iMovie eating memory on iPad
I’m posting this because I found zero information about it and I stumbled upon a solution.
Basically, if you try and export your iMovie after you’ve finished creating it in iMovie on the iPad, it might tell you at the very end (after wasting an hour of your time btw) that there isn’t enough memory to do the export. Dood, how about telling me BEFORE I SPEND ANOTHER HOUR OF MY LIFE WAITING – SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA?!?!? JUST MAYBE.
At any rate, you might find yourself deleting movies, pictures, apps, music – anything to get enough memory to export your project. Then, you try again. then AGAIN it tells you STILL don’t have enough memory. You go back and look and – WTH? all the memory you’d just cleared is now magically gone – but you have nothing to show for it.
Apparently iMovie has created your masterpiece but needs to copy it to the location you specified (the camera roll) – I’m not totally sure if it’s done or not, and it’s making yet another copy for the move? or if it truly ran out of space and can’t continue, but has left a pile of mung behind. Who knows. But the fact remains that it is still taking up precious disk space without any visible way of deleting it, and you have no idea it even exists!
All you have to do is open the project in iMovie, make a simple change – then change it back, and exit back to the projects menu. Now check your memory – it magically has re-appeared. Apparently, making a change causes iMovie to cleanup after itself.
Hope that helps!
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yeah, Apple do a nice work on erasing their track!
I’ve got this problem, too, but dont know how to solve it
Amazing! Brilliant! Luckily I read your post before I hurt myself for being angry! Thank you!!!!
thank you!!! I thought I was going crazy! It worked like a charm :0)
Dude you are much better than superman !
I’ve worked on a project for hours (totaling 65 mins of film) and ran into this problem. I’ve deleted EVERYTHING on my iPad except the movie stuff and what Apple won’t let you remove. I even bought more Cloud storage. I thought my head was going to come off! Thanks for the fix!
thanks man, you just saved my (i)life😉
Dude, I was about to blow a gasket from all the pent up anger bubbling inside me trying to delete this ghost file. I read your post and it was like the much needed release valve. So glad I found it before I screwed my project up. Thanks a million!
Lifesaver! Thank you!
Brilliant – It’s not like that info is anywhere on the Apple Forums or application help. Thanks, greatly reduced my anxiety.
Hi. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but this did not work for me. Any further tips or clarification?
Only that you just need to go back into the project, make a simple change (like text or nudge some image left, then save, then back). That little change will cause iMovie to delete the hidden version of the file that’s taking up your memory
I didn’t believe it would work. I had tried everything before finding your post. I’m a believer now! Thank you!
Thank you so much. If you only knew how this post saved my sanity; much appreciated!!!
Thank you, it worked!
thank you
It worked for me….Thank you so much and you saved my sanity!
I just ran into this problem and you hack works thank you! it’s crazy that apple still didn’t fix this problem after 4 years. iMovie must be some bad apple🙂
YOU ARE SUCH A STAR!! I’ve been a whole day wondering how on earth I was going to get a video out of and off the ipad!! Getting a bit sick of apple, having to fork out extra money because of lack of compatibility, lack of space on clouds etc. Apps that don’t work if you upgrade etc. Really getting bored of it all.
eternally grateful hahah
I actually think i love you!! have been climbing the walls all day with this problem, exactly as you said…thanks so much for posting!!
You literally saved me! You dont know how happy and relieved I am right now!!!!
I had no idea how to fix this problem on my iPad Air. I was so mad and almost cried of desesperation, because I worked on this project for days. All I wanted to do is put my ipad away and never see it again. But this worked and I am so happy!!!😀😃😃😃☺☺☺
thank you so much
Thanks so much!
#JhonTheLifeSaver
Thx so much u helped me so much. I was getting so annoyed, if it wasn’t for u I would have had to delete the whole app and start everything over 😭
THANKS 🌸😀
Thanks a lot. I was struggling a lot to free up memory but could not find any clue. Your trick works like magic. Initially I had deleted the iMovie project once. Second time again I was losing memory slowly. Thanks to you I saved myself from deleting the project again.
Thank you!!!
Please explain this to me as I have already deleted everything from my phone and tried this trick but it’s still not working ? Can you tell me step by step what you did please ?
Yeah doesn’t work for me either, unfortunately.
THANK YOU! It worked Finally!
its not working for me either😦 please help
Wish I could – this is literally the only way I’ve found to fix the issue. I could only suggest repeating the steps (try again)