I decided to upload some stuff to my garageband.. I haven't used it in a few.. To my surprise its actually gone.. Anyone care to shed some light.. I go to the app store but apple is looking for $4.99... What the heck?? It came with the computer..
Please help
Which version of GarageBand did you have?
If you had GarageBand 10 or GarageBand '11 and it came preinstalled on a Mac without installer DVDs, look at the App Store on the Purchases tab (the fourth tab), not the main AppStore page . Reinstall GarageBand from there. The button to the right of GarageBand should be showing "Install".
If GarageBand is missing from your Purchases History, have a look at this link: Hide and unhide purchases in the Mac App Store - Apple Support
If your GarageBand version is older and came on installer DVDs, search for those installation media. Then you cannot reinstall from the App Store for free, because there you can only download the latest version GarageBand 10.1.1, and that is not a free update for GarageBand '11 but a new major release.
If your in the App Store and Garageband shows a price for purchase, either:
1. You are not using the Apple ID that you used originally on your Mac when you first purchased it. If your Mac had Garageband pre-installed on this Mac, that Apple ID you used when first getting the Mac should be associated with your pre-installed Garageband copy in the App Store. Like Leonie (the zen master says) , having the correct Apple ID signed into the App Store and clicking on the Purchased tab at the top of the App Store window would show you the Install option, if it's somehow been deleted/uninstalled/erased off the Mac.
2. Doesn't have his Apple ID signed into that App Store at all.
3. Got this Mac second had, where his Apple ID never had a purchased copy of Garageband.
If you did purchase this second hand and it was on the Mac, what ever caused it to be "suddenly gone" now is basically telling you, you will have to purchase a copy.
my garageband is missing(currently using yosemite)
