How to delete Music Creation in System Storage?

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For those looking to delete music creation from your system storage, I tried a bunch of different ways and something finally worked.


On a newly purchased 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS High Sierra:

  1. Apple Logo > About This Mac > Storage > Manage
  2. Click on Music Creation
  3. If you see a button to remove GarageBand, click it to remove everything. If space is still being taken up, go to a Finder window, search GarageBand, and delete any files that come up either in This Mac or Library. Then search for Apple Loops and delete any files that come up either in This Mac or Library.
  4. If you don't see a button to remove GarageBand, reinstall GarageBand from the App Store
  5. After installation is complete, relaunch About This Mac > Storage > Manage and the button should be there. At this point, follow Step 3.

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)

Posted on Apr 21, 2018 8:44 PM

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Posted on Apr 22, 2018 12:09 AM

Just an add-on to this great list:

If you have more than one Music Creation application installed, you may see a list of separate items instead of GarageBand, when you select "Music Creation".

Hovering the pointer across one of the items, like "Apple Loops" or "Instrument Library" will reveal an "x" to remove this item.


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Apr 22, 2018 12:09 AM in response to acliffkirby

Just an add-on to this great list:

If you have more than one Music Creation application installed, you may see a list of separate items instead of GarageBand, when you select "Music Creation".

Hovering the pointer across one of the items, like "Apple Loops" or "Instrument Library" will reveal an "x" to remove this item.


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