Hello,
I have Music Creation" but I don't have Garage Band on my iMac,
There isn't the usual option shown.
The amount of memory used corresponds with the amount of memory which is "Purgeable"
Can anyone help?
I can't help with the Safari problem, sorry. You may want to ask this in the Safari forum: Safari
Try again to reveal your User Library folder in the Home folder. It should look like this:
Select the Home folder in the sidebar as sown, then enter command-J. ( ⌘J).
In the View options panel set the checkmark for Show Library Folder. This option is only available, if you are currently viewing your Home folder, not for any other Finder window.
I've deleted loops and now arrived at 813mb in GarageBand,
I guess that will be ok as I can't find anything else after searching "Application Support" and I can't find an "Audio".
I also can't get the -
to work.
So things seem be running better now.
Except that I'm now having problems with Safari. It won't quit unless I use "Force Quit" all I get is the colour wheel.
Looking through the forum I see other fairly old posts/threads referring to this.
However I wonder if you had any ideas?
As an idea I've just completely re-installed Sierra V 10.12.3 from the App Store, but that didn't change the problem.
The screen shot above was taken after I'd downloaded Safari.
Many thanks leonie.
I've deleted the folder from /Library/Application Support/Garage Band/
It included various sub folders.
I don't have Logic or MainStage (as far as I can tell) but I'm still showing some in the Applications - 1.21
So a great improvement but still a little more to find.
Did I do wrong by deleting the whole folder in one go rather than sub folder by sub folder?
There may be GarageBand items installed in your User Library as well.
Check the folders
~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/
~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/
in the Library folder in your Home folder as well.
Your user library may still be hidden.
To reveal the hidden User Library:
The GarageBand Instruments and lessons will be in the folders
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/
and
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Learn to Play/
Do you have Logic or MainStage installed? These may be using the same folders.
Are there any other folder left in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/ ?
You can delete them all, if you are not planning to use GarageBand at all.
GarageBand is also keeping loops installed in /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/
But some of the loops, the iLife Sound Effects, will also be used by iMovie. Otherwise you could remove the loops as well.
Well done and so many thanks Leonie🙂🙂
I hadn't realised that my Home Folder had disappeared,
I followed your instructions and low and behold there were the suspicious files (stuff from Mac Cleaner etc). I deleted al them and removed some other rubbish and now my iMac is back on form.
I still can't find that 813 in Music Creation but I will keep looking and perhaps it will go when I reboot.
I had given up with Safari and had switched over to Chrome which worked ok. I also tried Firefox and that worked as well.
So the virus was hidden in Safari and thanks to you it's now gone.
I'll let you know if I do ever clear the 813MB.
I'm really grateful and I wish you a very very happy rest of your day🙂
I'm glad your Mac is working again! You're welcome 🙂
When looking for "Music creation" items you may also look for a folder called "GarageBand" in your "Music" folder.
Or search for GarageBand projects, any file with the filename extension ".band".
perhaps you will come across such items one day.
Thanks again.
All loops removed and now down to 813MB showing for GarageBand.
Also still got Purgeable of 10.91 GB
We're almost there!
I have music creation but can't delete it?
