Update to iMovie 10.1 - my events have disappeared

Have upgraded to 10.0.2 but my iMovie library and all events seem to have disappeared.

I'd really appreciate any input, you might have on this problem, I have experience.

December 15, 2015

After emptying Imovie 9 of all movie files I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade to iMovie 10.1, of a 'clean slate '. So I did. Everything seems to work well once the new version has been installed, and so I decided to import all files from my film camera to iMovie. So I did, and everything seemed to work fine, nothing unusual. I've been a little more careful as I have experienced the events disappeared before iMovie - without explanation - so I made double and triple to check that all movie files were in the library "events".

January 1, 2016

I opened iMovie, and no event is visible. Heeeeelp! Those are movies from the first year of my life child´s. He scares med to think that they are now all lost!

When I look in the Finder, I see that the size of library iMovie is 16,32 GB, so it seems as if it does not contain some great (I'm thinking film) files, but I can't. In the iMovieevents and iMovieprojects folders there is a file called "UpdatedtoiMovie10".

I have searched for help in this forum and other forums as well mac online - but am still no idea of what I can do to find the files apparently lost. This thread is about a similar problem, but did not help unfortunately me https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5885885?searchText=events%20disappear

I'm really looking forward to any input/help/ideas about this, thank you very much!

Lisa

"having emptied Imovie 9 of all movie files.

"In the iMovieevents and iMovieprojects files there is a file called"UpdatedtoiMovie10".

I gather you have deleted only the clips but not project and event records.  Is this the case?

When you open iMovie 10 it will have asked you if you wanted to update the events and projects of iMovie 9.  You must have accepted as the 'UpdatedtoiMovie10' files are used a flags that is only added after update successfully to prevent the update more than once.  This would have created a set of events and projects in iMovie 10 but with no clips.

To see what is in your iMovie library made a right click on it and select "show the contents of the package.  You should see folders whose names of each event and within must be records called "original media.  This is where your clips must be.

You may have created inadvertently two libraries and looking now than bad.

Don't know if I'm on the right track.

Geoff.

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