As discussed in a recent hint, iLife '06 includes a custom installation option to move certain bits of the program to another hard drive or partition. Within iDVD 6 itself, there's also a way to change the path of the folder that contains the iDVD themes (look in Preferences > Advanced). But not iMovie 6.
So if you want to change the folder containing the iMovie themes after installation, the way to go is to edit the global com.apple.iMovie.plist file, found in the top-level Library/Preferences folder. Open the plist file, and you'll see that it has only one entry:
[robg adds: iDVD has a similar file here as well, but since the application includes the option in its preferences, there's no need for the manual editing.]
So if you want to change the folder containing the iMovie themes after installation, the way to go is to edit the global com.apple.iMovie.plist file, found in the top-level Library/Preferences folder. Open the plist file, and you'll see that it has only one entry:
<dict>
<key>searchPathsForThemes</key>
<array>
<string>/Library/Application Support/iMovie/Themes</string>
</array>
</dict>
Simply change the string value to the full path to the folder you'd like to use, then save the file and quit the editor. Don't forget to move your theme files to the new location when you're done.
[robg adds: iDVD has a similar file here as well, but since the application includes the option in its preferences, there's no need for the manual editing.]
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