should i store my photos and iTunes elsewhere? should i delete games? i keep getting 'content not played' even on the simplest, most stripped down projects. i already store movies and notation files elsewhere.
GarageBand (Mac) '11, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
How much free storage do you have on your system drive?
Are your GarageBand projects on the System drive or on an external drive?
Are other applications running in the background, when you are working with GarageBand?
looks like my memory is pretty full. Garageband files are on the external drive, as are movies and notation files. i turn off everything i can when running Garageband.
You need plenty of free storage on your system drive, even if your GarageBand projects are on an external. Don't let the free storage on the system drive drop below 20GB.
How is your external drive with the GarageBand projects connected? Is it locally mounted or are you using a NAS? You need the fastest connect you can get - USB 3 or Thunderbolt would be perfect, depending on the ports our mac has. Mont the external drive directly, not daisy chained.
Have you checked, if all your software is compatible? Are you using any audio interface drivers that might need updating for compatibility with OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)? As a test you could open the Console.app (From Applications > Utilites) and check if there are any diagnostic messages relating to GarageBand when you try to play your projects. Perhaps that will give us a hint what might be problematic.
that's a lot of good information. it will take some time to check all that out - but thank you in the meantime.
i really need garageband to work!
