Using mounted drives for storage

iMovie 08 only allows for saving on internal drives, or connected FireWire drives. Well, I have 2 TB of storage on an old Mac connected over Gigabit Ethernet, and I intend to use it. Here is the solution:
1. Move your iMovie Events onto your choice of mounted drive
2. Delete the iMovie Events folder, located in your Movies folder
3. Use Coctail or the Terminal to create a symbolic link of the moved iMovie Events folder (on your external drive) and place that link back in your home Movies folder
4. Start up iMovie again, and you will see that all is well
Using regular Alias did not work for me. I got the thumbnails, though with a warning triangle, but not the source to play.

no, I use FAT32 so I can use it on both Macs and PCs
Note that the Mac doesn't require using the same disk format on both "disks" of a partitioned drive. You could use Disk Utility to partition the drive and format each partition whatever you choose.
Partitioning/Reformatting will erase everything on the drive, so make backups.
Not sure how your PC will respond to the presence of the Mac partition, however. (No experience.) You may want to do some testing.
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