How to recover deleted iMovie project

Hi,

Click on Go/Home from the Finder menu. At the top of the Home screen, click on the little gear icon. A pop up menu will come up. Click on Show View Options.

When you click on Show View Options another pop up menu will come up. Check the box next to Show Library Folder at the very bottom of the menu and click the button that says Use as Defaults.

Now when you click on Go/Home you will see the Library folder listed. Click on Library and continue to follow the file path to the iMovie Backups folder.

If your operating system is before Catalina, follow this file path from the Finder menu:

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

If running Ventura or later, in the above file path substitute iMovie for com.apple.iMovieApp.  So, for Ventura (and I think, Catalina), the file path would read:

 Go/Home/Library/Containers/iMovie/Data/Library/Caches/iMovieBackups

If one file path doesn't work, try the other.

When you get to the iMovie backups folder you will see a list of previous backups of your iMovie library. 

Click on one dated just before your project was deleted.  iMovie will open in that library.   Navigate to your projects browser (where your projects are displayed as icons) and see if your deleted project is there.

-- Rich