Moving projects/evens folders

Hello. Trying to move the folders for iMovie projects/events to an external firewire drive. Anyone know how I can do that? Tried simply dragging and dropping them but iMovie creates another projects folder in my Movies folder. Any ideas? Thanks.

Graham Samuel1 wrote:
... I hope that iMovie 7.2 has the feature built in, as it's such an obvious requirement...
doubt that, 'cause maybe 'obvious', but for sure.. 'dangerous' ...
the Project Files aren't that large, the Event Folders contain all the raw-data.. and iM08 supports ext. storage for those ..
Project Files are more.. hm.. 'sensitive' data.. so, all automatisms (of forthcoming OS's...) for backing up such important files will first look into the local and 'main' Folders... to spread all kind of data on all kind of drives is 'nice' on PCs (C:, D:, E:, F:, ...), but a 'main' and solid database (=drive), plus just a single-click-backup is a more... convenient way...
don't forget: iM is part of iLife.. it's no single-app.. it 'talks' to others... in the background of those apps there's some marvel going on to make all files, all datas, all formats as easy as accessible as it is in iLife..

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The long motivated version (skip if you don't care):
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In Projects view with the Inspector showing the Library tab, select (Command+click) the Projects you want to move. Double-click one of the selected Projects. You are switched to Browser view with all of the photos in all of the selected Projects displayed, +and those Projects are now selected in the Library tab of the Inspector+. You can now click and drag the selected Projects and drop them wherever you want. (You might even be able to create a new Folder and put the selected Projects into it -- I don't remember testing that.) In essence you are selecting Projects using the Projects view, and moving Projects using the Library tab of the Inspector.

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Kirby, this is very helpful.
Glad to help.
I was not previously aware of the Projects Info tab, so this is a great first step. I just upgraded to A3, may have been there in A2 but I didn't discover it.
According to the Apple "What's new" page, this is, indeed, new to Ap3. I never used a previous version.
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