How come no .plist for GB in prefs?
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How come there's no .plist for GB in the prefs?
The property list stores your preferences, but also the settings from the last run of the application. If that file is corrupted in some way, you might see a broken GUIs or other strange behaviour.
You must have this file, for it will be recreated automatically, if it is missing, or you have a permissions problem with your user library.
Perhaps you did look in the wrong place.
in MacOS 10.7. or later the User Library is hidden. To find the Preferences Files use the Finder's "Go" menu:
Quit GarageBand, if it is running.
Click onto you Desktop to bring the Finder forward.
In the Finder Menu press "Go" and hold down the "option/alt" key, until your user library appears in the drop-down menu
If you want to remove the preferences, do this:
Select "Library" and in the Finder window that opens navigate to the "Preferences" folder; move com.apple.garageband.plist to the Desktop.
Log off and on again (don't skip that step!). Retry GarageBand and see if it GarageBand is now downloading the missing content properly.
Why are you looking for the preferences? Do you need to fix something?
-- Léonie
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