Missing project

I have successfully made several little movies with iMovie 6, eventually making a DVD. When I opened my current project in progress however, I got the message that the project was made with an earlier version and if I opened it the earlier version would no longer read it. Sounded OK, since I hadn't used an earlier version, but when I clicked OK, iMovie opened up with nothing in the project. Aaaarrrrrgh! Has anyone else dealt with this situation? Thank you for any ideas.
John

Hi John - find the project 'package' (has a star icon on it), open it with Control-Click, then click on 'Show Package Contents'. Once there, open the Media folder - anything inside? Also try playing the QT file found in the Share>DVD folder.
Any luck?
Have you looked in the project's Trash?
Where was the project stored? If on an external drive, it should be formatted Mac OS Extended, and not Fat32 or some other Windows format.

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Anyone recovered from a similar issue?
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