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Hi all,
I just upgraded to iMovie 2013 and had to force quit during the process of migrating my content from iMovie 2011 to 2013. I am supposed to be able to use the Update Projects and Events command to search for old projects events and import them, but it is unable to find any old projects or events. Instead I have an empty iMoview library, even though i have folders full of events and projects in my User/Movies folder. I have tried re-installing iMovie 2013 three times, but it always loads the same library and even if I delete the library it will re-create the same empty library. Each time I deleted any file in the ~/Library I could find which seemed ot belong to iMovie.
How can I get it to import my old projects and events? I think I am unaware of the pref Library files I need to remove to fully reset it?
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Greg

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