 I'm going to take you through a problem that I've had in iMovie and I've only just worked out how to fix it so I've got iMovie open these are all my projects here and these ones I just can't delete them so if I click on day 30 the way to delete the day 30 project look if I open it it's all in there if I go back to projects go down to day 30 if you hover your mouse next to the title you see the three dots you click on that and it brings up a little menu for you and when you go down to delete project it asks are you sure you want to delete this project all media files in this project will be copied into your library in an event named day 30 that's great so I click continue and then you get this error message which is the file name couldn't be moved to the trash because you don't have permission to access it now all of my files I've shot myself these files just happen to be from a dash cam camera in our car I couldn't work out how to get to the file to delete it so that I could delete the project and free up the memory space and my iMovie started taking out like 60 gigabytes of just storage that I couldn't budge I've just worked out how to do it so if you've had the same problem as me here's how you clear it oh hello I'm Neil by the way I'm in the garden today I don't know why it's the hottest day of the year and probably the worst place to be doing this I couldn't be indoors here's how you can find the file that refuses to be deleted so that you can free the project up and delete the project and delete the event I forget the whole thing ever happened if you go to the desktop click on the macintosh hd so we're in finder and I've got four choices you go for this the way I did it click on users and open that up and you'll see among all the folders there applications desktop documents there's one labeled movies if you open that up by clicking on the triangle you've got the iMovie library and the iMovie theatre now the problem with this is if you double click on iMovie library it brings up iMovie we don't want that so let's go back to the finder what you want to do is on iMovie library right click on it it brings up this menu and we want to go down to show package contents so that it's going to show what's there instead of actually opening it up and look the folder that I want to delete the project I want to delete is called day 30 so if I find day 30 there it is among all the projects that it's remembered some of my greatest hits now available on youtube and if you click on the triangle of day 30 it will bring up some more folders analysis files the name of the project again but there's also this folder here called original media so if you click on the triangle there it actually opens up the folder that has all of the copies of the files that you actually want to delete iMovie takes its own copy it can as you can see from the size of the files there it can take up a lot of memory what we want to do now right click on the file that you can't delete so I know all my dash cam videos are here right click on it and then go down to get info there it is it's locked there's a little checkbox a little tick next to the word locked and what we want to do obviously is unlock it so untick that box or close it and I'm going to have to now do that for every single one of these files get info locked it's a good way to show you how to do this there we go so I've gone through all of the files that are likely to have this locked problem now just to show you that it works if you go back to iMovie so we go back to day 30 if I click on the three dots again and then hover over delete projects are you sure you want to delete this project yes continue it's gone yes we win the way to now free up the memory do it the usual way click on media and you can see now there's a new folder underneath iMovie library on the left hand side here and there's day 30 so click on that now if I right click on day 30 I can go down to delete events are you sure you want to delete the selected events continue boom it's gone and that has now freed up that memory those gigabytes for you to use for something else