I am trying to clean up my backup hard drive. I came across a folder"Music>GarageBand" which contained Loops and Jam Packs. Are these still of any use with the current version of GarageBand. My current MacOS is Big Sur. GarageBand version is s10.4.2. I notice that on my Primary hard drive there is only a song "My Song.band" from 2013.
Mac Pro, macOS 11.1
I would take great care of the loops and sounds and keep them. There are nearly no software instrument loops in the new loops packs of GarageBand, only real instrument loops, that need a lot of storage and cannot be modified, like we could ro with the software instrument loops. I have saved all loops and sounds from the older versions of GarageBand and make sure I have a backup.
It should work, just re-index your loops.
Logic Pro, GarageBand for Mac (v10.0): Reindex to fix issues with Apple Loops - Apple Support
Those can certainly be used in the current Garageband.
Right, but they need to be installed at the locations noted in the linked thread to be used by Garageband. At this point, they are just backups.
Thank you Keith for jumping in on this discussion. But I don’t quite know if what you sent the link to is exactly my situation. The Loops and Jam Packs that I am talking about reside on an external drive, not on the home drive.
I tried to find my Sound Library. It does not exist in the Library>Application Support>GarageBand. However, under Library>Audio>Apple Loops>Apple I found 34 subfolders of sounds, including Jam Pack 1. Can I move Jam Packs 2,3,4 into this folder and have GarageBand recognize the .caf files?
I really appreciate everyone's help and guidance. Just to make sure I understand what I need to do please let me review. I need to take all the old GarageBand loops, stored on an external drive and drag them into my System/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple.
This is where I have them stored.
And I want to drag them into here.
Thank you. Do they need to be installed in some form or fashion?
What to do with old Loops and Jam Packs in Garage
