"Unabe to delete rejected clips"?

...tried "moving rejected clips to trash...
...got Error message...
"Unabe to delete rejected clips:
The operation could not be completed.Error writing file: /Users/donrex/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/Family 56/iMovie Thumbnails/clip-135-02-05 05;27;15-1"
I now have 2 Event Libraries with problems.
On one, the Project Library shows a triangle symbol with a exclamation sign, and, won't show clips in the Preview screen. On another, much of the Event now has grayed clips.
I also experienced the unplanned deletion of some clips, and, some clips being combined with another clip.
Any help?
Don

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

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When i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

when i try to delete rejected clips nothing happens

See this iMovie Help topic on how to delete rejected clips:
Delete unwanted video clips from an Event -
http://help.apple.com/imovie/#mov3ac6a93f
John

Unable to delete rejected clips

When I click on "Move Rejected to Trash" it says "Unable to delete rejected clips." The clips are not from any event, as they are clips from iPhoto Videos. I've searched around the Discussions but couldn't find an answer. Anyone have any insight?
Thanks!

iMovie will only delete clips that it "owns". To delete iPhoto clips, you must delete them in iPhoto. I don't know any way to delete partial clips in iPhoto.
You could export the clips from iPhoto and convert them to an iMovie compatible format using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Then import into iMovie. Then you can reject clips and delete them.

Error message when trying to delete rejected clips

When I try to delete the rejected clips in some projects (from the event panel) I get the following error message:
"The operation could not be completed. Error writing file: /Users/lee/Movies/iMovie Events.localized/imovie-001/04dx 01-1.mov"
This only occurs with certain imported movie clips. Other imported clips work as expected when I move the rejected portions to the trash.
Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Having difficulties deleting rejected clips.

If I press 'Move Rejected to Trash', half the time nothing will happen at all.
If I'm lucky (whatever type of luck you'd consider this), it will go through what looks like the process in which the clips get moved to the Trash bin (you know, it says they upload into the Trash bin, when they don't).
How can I fix this?
Also, is there a way to move individual clips into the Trash bin?

I just posted pretty much the same thing elsewhere on the Apple Boards and got no replies. Rather than start a new thread, I decided to just tack on and paste what I posted on the other forum. This appears to be a fairly common problem. Yet, no one seems to have an answer, and Apple either isn't aware of it or just hasn't fixed it (I can't believe it's the latter).
Anyway, here's what I posted:
To be brief -- I am unable to move rejected clips to the trash with iMovie 08. I am 99% sure I'm doing everything correctly. The option to do so is dimmed, and clicking on the Move Rejected To Trash button does nothing.
I saw several posts about this problem from a couple of years ago, but no one offered a solution. I haven't seen this issue discussed since 2008, which I don't understand. The problem was never solved in any of the threads I read. It appears to be a bug in the software. Does anyone know if there's a work-around for this? Has this problem been fixed with iMovie 09?
I just find it hard to believe that a bug of this magnitude would go uncorrected by Apple. I could save a lot of disk space if this would work as it's supposed to.
Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions.

Deleting Rejected Clip Deletes Entire Library

Hello,
I rejected parts of clips in FCP X and changed the view to "show Rejected" and selected then and hit command+d to move them to the trash. The only problem is that when I switched the view to "show all" everything was gone. I tested it again by selecting just a small clip from the event and pressing command+d. It deleted the entire event again. Do you know what is going wrong?
Also, the first time I opened FCP X, my Western Digital Passport external hard drive showed up in the Event Library and I was able to save an event there. The next time I opened FCP X up, the hard drive was gone from the list and my whole project was red and disconnected. I opened iMovie and the events I had on my Passport showed up and were working fine. Is there just a setting I need to change? I have the hd formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Thanks for the help!
Dan

which brings me to propose a (very annoying, yet usable) workaround ...
- from iTunes you want to rename an album (that would cause the old folder to be removed, and accidentally cause more unwanted deletions)
- go into Finder, and in the folder to be renamed, add a dummy file (like, duplicating one of the songs);
- go into iTunes, and perform the renaming operation
- the dummy file is not visible in iTunes, hence it will not be deleted;
- because of the additional dummy file, the directory will not be empty, and therefore will not be deleted;
- go again into Finder, and manually delete the now useless folder with dummy file as the only remaining file;

IMovie 08 - Deleting rejected clips in Event

I've rejected some movie clips in iMovie 08 (red bar shown), but when I click the button to move these to the trash, no action occurs. Any suggestions? -Don

i get spinning wheel that does not stop....not even after hours. I manually shut down, and it deletes the entire project. I cant find a good solution anywhere to this.

Move rejected clips to trash?

I have really large clip sizes, from 1-10 minutes long, that are taking up massive amounts of space on my hd, but I only need 10-20 seconds of each clip. The vast majority of my material ends up getting Rejected.
I have read that there is an option to Move Rejected Files to Trash, which will delete the unwanted material but preserve the other stuff. I cannot seem to find this option: it does not appear in the Browser when viewing rejected files. I read that I can go to File>Move Rejected Clips to Trash, however this option does not appear in my File menu.
What am I doing wrong? Is this ability no longer enabled? I am on a MacBook Pro using the 2013 iMovie that shipped with my laptop. Thanks for any help.

Hey crazyshannon,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like youwant to delete rejected clips. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
iMovie '11: Delete unwanted video clips from an Event
To delete video clips permanently from your Event Library:
In the Event Library, click to select the Event you want to delete video from.
In the Event browser, select the frames or clips you want to remove from the Event, and then press Delete or click the Reject button (shown below) in the iMovie toolbar.
(The Reject button also has a small “x” if you have Advanced Tools turned on.)
If you’ve chosen All Clips from the Show pop-up menu (shown below), which appears below the Event browser, a red line appears across the top of the rejected frames.
If you’ve chosen Favorites Only or “Favorites and Unmarked,” the rejected clips disappear from view.
Choose File > “Move Rejected Clips to Trash.”
All the clips that are currently marked as “rejected” in any Event or project are queued to move to the Trash. This includes clips you may have marked previously, not only those you just rejected.
In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:
If you’re confident you know which clips you’ve previously rejected and you want to delete all of them, click “Move to Trash.”
The video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
If you want to review the clips that you’ve marked for deletion, click View Rejected Clips.
The Event browser shows just the rejected clips in the selected Event. Select any clips that you don’t want to delete, and then click the Unmark button.
To delete the rejected clips, click the “Move Rejected to Trash” button (A, below) in the upper-right corner of the Rejected Clips window.
Click the “Move to Trash” button in the dialog that appears; the video is removed from your Events, but it still occupies space in the Trash.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

Can't delete events, or rejected clips, and now hangs on startup

I am using, as far as I know, the latest version 7.1.1. I first started having problems when I couldn't delete a couple of events. I them selected some clips to be rejected, and it marked them appropriately with the red bar. However, it will not allow me to delete these rejected clips. Now the problems are getting worse and I cannot even get '08 to start with hanging up and then I must force it to quit.
I should mention that I between having all these issues I have installed iMovie HD and been using that but for ENTIRELY different clips etc. I have not been sharing things back and forth. HD seems to be working as it should.
I am new to Mac', about 3 months now, and have been using iMovie'08 for a few weeks and found it to be very good. I started to have some problems and found the whole debate about iMovie '08 compared to iMovie HD. All that aside, although I can see how HD has better features than '08, can someone point me in the right direction to get things up and running again.
Thanks very much.

Sorry, I should have added this error message that I get when trying to move the rejected clips to the trash:
The operation could not be completed. * -[NSPlaceholderMutableDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:]: number of objects (0) not equal to number of keys (4)
Perhaps this will help someone with nailing down what the issue is.
Thanks again.

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

Hallo!! how can i delete a rejected clip in iMovie 10.0.7?? Or is it not possible??

You can delete a complete clip which is not in use in any project by right-clicking it and choosing "move to trash". It won't actually appear in the trash can but will be permanently deleted when you quit iMovie.
Geoff.

Trouble deleting only rejected clips after imovie update

When i send rejected clips to the trash, it pulls more of the original video with it. How can i keep this from happening? Only started with the new Mavericks update.

I've seen one suggestion relating to Revealing the Clip in the Finder. Try this:
Go to the Reject Clips by clicking on the pulldown menu at the bottom where it says Show: (choose Rejected Clips Only). Then <CTRL> click on on of the red striped thumbnails choose Reveal in Finder. When the Finder window launches, your clip will be highlighted. Select it and drag it to the trash.
Quit iMovie, then relaunch it and go back to the Show: (Rejected Clips Only) see if that clip is now missing from the list of Rejected Clips. If this works and your Project file still plays back successfully I would say it's safe to continue deleting as needed. But if you have some problems and the Project has been affected there might be another reason you cannot delete the clips.
iPhoto Videos are not deletable in the traditional iMovie Rejected Clips kind of way. They are under full control and jurisdiciton of iPhoto. And as a result, iMovie is not allowed to do anything other than 'copy' or re-use them in a Project. Deletion of iPhoto Videos in iMovie will not work. So your only real option is to try deleting them from iPhoto instead. So just be aware of where your video clips are located in the iMovie Event Library and everything should be OK.

IMovie 10 - how to delete rejected portions of a clip

I have read all the discussions and connot figure this out. I can view rejected clips, but have no way to delete them or put them in Trash. If I select Move to Trash it trashes the whole clip. Thanks for any help.

Hi
I wanted to delete the "rejected" portions of a clip. I made iMovie show only teh rejected clips and deleted them all. I realized now that iMovie deleted the whole clip that included portions that were marked as favorites, unmarked, not just the rejected. Luckily I do have the original files elsewhere but I threw away a couple of hours of work.
If i have a long clip and I want to get rid of "bad" / "useless" sections of what is marked rejected there should be an easy way in iMovie. Is tehre?
if I split a clip does the original file gets split or not? Is tehre a quick way to do that without a too much cumbersome workaround?
thanks
stefano

Deleted/rejecterd clips not showing up in trash

Ok now I understand that iMovie trash in acutally finder trash. But I do not see the clips I have been deleting in there. they are gone from the events display screen in imovie but they are not in trash. Also the space is not decreasing on HD. Does anyone have an idea of where these deleted clips are going? It is certainly not the trash can at this point. Thanks

Ok now I understand that iMovie trash in acutally finder trash. But I do not see the clips I have been deleting in there. they are gone from the events display screen in imovie but they are not in trash. Also the space is not decreasing on HD. Does anyone have an idea of where these deleted clips are going? It is certainly not the trash can at this point.
If you open the the associated Events Folder (where the files are physically stored on your HD) and the Trash Can folder in the Finder and then select the "Move Rejected Clips to Trash" iMovie menu option, you can watch iMovie re-write the data files followed by the clip files disappearing from the Finder and paired "Temporary" folders appear in the Trash Can folder. If you then open the "Temporary" folders in the Trash Can folder, you will find the actual clip files, the associated thumbnails, etc. Therefore, if you don't see any files in your trash can, you must have emptied the trash can at some point or possibly looked in it before iMovie had finished re-writing the data and moved the resulting files -- a process which can take some time to do.
ADDED: Oops! Looks like you figured it out while I was writing....
Message was edited by: Jon Walker

Can't get rid of rejected clips in iMovie 11.

I've read other posts relating to this issue - some dating back to iMovie 08 - and tried everything suggested but so far nothing works for me.
I am running very low on space but can't seem to delete events or rejected clips. I've tried just deleting very short clips but even that doesn't work. all I get is a bar quickly coming up as if to show progress in deleting the clips but it disappears very quickly and nothing has been deleted.
Seems strange that the same problem can be an issue in that many versions of iMovie.
Please help, anyone.
Thanks

Try moving your mouse to the upper third of the screen.

Why don't my iMovie rejected clips show up?

Here's the story, I tried to import a 5.5 gb video into iMovie over night. The next morning, it didn't show up in the clips section. I figured something wen't wrong with the import, so I re-imported it over the day. When it didn't show up again, I was really confused. I then imported them into Final Cut (the only reason I didn't import the file to Final Cut first is because my computer doesn't run it that well) and edited the file to my liking.
Now that all my files were edited, I deleted the event in iMovie that I saved the files to the first two times, thinking I deleted the clips as well. However, when I went to look at my hard drive space and I noticed it went from 200 gb of free space to 80 gb of free space, and there was a significant increase in my 'backups' and 'other' catagories. All of this in a matter of about a day.
After searching around the web, I found that my files didn't show up because they were rejected by iMovie, so naturally I went back into iMovie and looked at the rejected clips. No clips showed up. I tried to find them in finder with little luck. I don't know what to do, my computer doesn't run well with less than 100 gb of space left.
Where are my rejected clips? I'm relatively new to the mac world, and I don't really venture into the inner file systems.

Hey dayspringmedia,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you want an external hard drive to show up on the desktop. It may be a preference that needs to be checked. Does this only happen with NTFS drives? I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
OS X Mavericks: Finder preferences
click the Finder icon in the Dock, then choose Finder > Preferences.
Besides the options described here, there are more ways to customize Finder windows. For information, see:
Customize Finder windows
Deselect items you don’t want to see on the desktop. You will still see them in Finder windows.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
Mario

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