Hi, I have a major Garageband 10 project based on what I believe is a Logic synth patch called Lalaria Pad. I had previously been a Garageband 6 ('11) user, and then I updated to Garageband X under Mavericks. The many synth patches were still available, I think in the "legacy" category. I paid $5, I think, for a large download last fall.
Well, Monday I upgrade to Yosemite with a clean install, for complicated reasons. I reinstalled what is apparently the "Yosemite version" of Garageband X, as it no longer shows the Legacy instruments. Or, possibly, the software is the very same, but my clean install ate the legacy instruments that had been present from my earlier Garageband 6 install. Whatever the cause, the old stuff seems not to be present in the new install. I have used the "restore downloads" function, which brought back many loops and drummers I needed, but the sweet old synth items are still missing.
So, I went to an older Mac, which still has Garageband 6, and upon which I never downloaded any extras. Lalaria Pad shows there clearly in the Synth Textures menu under Software Instruments. When I click it, it tells me it will download the instruments via "software update" and then launches the Mac OS App Store, which proceeds NOT to download anything at all.
Any suggestions at all? I thought if I could get the old machine to download the patches, I'd just surgically move them to the Yosemite Mac to see if that would work.