Garageband 10.4.2 old files won't open
Hi, I recently got the new Garageband update and Big Sur and I cannot open any of my Garageband files. Can anyone help please? Matt
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2
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Hi, I recently got the new Garageband update and Big Sur and I cannot open any of my Garageband files. Can anyone help please? Matt
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2
And your previous version of GarageBand has also been a version of GarageBand 10.4 or a much older version?
Is your Desktop by any chance being synced with iCloud Drive? Then try, if you can open the GarageBand project, if you move it to your Music folder and it has been completely downloaded from iCloud. Do you have plenty of free storage on your Mac? At least 10GB? I just tested - with the current version of GarageBand 10.4? I just tested - My GarageBand 10.4.2 can even open GarageBand projects created in 2006 with a very old GarageBand version.
Can your current GarageBand installation create a new project and open it?
And your previous version of GarageBand has also been a version of GarageBand 10.4 or a much older version?
Is your Desktop by any chance being synced with iCloud Drive? Then try, if you can open the GarageBand project, if you move it to your Music folder and it has been completely downloaded from iCloud. Do you have plenty of free storage on your Mac? At least 10GB? I just tested - with the current version of GarageBand 10.4? I just tested - My GarageBand 10.4.2 can even open GarageBand projects created in 2006 with a very old GarageBand version.
Can your current GarageBand installation create a new project and open it?
Which version of GarageBand created the projects? Where are the projects stored?
And what happens, when you try to open the projects? Is there any error message? If yes, what is the error message?
The previous version of GarageBand created the files. They are stored on my desktop. It says "the file couldn't be opened".
Thank you for your help. I’ve fixed the issue. All of the media attached to each file had been deleted so there was nothing to open. Thankfully I could download it all from iCloud again.
Garageband 10.4.2 old files won't open