[kennedy]

I was working on an iMovie... iMovie HD crashed.
When I bring it back up, all my clips are in the trash.
Okay, so how do I get my clips OUT of the trash?

Drag n drop from the Show Trash window to the Clips pane doesn't work.
There is no right-click menu on the clips in the Show Trash window.
The only buttons in the Show Trash window are about making the deletes permanent.
There is no undo option.
There is no menu command I can find to restore the clips from the trash.

iMovie Help does not give any clues how you restore something from the trash.

As best I can tell, the staged trash in iMovie is just a big tease. They are permanently useless, but you can look and see what you've lost.

What happened to Mac easy-to-use interfaces? Ugh.

Any help greatly appreciated,

Brian

[analogika]

Drag and drop works fine here.

[kennedy]

Okay...

So has anybody beside me had drag n drop from the trash NOT work?

Is there any other way to invoke the functionality other than drag n drop?

[dogman]

You cannot get something out of the trash can in iMovie4. You can restore the source clip provided there is a reference to the clip in the form of a sub-clip either in the timeline or the clip pane. If there is no such sub-clip anywhere then iMovie decides you don't need the source Clip file at all and will delete it from the Media files folder the next time you save your timeline. This is infuriating but the way it seems to be. You can however lock the Clip files in the Media files folder (select all the Clip files, get info, check the lock box). At this point if iMovie attempts to clean up after itself you will at least get a prompt that it is trying to delete locked files and you can say No (cancel).