Problem opening projects iMovie 13

I just updated to Yosemite and decided to update to iMovie 13 from 11 as well ... big mistake.
Because of the large size of my iMovie projects I kept them on my external hd, this used to work perfectly, whenever I had my external HD connected it would show all the projects in iMovie and I could play/edit them as I pleased. Now after the update the projects no longer show, and although they are still on the external HD, they only show as iMovie Events, not projects, which means I would need to import them all back and edit the whole movie from scratch. Needless to say I'm extremely frustrated by this, and I hope one of you can help me to get things back to the way they were.
Thank you in advance.
Daniel

Update: Just found out Apple keeps a copy of iMovie 11 on it even after upgrading, so I'm still able to edit and play all my films .. thank god.
Still would be nice to know how to get these projects into 13, or is this impossible?

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(when prompted to save the project's changes when
quitting, I said NO, don't save changes).
Excellent! That should leave you in pretty good shape. More below.
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10.4.7.)
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<dict>
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eBay?
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