[X Newbies] Garage Band

[Paul Baily]

On 29/04/2004, at 9:57 am, J wrote:

> When opening the application it seems to be looking for someone in the 
> USERS>HISUSERNAME>MUSIC>GARAGEBAND folder.
> [...]
> Can these be replaced? From where?
> Eventually the app itself opens OK.

That's the default location where GarageBand stores your music projects 
(the songs you're putting together.) When you launch GarageBand, it 
tries to open the last project you were working on. It stores 
instruments and loops at /Library/Application\ Support/GarageBand, so 
if those are there you should have everything it needs (aside, 
unfortunately, from any songs the user has created.)

If that's the only cause of the delay you should be able to fix this by 
launching GarageBand, then creating a new empty project and saving it.

If the delay (error?) still occurs I'd suggest removing/renaming its 
plist file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.garageband.plist) but note 
that that file also keeps track of where all the loops & instruments 
are. If GarageBand doesn't look around for custom loops & instruments, 
these may need to be re-added afterwards.

HTH, and cheers,

Paul.