No project window appearingve tried trashing preferenc

I got a spinning beach ball before I had saved a project and had to do a force quit. Now no project windows will appear, so I can't open movies or import a new project (I can create one, but there is no project window and under window the project is grayed out). I've tried trashing preferences, but that didn't help. Fixed permissions. Still nothing. What else can I try?

Make sure that you have sufficient free disk space on your hard drive. 20GB to 25GB is oft recommended.
If you have any 3rd party plug-ins, or Quicktime plug-ins, move them to a different folder to temporarily disable them.
If the problem persists, you might try performing a disk repair, which you can do with the start up disks that came with your Mac, particularly if you are having trouble with other programs as well as iMovie.

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