and drag them to the external drive, then add them from there (hold down the option/alt key while adding to iTunes so iTunes doesn't copy them back to your main drive). Maybe some day in the distant future the programmers of iTunes will realize many users have to use external drives since the ones supplied with the computers these days are pretty small (my 12 year old computer has a bigger drive), and if Apple wants people to buy huge media files from the iTunes Store they need to factor this into design. Send feedback to:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Root Movie Folder filling up

I bought another 4TB drive to put my Project Folder and Event Folder on. Everything is there, and everything gets copied there. Why is my root movie folder on my boot drive (my user account) still accumulating 150GB+ of files for this movie I'm making? I thought I had successfully put those on the new 4TB drive. The Project Folder and Event Folder on the 4TB are huge too. What's going on? Augh! I keep running out of space. How can I fix this without screwing up my film (noticed that FCP X doesn't really 're-connect' files if you point back to them like FCP7. I'm an idiot.

It sounds like FCPX is getting confused by the two copies of the same Event. I remember reading in the manual that it will use the first reference it finds, and it probably looks at the Movies folder first.
I should note that FCPX does not play well with RAID drives, nor does it work with a drive specified to host time machine backups. So you first need to confirm these two do not apply in your situation.
Next,try this:
1. Close down FCPX.
2. On your 4TB drive, rename the FCP folders so FCPX no longer sees them (this is a backup just in case things go awry, which you will end up deleting if all went well)
3. Open FCPX and go to the Project view (command-zero).
4. Select your project and in the File menu choose "Duplicate Project"
5. In the popup window, select your 4TB drive in the Location dropdown, and "Project File and Referenced Events." Press OK. FCPX should now make a copy of your project and events on the 4TB drive.
6. Wait for this background process to finish, and then quit FCPX.
7. Using the Finder, move your Project and Events folders that got copied out of their original folders in the Movies directory to another location (but don't delete them yet. this is a backup just in case things go awry, which you will end up deleting if all went well)
8. Restart FCPX; you should now see your Events and Projects that are on the 4TB drive. Confirm this and confirm all is working as it should (e.g., no missing media).
9. If you are satisfied all went well, delete the backup copies you made in steps 2 and 7.

Missing movie file

I have created a movie in imovie. When I share it with idvd everything is fine and I can burn a dvd (the 1st time). The next time I try to open that dvd project I get a message saying "missing movie file clip 01.dv. Would you like to search for it?" I can't seem to find it anywhere. It says the dvd won't play properly with out it, then idvd usually ends up freezing up. That movie name isn't even part of my original movie. So everytime I want to make a change or burn another dvd of this project, I have to go back into imovie and export to idvd again.
Please help!

If you get a good first burn every time that you initially export your iMovie project to iDVD, try saving the iDVD as a disk image instead of burning a DVD disk. When you save as a disk image iDVD goes through the same encoding process as if you were burning to a DVD disk. Once you have burned a disk image you then can open and close the disk image multiple times to burn multiple DVD disks from the disk image, using Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility, without again going through the encoding process. So, if the first burn is good, all the other burns will be good.
It is oft recommended to close iDVD and iMovie and trash the files named com.apple.iMovie.plist and com.apple.iDVD.plist. When you relaunch, the programs will replace those files with new ones. Then run a permissions repair using Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
If you are storing your project on an external drive, make sure that the drive is formatted correctly. It should be Mac OSExtended or Mac OS Extended (journaled).
Make sure that you have enough hard drive free space for iDVD to work. It takes at least 5GB of free disk space to burn a disk, and you should have more than that if possible.
Did you actually look into your iMovie media folder to see if Clip 01.dv exists? Control click on your iMovie project icon and select Show Package Contents/Media. See if it's in there.
I know that in iDVD5 (not sure about iDVD6) If you added an asset to your project, and then removed it and deleted it from your hard drive, iDVD would still think that that asset was in the project. Because it was deleted from the hard drive, iDVD wouldn't be able to find it and would report it as a missing asset. Maybe that's what is happening to you here. The solution then would be to retrieve that deleted asset and put it back on your hard drive so you can reinsert it into the project.
Always a good idea to archive your iDVD project rather than just doing an ordinary save. Takes up more disk space, but an archive bundles all of the project assets with it so everything is intact if you move it off to an external drive or another computer. Otherwise, you can get broken links.
Good luck with this.

Front row doesn't see remote source movie folder

Hi,
I did a forum search and didn't see this addressed anywhere else.
When I open a remote source in Leopard Front Row, and navigate to the movie folder, it displays what is in the local movie folder rather than what is in the remote computer's movie folder. It will see movies in the remote iTunes library. All machines I have tested are at 10.5.1. I enabled iTunes sharing on each of the machines I used as a remote source.
Is there a setting I am missing somewhere or is this just the way Front Row works in Leopard?
Thanks!

Funny, I was just investigating this myself. This occurred in my setup as well, which includes:
- iMac running Leopard 10.5.1, iTunes 7.5 (19) with password-free sharing enabled, running as a media server, hosting these types of files (all legally purchased and owned, in case anyone from the MPAA is reading this):
- DVD movies ripped to VIDEO_TS folders using MacTheRipper
- MP4 movies ripped with Handbrake
- MPG and MOV format home movies
- Macbook Pro running Front Row 2.0 (229) on Leopard 10.5.1 as a client
- Local Wifi D-Link 624 (802.11g) network with external firewalls, but no restrictions on local traffic
- OS X firewalls disabled on both iMac and Macbook Pro
As a workaround, I did the following:
1. Using Finder on the Macbook Pro client, connected to the iMac Movies folder. This mounts the remote folder locally on the client.
2. Grabbed the iMac Movies icon and dragged it to the Macbook Pro client's Movies folder. This creates an alias to the remote folder. If you want, you can rename this alias to something like "Remote Movies".
3. Opened Front Row > Movies in the Macbook Pro. I now can see my locally stored movies as well as the remotely-stored movies under the newly-created folder alias. All my remote movies now play locally in Front Row.
Anyone else have a more-elegant solution?
Regards,
Steven

Quicktime 10.4 opens a movie folder at startup, help!!!

Hey guys, this is the most annoying thing ever...every time i open my quicktime on Yosemite 10.10.1 (quicktime version is 10.4 (833)) the movie folder opens up, so i have to manually shut it in order to do something else, ie. record screen, audio, etc. Can anyone please help me stop the folder from opeining up automatically.
System is Yosemite 10.10.1 and mac is imac 27in mid 2011.
cheers!

The flashing question mark means that a valid bootable drive wasn't found. On one extreme this can mean the drive is completely non-functional. On the other extreme it can mean that there's nothing wrong with the drive but a vital file is damaged or missing. In the latter case disk diagnostics might report that the disk was fixed or even that there was nothing wrong with it. Disk Utility doesn't look at every file to make sure it is okay - it examines the drive's directory to make sure it is valid. The drive's directory can be valid even if it isn't bootable.
In your case the best course is probably to attempt performing an Archive & Install.

Accidentally lost Finder "Movie" folder icon-Help

I accidentally dragged the "Movie" folder in the Finder Window onto the desktop and when I tried dragging it back to the Finder, it lost it's Icon design(it's just a regular blue folder now).
How can I restore it's custom icon without having to reinstall Tiger. Thanks in advance!
G4 Dual 1.0Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.5)

The Finder has certain "special" folders in your home directory. They are recognized as special just by their name. If you have a folder named "Movies" it will be given the custom folder icon in your home folder and the even more special icon when in the sidebar. It only has these special icons when it is in the home folder. By moving it you disrupted this. Putting it back ought to fix it, but Finder may have developed amnesia about it or just isn't refreshing itself. Try restarting.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

How do I upload videos from an SD card to the movies folder in Finder on my iMac?

I'm having trouble uploading videos from my SD card to my iMac. I'm wanting to save it in the "Movies" folder in Finder. When I open the SD card on my iMac, I am able to view the videos in QuickTime Player. They were an AVCHD file format. It gave me no option of saving the videos - not even with dragging them. So, I tried moving all of the files versus just one (in other words, instead of opening the file to view all of the videos, I just dragged the whole file without opening it). It saved to my iMac, but in the same way as it was on the SD card - I wasn't able to actually save the videos themselves. They were only able to be viewed with QuickTime Player - I couldn't do anything else with them. So, I took my SD card out of the computer and put it back in the video camera. I then realized than I could not view the videos in the camera - they wouldn't show up. I then plugged the SD card back into the iMac. The videos were now saved under a BDMV folder versus the AVCHD folder they had been under earlier. The AVCHD folder was there, but would not open. When I tried to open it, all it said was, "This operation could not be completed." The BDMV folder allows me to view the videos in QuickTime Player, but I still cannot save them to my iMac from the SD card. I even tried saving the videos to iPhoto by dragging the BDMV folder into iPhoto. All it did was say, "The following files could not be imported. The file is in an unrecognizable format." So, now, I am completely confused as to what I need to do as to save the videos onto my computer, and even how the videos are now saved under a BDMV folder versus the original AVCHD folder in the SD card. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could help me with this problem. Thanks!

You should have an icon of the SD card on the desktop - do you? If not, go to Finder Preferences > General and make sure these items are checked to show:
Once the icon is showing, you can just drag the card content to your desktop. It depends on what you want to do with the video - just watch or edit in iMovie to share online or burn a DVD?

How do i save a .m4v file to the movie folder when it will only save to the music folder?

I have a movie file in my ITunes music folder that i want to mover to the movie folder because it is a movie. The file type is a .m4v. When i click and drag it itunes wont let me drop it in movies.
What do i do??

You drag it using Windows Explorer and not in iTunes. Itunes library merely link the movie in iTunes library to your file location.
After you have dragged the file to another location, remember to link your original movie in itunes library to the new location. Right mouse click the movie, GET INFO, click LOCATE and direct to the new location (otherwise, your movie will not play)

Missing Movies Folder in Sidebar

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for