Spinning ball on imovie,what to do to complete project

working on project in imovie,but spinning ball appeared and can no longer get imovie to respond

If you're sure that the item in the recovered folder are either duplicates or things you deleted in the past and you no longer need any of it you can delete it.
The existences of the recovered folder indicates that Aperture has in the past not closed properly. Either due to crashes or force quits. Basically what's in there is stuff that was left over and that Aperture was not able to link to.  Usually as in your case it more an indication of Aperture being over cautious in deleting things. The philosophy being better to keep it and let the user decide rather then deleting it.
To prevent this in the future make sure that Aperture closes normally. Also while it's not an official recommendation I like to run a library repair periodically on my libraries. Seems to help keep things running smoothly.

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    What is going on? I thought TextEdit was the most stable, most reliable application in all of Apple-dom. And I've been using it for years and years, but this problem has only recently started in the past couple months. I have no memory of making any changes to my computer that could have precipitated the change. Also: are these two problems related to each other?
    I really don't know what to do. Any suggestions for fixing this problem would be appreciated. (And no, I don't have the original 10.4 install disks, so I can't re-install TextEdit, unless it can be downloaded somewhere). Thanks.

    OK, Carolyn, I wrote down all my prefs (glad I did), trashed the prefs file, restarted, relaunched TextEdit, reset all my preferences to my liking (which had reverted to default settings), quit TextEdit. Then I tried double-clicking some text files -- and the same problem (#2 above) persists. None of my TextEdit or text files have TextEdit as the default launch application -- they're still all either "None" or "ams1108.html". And, as before, if I try to change it to "TextEdit" in the file's info box, then click on "change all," it does not work: not only does it not change all the text files to be TextEdit, but clicking "change all" will cause the file in question to revert to "None" or "ams1108.html". However, if I only change the default app for that one file to TextEdit, and don't click "change all," then it will stick -- for now at least. (Though I wouldn't be surprised if after a restart they all changed back to "None.")
    The short assessment is: trashing the prefs did NOT fix problem #2 above. It may or may not have fixed problem #1 -- hard to tell immediately, since the only way to find out is the use TextEdit for two days.
    So, setting aside problem #1 for now: any suggestions for fixing problem #2 (default app can't be changed to TextEdit by clicking "change all")? I have thousands and thousands of TextEdit files I use, so changing them all manually one-by-one isn't feasible. Thanks.

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