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irshat289 Author

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Help me find unexported imovie project

Hi. I have MacBook, OS 10.10.5.

My iMovie crashed a second time, and I lost a project I was trying to rebuild after the first crash, about 10 hours of work. For some reason, the unexported project is not saved anywhere. I searched everywhere on the macbook with my project name. I don't use any external drives. When I open the Library, it only shows individual clips that I had imported, but it doesn't show the movie I've edited so long.

Please help. It's frustrating.

MacBook

Posted on Jul 8, 2019 12:34 PM

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Rich839

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Posted on Jul 8, 2019 2:41 PM

You don't need to manually save because iMovie 10 will do that automatically.

You might be able to retrieve your project from the iMovie Backups folder on your Mac. iMovie automatically backs up your library. To get there, follow this file path from the Finder menu:

Go/Home/Library/Containers/com.apple.iMovieApp/Data/Library/Caches/iMovieBackups

When you get there you will see a list of previous backups of your iMovie library. Click on one dated just before the crash. iMovie will open in that library. Navigate to your Projects browser view (where your projects are displayed as icons). Open the project that you lost. It should be intact as of the last backup.

Next thing you need to do is to get to the bottom of why iMovie keeps crashing. But for now let's just get your project back.

-- Rich

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