BraulioLaguna
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Mac OS X

Q: How to delete GarageBand instruments and lessons?

Hello, I’m running macOS 10.12 and under storage management it says that "GarageBand instruments and lessons are using 1,02 GB. You can manage these files using GarageBand." I don’t even have GarageBand installed, so how can I completely get rid of it?Screen Shot 2016-06-28 at 16.37 GMT-4 1.png

iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2014), Other OS, macOS 10.12

Posted on Jun 28, 2016 1:48 PM

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BraulioLaguna

Q: How to delete GarageBand instruments and lessons?

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  • by teran,

    teran teran Jul 16, 2016 2:50 PM in response to BraulioLaguna
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    Jul 16, 2016 2:50 PM in response to BraulioLaguna

    It's 2.92G in my case and I've found some files:

     

    $ du -sh '/Library/Application Support/GarageBand'

    843M /Library/Application Support/GarageBand

     

    Looks like that's exactly lessons.

     

    Btw, I've tried to even download Garage Band from App Store to clean this stuff up, but haven't found only options for that.

  • by wlhunt2,

    wlhunt2 wlhunt2 Sep 6, 2016 2:32 PM in response to BraulioLaguna
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    Sep 6, 2016 2:32 PM in response to BraulioLaguna

    I have this same problem. I Have not been able to locate anything in .../Library/Application Support/GarageBand. It doesn't even exist. I also tried to download GarageBand to "Manage" these files like storage management said, but I wasn't able to do anything.

     

    I did find 2,700+ small sound files in .../Library/Audio/Apple Loops that appear to be for GarageBand. There was also an "Apple Loops Index" text file that I opened and it listed all of the sound files and appeared to have "... For GarageBand" listed after each sound file in the text. So I deleted all of those and saved a little bit of space.

     

    With all of that said, I am still hunting for 1.12 GB from this GarageBand junk.

  • by wlhunt2,

    wlhunt2 wlhunt2 Sep 6, 2016 2:55 PM in response to BraulioLaguna
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    Sep 6, 2016 2:55 PM in response to BraulioLaguna

    Here is an edit (including a SOLUTION!) to my above post, since it wouldn't let me edit it for some reason...

     

    EDIT:

     

    I found a good website that digs into what all GarageBand is using:

     

    https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/delete-garageband/

     

    There, it essentially shows four folders where things are that GarageBand uses (part of which are the Apple Loop files I came across). These are some things you can delete if you DON'T want to use GarageBand. You may also want to keep the Apple Loops files and Logic folder if you use Logic Pro.

     

    Here are some of the things you can possibly get rid of (but do so at your own risk!):

     

    • Macintosh HD/Applications/GarageBand.app (1.16GB)
    • Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand (995MB)
    • Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic (880MB)
    • Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Apple Loops (up to 10GB)*

    *Note that the size of the Apple Loops directory will vary depending on the number and type of loops downloaded by the user. You should not delete this folder (or the Logic folder) if you are using Logic Pro.

    After I deleted the listed items, I went back to storage management and it said that GarageBand was only using 12 KB which was down from over 2 GB!