Projects will not open from external drive

I have been creating and saving my projects to an external drive for sometime now. When I tried to open it recently, it recognizes the Lacie but it will not recognize the projects. When you look on the Lacie it's self all of the files are there but when clicked on they still will not open.
Please help I don't know what to do...

Stanberry_mac wrote:
Yes, I did select the external drive when I created the new projects and they were working up until yesterday.
.. and on 'top level' of drive, there's a 'iMovie-Projects' folder containing your project?
excluding some Voodoo: your project's name does NOT contain 'bad' characters as ; : / | \ . … ?

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