[Nobody]

I have been working on a imovie (2.1.2) project for three months. I was supposed to finish it this tuesday. Instead something went wrong, and now it wont work.
I have no idea why, and it makes me very sad.
Can anybody please help me?
My external harddrive is FAT32 formatted. For some reason a bunch of the first movie clips I imported to this project got a "PC"-icon instead of the correct "DV"-icon.
Now it seems they somehow were damaged.
When I try to launch the project I first get:
"You have 53 files that are not associated to this project. Do you want to throw them away or leave them be?"
I chose "leave them be".
Then I got:
"There are a 137 clips in this project, they will be placed in the clips panel."
And the whole project - many, many man hours - seems to be gone.
As if the file (is that one particular file in imovie?) that tells the other files what to do somehow have been damaged.
Have you heard of any problem like this? Do you have any idea what the problem may be? Is there something to be done, or should I just cancel the soccer team party?
I beg of you, if you know anything about this problem - send me an answer!
Anything you wanna ask, that may clear things up, please ask.
I would do practically anything to get this project working again.

Thank you very much.

[OldToad]

I believe the issue is the formatting of the external. iMovie and the other iApps require Mac OS Extended formatting. You could copy the project folder to your internal HD, then reformat the external with Disk Utility and then copy the folder back to the drive. Repair disk permissions on your internal after copying the project folder to it to reset the access permissions. Then copy back to the reformatted HD. If the files still are not readable, check with the iMovie forum at Apple. There are some extremely knowledgeable helpers there that can delve into it far better than I can.
Hope this has been of some help. Good luck.

[sorriso]

Sorry to hear about your project.
After about four months of running on an average of five hours of sleep, I tried to open up the iMovie project and received an error message: File is unreadable. I think I went into shock for about 5 minutes. After a couple of tries of unsaving and double-clicking, my last hope was to open up the quicktime movie - presto! There was my project - but in one large clip. I just had to save it as a .dv and start a new iMovie project.
Very important point, though,'save as dv' in chunks of about 9 minutes or else iMovie will crash on you (remember that the maximum length of clip is 9:28:something something.
Good luck