Whole computer back in time?

I moved around a bunch of files and screwed up iMovie file paths and even after restoring what files I thought I needed to it is still messed up... Now in iMovie it shows the clips thumbnails and transitions like it did before but they don't play and there is a yellow triangle with an exclamation it it?
How do I just take the whole thing back a few hours to when it was working fine?

You don't need to restore the entire computer, just delete the folders that you moved around and go back into time with time machine and restore the entire folder that you moved around. That should be quick and easy (depending on how large the project was)

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