Current Guidance on Changing iMovie Storage Locations

[Dan in VA]

I want to store the iMovie Projects and iMovie Events to an external drive (thunderbolt, formatted HFS+ Journaled), and set that drive to be the default storage location for future projects and events. I know those directories need to be sitting in the root of the external drive.

Is there easy to follow guidance that doesn't involve trying to fake out OSX with symlinks?

 

[Weaselboy]

I don't see any way to change the default storage location in iMovie.

I know you did not want to mess with Terminal, but I really think that is your best solution, and it it pretty easy.

Just follow this substituting your external drive name for RAID in this example.

 

[talmy]

Is there easy to follow guidance that doesn't involve trying to fake out OSX with symlinks?

You aren't "faking out" OS X -- it's a feature of the OS for which this is an intended use. But you don't want to use symlinks (UNIX symbolic links) but instead aliases which are a lot smarter and available in Finder (symbolic links must be made from the command line).