When I allow thumbnails to be generated, it can't find two (probably deleted awhile back) and now gets hung up and I have to force quit.  What should I do?

Using latest version of iMovie.  Have two external harddrives for my movies.  Decided to finally allow "generate thumbnails" run.  While running, it says it can't find a couple clips and gets hung up - have to force quit.  What can I do?.  Also, anyway to speed things up?  Loading takes forever.  Thanks for any help! 

To answer the post title FireFox save all downloads automatically in the download folder, which you can find in the Documents folder. If you want to choose where to save your downloads go to tools>options>check always ask me where to save files.
Secondly, I am assuming you have IE 8 installed as this is the only version that supports this fix that is currently not in beta. Go to control panel>internet options>advanced tab and reset the settings at the bottom. This may or may not fix the problem but it is a good first step.

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