Moved my projects, doomed everything that is sacred, want to nuke and reset
So being "good with computers" I often skip the obvious and try and hack the crap out of things. So, I moved my projects to an external drive using finder because they did not seem to be part of a database of any kind. Well, long story short I bashed around at top speed and now iMovie makes it as far as a beachball and that's it. It has created thumbnails and processed everything, but stops there.
WHATEVER.
I just want to vaporize it and start from scratch. I have searched around for some kind of .pref file or .db to nuke to make it forget but it seems the whole iPhoto thing is the hang up.
Any ideas how to bash it's head in and make it act as a new-born iMovie and create everything from scratch? Like how you hold down a key during opening to force iPhoto to stop screwing around and rebuild the universe?
(I will re-import the projects one by one later - I want iMovie thinking my only videos are in iPhoto like the first time it was opened, processing for 2 billion years and what have you. The projects and events are tucked away from its unholy gaze.)
Message was edited by: EricoftheNorth
Message was edited by: EricoftheNorth
Clear your caches and plist is about as "virgin" as it gets.
http://unofficialimoviefaq.com/tt/problems.html
I hope the external drive was formatted Mac OS extended or you are not going to be happy when you move them back.
Daniel C. Slagle
Keeper of the "Unofficial" iMovie FAQ
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