How to transfer Garage Band to new computer with all selfmade stuff

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How to transfer Garage Band to new computer with all selfmade stuff

I just got myself a new macbook pro with of course garage band preinstalled.

I transfered all my .band projects from my old macbook and the loops i made too.

i put the loops in the same directory as they were on my old macbook hd/library/audio/apple loops/user loops/ but garage band didn't find them so i manually mooved them into the loop browser in garage band.

only problem: i have to mark them all as favorites again and whenever i open an old .band project for the first time gb has to search for each one again.

can you tell me how to do it better next time?

but now to the more important and current problem:

where do i find my selfmade software instruments on my old macbook and where do i have to put them on my new one?

and is there anything else i might need from my old gb that i didn't think of?

thanks,

paul

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Aug 7, 2011 4:43 AM

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Aug 7, 2011 9:39 AM in response to paulkreuzer

The best way would have been to use the Migration Assistant - it would have moved your whole user folder and your personal stuff over to the new computer.

About the instruments: There could be two Instrument Library folders, under HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand and User/Library/Application Support/GarageBand (depending on whether you made the instruments available to all users.) If the other GB is a standard installation of the same version, you can just replace the folders on the new computer with the ones from the old machine, and all your instruments should be there. (The "if" refers to the fact that by doing this you lose all custom instruments you might have made on the new computer.)

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