The Project File Is Missing

After completing my video, I saved it and turned off the computer. I came back later and upon opening the video got an error message that read "The Project File is Missing or Invalid." These warnings popped up for all of the transitions that are in my video. Where did they go?

Sometimes permissions and preferences can get corrupted. Whenever iMovie starts acting funny, a common maintenance procedure is to do the following: Delete preferences by closing iMovie and trashing the file com.apple.iMovie.plist found in User (the House icon)/Library/Preferences. Then do a permissions repair using the Utilities/Disk Utility App on your Mac. Open the Disk Utilities window and select the Mac hard drive icon at the top of the side pane at the left. Then click on the Repair Permissions button. When you have repaired permissions and deleted preferences, restart your computer and launch iMovie. iMovie will replace the .plist file that you deleted. Be sure also that you have sufficient free disk space on your hard drive for iMovie to function correctly. 25GB often is recommended by users of this forum. After doing all of the above, relaunch iMovie and see whether you still have the problem.

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Thanks for the info. I do have the Aperture 2 disc so I'll re-install and repair library then give it a go again. It will probably take a few days as I have a HUGE library. I'll let you know the outcome when it completes! Thanks again for the help.
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Hello Folks:
   Developing on Win 8.1 Pro, Visual Studio 2010 Pro, C++.
   I'm revisiting a project I haven't touched in over 2 years.
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      The project file ' ' has been renamed or is no longer in the solution.
   And the build terminates.
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1. Reload each project in the solution (Right-click/Unload Project; Right-click/Reload project). See if any of them has an issue reloading.
2. If you have multiple projects in the solution: Make a copy of the solution and load the copy. Go in Build Dependencies and uncheck all. Now build each project individually and see which one has the problem. (Some of them might not link
due to missing libraries, but that's OK. You just want to see that the build starts). Double-check which configuration Visual Studio picks when it builds each project; if they are not all the same, the problem is with the project configurations.
3. Load the solution file with the XML editor. (Make sure no other Visual Studio instance has the solution open when you do this). Check each Project line for oddities, specifically, empty or mangled names, or missing project files. Also
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Another Project File is Missing error

To make a long story short... after importing video clips into iMovie and then pulling the .dv files out of the project file and reimporting the files into another movie, now when I try to open the movie, I get the error "A Project File is Missing" and the ignore/ignore all error alerts. When the movie finally opens, the clips are missing, but they are in the trash.
I can pull them out of the trash and work on them, but the edits don't save. If I try to resave the project, then close and re-open it, I still get the errors. I'm using iMovie HD v.5. I am running OS 10.4.9 from an external firewire drive formatted HFS Extended (Journaled). When I start, there's about 57 GB of free space on the drive. After importing the files (one 9.5 and one 8.1 GB in size ), there's 39.9 GB of free space on the drive. There are two files in the Media folder... copies of the original dv files.
What can I do to save the project, so the files are considered part of the project?

Hi Chad - I'm sure you will be helped also by the real experts on this forum, but in the meantime you should be aware that iMovie cannot import MPEG files. You will note that the Error Message is saying there is an unarchiving problem. They must first be converted to DV format. You may need a free app. called StreamClip for this operation:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
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I was working on a project a few days ago and now I'm not getting any audio or visuals out of it. In the project file the screen went grey. Not sure how to fix this. I'm new to iMovie, but the program seems easy to use and my Mac is new. Any help?

I used to use Movie Maker and it would be able to handle lots of file uploads and big projects. I figure iMovie can do the same since it's newer and it's on my iMac. I was working on a project for a few months, it was working fine up until about a few days ago when the project file just stopped working. Not getting any audio or visuals and the screen went grey. I hope to not lose the project file as I've spent a lot of time on it. The project will still show up in iMovie, but it won't play. Other project files will, but this one won't for some reason. It's my first time using this program and I assumed it would be fine, but now it's causing me big problems. Anyone else run into a similar problem?

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Upon finishing a project, I was ready to do a Share > Export Movie command, and opted first to do a restart on my computer (by first doing a File > Quit in iMovie).
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I was working on a project but I ran out of disk space before I could finish it. Now, for this very purpose, I have an external hard drive with plenty of space on it. So I tried moving the folder with all my project files onto the external hd, and now iMovie can't find my project anymore. With iMovie '06 it was as simple as hitting "save as" and saving the project to the external hd, but I guess that's not complicated enough for the new version. Now I can't get into my project. I even try clicking on the actual project file, and it goes to iMovie as if the project was about to open, but nothing happens. So I fear I wasted a lot of time working on that project only to have to start all over because I ran out of disk space.
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enoughsaid3 wrote:
... my external disk isn't formatted as Mac OS extended (journaled). I don't know how to do this,...
that is a simple one and should be a routine after purchasing a new drive (in a Mac-only environment!):
• on your Mac, Apps/Utilities you'll find Disk 'Utility'
• on the left lane, you'll notice your connected hard drive(s)
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• NOTE: FORMATTING A DRIVE MEANS ERASING ALL CONTENT ON THAT DRIVE!
that's why you should do it as step#1 after purchasing a new drive
done ...-

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