How to recover a deleted iMovie file

Hi,

When you say you deleted an "iMovie file" I take it that you mean that you deleted an iMovie project. Is that correct?

Try looking in the iMovie Backups folder to see if you can find a previously saved iMovie app from which to recover your project.

To get to the iMovie Backups folder, follow this file path from the Finder menu:

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

 NOTE:  If running Ventura or later, in the above

file path substitute iMovie for com.apple.iMovieApp.  So, for Ventura

or later, the file path would read:

 Go/Home/Library/Containers/iMovie/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 your issue started.  iMovie will open in that library.   Navigate to your projects browser (where your projects are displayed as icons) and see if your projects are intact.

Another way would be to recover an earlier saved version of your iMovie app from a Time Machine backup, if you keep one.

-- Rich