Garage Band for 10.13.6

I had Garage Band when I purchased my 2011 iMac but found that space was a premium so uninstalled it. I am now unable to get it from the App Store as I only have High Sierra 10.13.6. Looks like another Apple scheme to force people to purchase a new machine. Next machine WILL NOT be an Apple device.

Don't know but at least you got it installed.

Thanks! 👍

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Kdragon1111 wrote:

This is 100% correct 👍

Would I lie? 😎

I think you're gonna have to delete the copy in Applications in Big Sur, from another drive, empty the Trash. Restart & check purchases again.

How to do it?

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How did you do this?

I am currently running High Sierra 10.13.5 but whenever I try to download GarageBand I recieve an error message informing me that I need macOS version 11 or later...

Thanks for any help

I've worked with the uploaded and installed version 10.3. 2 of Garageband. It seems to be working OK. The install of the Complete Sound Library is taking a very long time. I hope it doesn't screw it up. However, GB as 10.3.2 is working on my MacBook Pro 2010 17" running on High Sierra 10.13.6. It just finished with the Complete Sound Library upload. I've just checked which version of Garageband I have and it says I have 10.3.5. And it seems to be working fine. I'm getting a metronome click on my recordings, but other than that it seems to be working. I'm going to get out of everything now and see if I can get back in.

OK. I went into my Apple purchases as was recommended here to see if I could find Garageband there to upload. It was not on the list of my purchases. I've owned Macs for a very long time, decades. My first purchase of a Macbook Pro came with Garageband on its CDs. Perhaps Apple had some internal record that I had purchased it with my Macbook Pro, but it was not on my list of purchases. I went to download Garageband from the App Store but was given the message that I needed Big Sur 11 and I didn't have it so I wasn't going to be able to download Garageband. OK. I went back to my Applications menu and there was a Garageband icon there that wasn't there before. ??? I clicked on it and it began a download. I thought that it was going to download the latest Garageband and that after the hassle of downloading it I would probably get a message that I couldn't use the program, but it didn't. What it downloaded was Garageband 10.3.2. and downloaded Basic Sounds as well. It asked if I wanted to upload the latest version of Garageband and I closed the popup window. I clicked on the icon again and it asked if I wanted Complete Sounds. I said yes, but then immediately regretted it because I thought that it would be the thing that would make the program incompatible with my Mac and High Sierra. It wasn't. After the "Compete Sounds" download I clicked on the Garageband Icon again and the program is running. Under about Garageband it says I now have version 10.3.5. I'm recording and saving. I accidentally pushed the metronome button and was getting a clicking sound, but I figured it out and turned that off. I have now Garageband 10.3.5 running on my 2010 Macbook pro 17 inch running High Sierra. I hope those of you who are running High Sierra, if you follow my steps, will get a Garageband version that will run on your machine as I did.

The only way to download an older version is if you had downloaded it previously. In which case, you would download it from "Purchased".