New iMovie w/Mavericks: No Projects or Events

Installed Mavericks and the subsequent iMovie update.
Bad news: my iMovie events and projects do not appear in the new version of iMovie
Good news: The old version of iMovie is still present and works fine.
Any idea how to get the events and projects into the new version?
"File>Update Projects and Events" does not work; result is "iMovie could not find any projects or events to update".

All: are you just looking for files from within iMovie? Where are your iMovie Event/Project folders in the Finder? (default user/Movies/iMovie...)
Did you do a Finder search for iMovie? Go to Finder/Find (not Spotlight) and search for Name>Contains>iMovie. Then click ONCE on a file that you couldn't find. At the bottom of the search window you will find the path (username>Movies>iMovie Events>youreventname> etc. etc.)
There's probably something that needs to be relinked to the new version of iMovie. I doubt that any files have been deleted; if they have, they will be in the Trash.

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Did you set up your new computer by creating a Time Machine backup and restoring from it?
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iMovie Help: Work with multiple libraries
http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
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