After moving from one computer to another, third-party loops you have added to GarageBand may evaporate, depending on what process you used to migrate.
In my case, a great many drum loops disappeared and it was mystifying as GarageBand on the old machine could see them but they were not present on the new one despite painstakingly copying over everything.
The mistake was in copying everything that was visible. What will reveal the otherwise-invisible User Loops folder is the following command:
~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops
The reason it was mystifying is the User Loops folder is within Library in your home folder and the folder is normally hidden. Why that is so is a question for Apple but what makes it doubly mystifying is that the Finder will not show the contents even if searching by name. The only way you will ever see them is to use the command shown above.
In my case, a great many drum loops disappeared and it was mystifying as GarageBand on the old machine could see them but they were not present on the new one despite painstakingly copying over everything.
The mistake was in copying everything that was visible. What will reveal the otherwise-invisible User Loops folder is the following command:
~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops
The reason it was mystifying is the User Loops folder is within Library in your home folder and the folder is normally hidden. Why that is so is a question for Apple but what makes it doubly mystifying is that the Finder will not show the contents even if searching by name. The only way you will ever see them is to use the command shown above.
This cost me several hours of on-and-off searching. Hopefully you will see this before going through the same thing.
Update: The drum loops have now been entirely restored and this was huge to me as I have two and a half gigabytes of them. A good many of my songs had these loops embedded in them so any that were like that were broken. Now they're all fixed.
To rebuild your GarageBand Loop Index, drag the folder containing them into the Loops window and it will ask you if it should copy them to another location or use them where they are. Your choice depends on which you find easiest to manage. My choice was to leave them were they are on an external disk as that way there's no chance of losing track of them again and I can easily reload them should this ever happen again.
Update: The drum loops have now been entirely restored and this was huge to me as I have two and a half gigabytes of them. A good many of my songs had these loops embedded in them so any that were like that were broken. Now they're all fixed.
To rebuild your GarageBand Loop Index, drag the folder containing them into the Loops window and it will ask you if it should copy them to another location or use them where they are. Your choice depends on which you find easiest to manage. My choice was to leave them were they are on an external disk as that way there's no chance of losing track of them again and I can easily reload them should this ever happen again.
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