"The previous attempt to open this movie failed, do you want to ignore it?" Whether i click yes or no I get the beachball of death.

I have iMovie 9.0.9. The movie it says it has trouble opening I don't even have on the computer. I have tried searching for preference files and deleting them but they are not there. I have tried dragging iMovie projects onto the desktop, but the only one there is a generic "my first iMOvie project.
Macbook Oro is about 3 months old, running OS X 10.8.5 (12F45).
thanks anyone who can help!

To delet the iMovie 9 preference file you fist have to make your library visible. See: http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
This is the first thing to try.  If this does not solve the problem read on:
iMovie 9 tries to open anything that is in folders called iMovie Events and iMovie Projects in your Movies folder and at the root level of any other drive or partition.  
You may have some corrupt file in one of these locations that is causing the problem. 
You can 'hide' iMovie Event and iMovie Project folders from iMovie by enclosing them in another folder so I suggest you do this with all your iMovie folders and check whether iMovie open OK when they are all hidden.  If it does then close iMovie, unhide one set of the Events and Project folders and open imovie again.  Do this wih prograessivly more sets of folders until you find the one with the problem.  You can then try removing specific events and project from that set in order to find the problem file.
Geoff.

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