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Apple loops disappeared

Hi there. Since upgrading to LPX 10.5 my apple loops have gone. in LPX. When I open Garageband, the apple loops are there... Can anyone help me tot solve this issue. Thanks in advance, Pieter

Posted on May 23, 2020 1:54 AM

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May 23, 2020 9:16 AM in response to PBWS

Well before you do (it’s straightforward), just try resetting preferences and/or deleting them,


Resetting preferences doesn’t affect your project files, presets or patches. However, you do lose any custom preference settings that you might have made.

  1. Choose Logic Pro X > Preferences, and note any specific Logic Pro preference settingsthat you’ve made.
  2. Choose Logic Pro X> Preferences > Reset All Preferences Except Key Commands. 

After resetting preferences, open your project and try to reproduce the issue that you were experiencing. If the issue no longer occurs, open Logic Pro preferences and reapply your custom preference settings.


Delete Logic Pro preferences

  1. In Logic Pro, note any custom preference settings that you’ve made, and save any custom key commands you've created
  2. Quit Logic Pro.
  3. In the Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder.
  4. Enter ~/Library/Preferences, then click Go.
  5. Remove the "com.apple.logic10.plist" file from the Preferences folder. 
  6. If you upgraded from Logic 9 or earlier to Logic Pro X, also remove the "com.apple.logic.pro" file. 
  7. Restart your Mac.





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May 24, 2020 11:51 PM in response to PBWS

Reinstalling on a Mac is 99% useless, did you do as laamusic described?


Go to the upper left Logic Pro X Menu, scroll to Preferences and select "Reset All Preferences Except Key Commands"

Important: Immediately quit Logic and reboot the computer. Reindex.

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May 23, 2020 8:50 AM in response to PBWS

Very. Have you tried logging in to your Mac as a different user and openingLogic to see if there is a preferences issue on your account?

failing that given the content is there and you can’t drag a loop to the browser, (did you get any error message?) You’ve rebooted, relaunched, reindexed and still no joy, I’d be inclined to try a reinstall of logic. It’s weird!

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May 24, 2020 11:29 PM in response to PBWS

Yes that’s right.


so you can see the loops in their folder, but you can’t drag one from there to the loop browser.

you can see all downloaded library sounds, but still no loops.

but in GarageBand they’re still all there?

have you a saved older version of logic?

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May 25, 2020 7:32 AM in response to PBWS

Your Loops are on your system drive, Yes?

There is one other possible solution.

The Loops are originally indexed by Spotlight, if the spotlight index gets corrupted it can give you re result you're seeing.

Back up important data, (safety measure) never had a problem with this but let's take no chances.

Go to:

System Preferences/Spotlight

Choose the Privacy Tab

Drag your system drive, or use the + to select it.

Select Choose, quit Sysprefs and reboot. (The original Spotlight Index has been deleted)

Now go back to the same place and remove the system drive from the Spotlight privacy tap.

Again, reboot and Spotlight will reuild the full drive index.

Be patient. Rebuilding the drive index will take some time.


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