How do i get back my garageband songs that are only on icloud?

Hi Kymikaze

That's a bonkers response from Apple - sounds like they were confusing the version for the iPad with the Mac version. Looks like Originalman2000 got a more sensible person on the phone and something that worked.

Just tried the 8 steps from my earlier post and it made no difference at all.

The iCloud songs that had synced ok before were copied down to my iPad but the two "offending" songs are still greyed out and refuse to download.

So back to square one unless there's some steps I missed out ?

Just remebered Im not on iOS 5.1.1 yet, wonder if that would make any difference ?

Maybe I'll upgrade to 5.1.1 after deleting the GarageBand app and then reinstall..........has to be worth a try !

Hi,

the same thing happend to me in early May, three scratch songs I was supposed to work on later....went up to the iCloud and that's where they remain. Apple support was so kind to remind me that GarageBand in the iCloud is not officially supported.....until then, maybe, I will get them back. I'm on 5.1.1. and maybe I'll try a GB reinstall.

But still, the iCloud is certainely not userfriendly. The iDisk was no masterpiece too, but admited access to

the stored files...bye-bye iDisk.

Seriously folks, since that day I plug the cables again, disabled iCloud, but I'm missing those songs...

We should reclaim our material. This is unauthorized possession of intellectual property...bug or not bug

FIX IT !!

I have the exact same issue.. My iPad crashed during uploading a few songs. All of them now have the green edge with the arrow; turning grey when touching them.
Anyone has found a fix yet? I really want these songs back! (Apple do something about this! 😝)

The same has happened to me, the ong is just greyed out. Anyone had any success?

...even with ios 6.0 there will be no support for GarageBand in the cloud. Check it out. Forget the cloud, there is nothing

In it for musicians. Spreadsheets, mail etc. are supported and if you call Apple support regarding your problems they're

trouble shooting suggestions vary to much depending on they're knowledge......

Again, I stopped using the cloud and dislike the whole idea of storing my files in place where I have NO access to my

files and I am supposed to rely on automated synching with no support from the vendor. I will not renew my Apple

subscription after almost 9 years of storing and retrieving files with iDisk and will look for another supplier on the market

.

Hi guys,

First post on these boards, but I had the same issue and I found a solution today. I had to basically create a new 'dummy' song with the same name as the one that is in the 'stuck' state BUT with different capitalization. For example, "Awesome Song" becomes "awesome Song" or similar. When I did that, the stuck song started to download from iCloud and actually came back o my iPad!!

However, if you delete the new dummy song, the old one gets erased as well. Later, if you create a new song with the same name, it will say the name exists. Weird...but anyways, I got my song back!

This is encouraging. Can you be more specific about what your method was?

Did you record anything into this dummy song in order for it to allow you to save it? Did you then delete whatever you recorded in order for the dummy song to be empty? How did you prompt GarageBand to try and download this dummy song and fool it into downloading the original version of the song?

I don't want to try this and accidentally do something wrong and lose the original for good!

Thanks for any input you can provide.

Well by 'dummy' I mean any random song, just to make the process work. I actually happened to record the song again and give it the same title but lower case. After leaving the new song, the original/stuck one started to download from iCloud on its own. I went into the original song and all the original contents were STILL there.

I made copies of both the original and new recordings to be safe. When I deleted the new song (non-copy, lower case title), the original stuck song also got erased automatically. Luckily I had copies of both.

Hope that helps.

Hmm, can't seem to make this work. Anybody else try it and have any success?

When I go to Manage Storage through the iCloud settings on my Mac, the original files (SONGNAME.band and SONGNAME.png) are there. (There also were no duplicate files with the alternately capitalized version... Hmmm.) Seems ridiculous that there's no way to just pull that file frlom the iCloud server and re-load it on to the iPad. So frustrating!!

Anybody know if Mountain Lion will allow for any sort of more comprehensive iCloud file management?

Actually there might be one more step to initiate the download, but I can't remember. After you create and rename the dummy song to the lower case version of title, try to add it to iCloud. This might help the old song start downloading. It doesn't hurt to try.

Hmm... I've also tried this. The dummy song started to upload to iCloud by itself. But it got stuck aswell.

Maybe I should have waited a bit longer, I closed garageband immediately after trying.

I will post here if I succeed!

...Hi, how did you find that trick ?