Lost garage band audio files

i recorded a very important gig last night, and i was trying to arrange the audio into sections, and i cut a few pieces out, knowing i could just undo and get them back. unfortunately, i saved my piece, with those audio files cut out, and now there gone. is there any way possible i can get that audio back?

if you only removed parts of a region, you can just drag the edges back. any region you completely removed, and then saved, is gone.

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Lost garage band file

i've been working on a song for days on garage band. Yesterday when I went to sit down to work on the song, the file was completely gone. I tried searching it and spotlighting it but no luck. It isn't in recent documents or anything. The trash was empty. Is there any other place this document could have disappeared to?

Do you have external drives? If so, you might want to check them, turn them off and on again so that the system will see them. If the file is on a drive which is not seen by OSX, you won't see the file.
If you don't see any response for .band, that suggests that you are not searching correctly since it is unlikely that you have NO GB files on your machine. If you know some part of the name, use that instead of .band.
Use find instead of spotlight. Sometimes Spotlight is quirky and does not see some files, whereas the find function seems more stable for some reason - beats me.

Garage Band Audio Drivers

After Upgrading my OS to 10.5.8 from 10.4.1 I am unable to run Garageband '08. When I try to play one of my old projects the following message appears:
! GARAGE BAND HAS DETECTED A POSSIBLE CONFLICT BETWEEN ONE OR MORE THIRD PARTY MIDI OR AUDIO DRIVERS. BE SURE TO INSTALL THE LATEST DRIVERS FOR ALL AUDIO AND MIDI EQUIPMENT.
Can someone please tell me what the latest drivers are and what is a reliable place to acquire them.
I did download and installed PACE drivers, which I believe allow you to open protected files.
Thank you.
RL

Thanks for the prompt reply Cristoph. That is exactly what I did. It turns out there were a few prior discussions
regarding this issue, all advocating for the same method: I went to the Library folder, took out both Digidesign drivers from the Audio Midi Folder created a new folder within the Library and dumped them into it.
Voilå!! Garage Band works again! Thank you.

Garage Band Recording "File Not Found"

I'm recording in Garage Band and after recording, after i save, when i try to reopen the program says. This file is in 8 bit format. This size is not supported and cannot be played back. Anything i can do

APPLE...I have the same problem. It's not a permission issue. ALL of my personal audio recordings and only some of the underlying music are empty (ie "missing") and it shows "File Not Found." Please see the image below...
Could you please give a solution to this problem? I use this recording for work and need to edit it for a new client asap.

Garage Band audio with digital AV adapter

When I connect my iPad 2 to the TV via the optional HDMI digital AV adapter, the audio signal from most apps and system sounds is transferred to the TV via the HDMI link - ie I can hear the audio on both the iPad and the TV. The exception is with Garage Band - the audio from this app does not seem to export to the TV. I've searched in the General audio settings and the audio set up of Garage Band, but I can't find anything related to this. Surely there must be a way of configuring this great app so the the audio is exportable?

You need to turn on the 'AirPlay-Bluetooth-HDMI' option in setup within GarageBand. Then it will work.

Need to rescue Garage Band Files with Data Rescue II - what kind of files?

Hi all -
After a particularly gruesome computer crash, I am trying to reconstruct my lost files using Data Rescue II..... This program goes into the damaged hard drive and downloads all intact files it can find, but it is NOT able to label everything correctly. All it can do is divide things into folders - Audio files, document files, images, mail, misc., and movies. And within these folders are other folders - for instance, in the "Audio" rescued folder, there are hundreds of AIFF files, AIFF1 files, AIFF2, MP3, WAV, m4a, and m4p files.
My question is: can someone please tell me what the heck a Garage Band project file is? That would save me a lot of time in digging through all this material trying to find one....
(Don't get me wrong... I'm grateful to have stuff to dig through! I just hope my Garage Band files are intact and recoverable.)
Has anyone had success saving Garage Band files with Data Rescue II?
Thanks in advance.

Aaaagh!
I spoke too soon. Yes,I did indeed find the file that contained all the files I needed to retrieve (using Disk Rescue II). When my 6-hour download of the 78 GB folder finished, I check the files again, and they weren't located in the orphaned section, but in the Hard Drive section under the normal directory, in a folder called .Trashes - within that there was another folder called "501", which contained all the Garageband files I needed to retrieve. However, when I tried to open the downloaded "rescued" files, they were inside a folder called "Macintosh HD", which could not be opened, and I got a message that said "Could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Not only that, but even after 6 hours of (apparently) downloading the 78 GB folder, my hard drive, which had close to 83 GB of free space, said STILL had almost that same amount.
So did it download anything or not? What was it doing all those 6 hours? I have a file that I can't open, but apparently it's going to be empty anyway.
Here's the full story, for anyone with the patience to listen and offer advice. It looks like now I'm looking for a way to 1) get the permissions to open the .trashes file so that I can download everything, or 2) figure out a way to get Disk Rescue II to open the files and download them regardless of the permissions.
Full Story -
I am pretty sure that my computer crash was caused by working with the newest version of Garageband 08. Ever since buying it and loading it, my computer has been acting funny whenever I use the Garage Band program - I could only record about one in three attempts since the computer kept freezing as soon as I finished recording a line. I would have to use force restart to get going again.
The day the computer crashed, I was working on a Garage Band project, which kept crashing, and I was also using Finale, Microsoft Word, and iTunes -- all of which are my normal procedure and I'd never had any problems with anything before loading the new Garage Band 08. (See my posts on other discussion topics for more details). After the last freeze, the computer crashed totally and could not be restarted - it would get to the gray screen with the spinning gear and just sit there while the fans ramped up to overload.
I used Disk Warrior to rescue whatever files I could onto an external hard drive, and I started to download all the Garage Band files. However, the "estimated time to completion" said over 6 hours , so I stopped the download after a minute or so and went on to rescue all the other files that were smaller in size and easier to download - I figured I'd set Disk Warrior to download the whole 78 GB set of Garage Band files overnight while I slept. But....when I went back to begin the download again, I noticed that the directory of Garage Band files went only to the letter "C" instead of all the way to "Z" like my original files had done during that earlier attempt to download. I am assuming that somehow, the directory for the files I download before aborting the attempt (A-C) got exchanged with the directories of the original version (A-Z), but the original directory was no where to be found.
I decided to try an archive install in the hopes that I could just restart my computer and get the files out by hand. The archive install went fine, and the computer started up fine and got to the log-in screen, which had changed. I now had two blanks - one for user name and one for password, instead of the choices of names. I tried all my user names and passwords, and asked my wife for her names and passcodes, but nothing worked. The computer had apparently re-set all its permissions and User accounts. I tried using Disk Utility to reset the password in its opening screens, but instead of getting several User options, the only one it allowed me to attempt was "System Administrator (root)", and even that wouldn't let me in to change any passwords.
That's when I downloaded Data Rescue II, which does seem to do a good job of locating lost files. However, since I didn't have permissions to open the computer the last time, I am still apparently facing the same thing when I try to access files copies OFF the computer.
So I'm not out of the woods yet. I can see the files on the Data Rescue screen, but I don't know whether they have permissions tied to them or not, and if they do, whether the system would let me since I don't know what the passwords and user names have defaulted back to.
Any advice? Please?

Opening Garage Band files in Logic Express

I'm a school music teacher and have just started using Logic Express 7 to open kids' Garage Band files for tidying up and polishing.(Still a beginner with logic I'm afraid!) Have just purchased Logic Express 8 update, but haven't installed it because I heard that it won't open Garage Band 3 files. Is this true? If so, is it possible to have both 7 and 8 running independently on the computer? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

The original release of LE8 had a bug which required a workaround to open GB files. The subsequent 8.0.1 update fixed that. After you install LE8, go to Software Update and install the 8.0.1 update and you will be fine.

Converting Garage Band Files to mp3

does ne one know how to convert a garage band music file to an mp3... i wanna send a ring tone that i made to my phone but my phone wont except it cause of the file type...

http://www.thehangtime.com/gb/gbfaq2.html#converttomp3

Garage Band 3 audio into to Imovie HD?

I am not able to export Garage Band 3 audio saved for use in a podcast into iMovie 6.0.1. I would think that this would be possible because both are part of the iLife Suite. Does anyone know any way to get Garage Band audio into an iMovie? Specifically, I am trying to get a recorded voice from Garage Band into iMovie.
Thanks,
Lou

Thanks for the help. Importing into iTunes worked as you suggested. I don't know what I was thinking - - when I saw import to iTunes I thought, mistakenly for some dumb reason, that my track would automatically go to the iTunes music store if I saved to iTunes. I MUST get more sleep.
Lou

Missing ESX24 audio files

Accidentally nuked Garage Band audio instruments and samples a while back.
I replaced the files with files from a friends comp, but still some files can't be found.
For example, ESX24 String Ensemble cant find this file [probably more in the series] when I load it:
06f9bF1 M.wav
Could someone please do a search and see if this file exists, and if so, what is the folder called, is it in a Garage Band Library?
I have reinstalled iLife assuming the GB libraries came from there, but no luck. I have also reinstallef the 7.0 and 7.1 data from Logic Pro.
Any help appreciated to locate the missing audio.
Thanks

Dariobbaldo wrote:
I get an error message whenever I try to load an .exs instrument: Audio file "xxxxx.aif" not found!
Previous discussions don't seem to give any help.
Hm, I already posted this several times, but since you don't give any info on which "previous discussions" exactly "don't give any help", I'll write it anyway.
Quit Logic.
Rebuild your Spotlight Index.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
Wait for the reindexing to finish before starting Logic.
OK, and now for the patronising bit, which I'm afraid you deserve:
Dariobbaldo wrote:
I need to solve this issue pretty soon, so please give me an advice!
You're lucky, usually this sort of remark annoys me to the point of not wanting to help. If you need to solve it "pretty soon", that really is in no way anybody's problem but yours - you have to put in the effort, not us.

Logic Can't Locate Audio Files, Random Freak Occurrence?

I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but today I was asked to bounced down an instrumental of a remix that I had finished a few weeks ago. So when I went to go open up the project, Logic was saying that it couldn't find 3 audio files now all of a sudden, which were all vocal tracks by the way.
At first I thought Logic was looking for edited audio files because the file names had something like this after them... "#21312.wav". I did not see actual audio files that had any of these edited names so I thought that I had really lost the edited audio files some how, but what I did actually see with those edited names were actual folders inside the "Edits" folder of the project folder.
After the project had opened, I looked inside the Media bay window and the three audio files that Logic could not find had an exclamation mark next to them obviously. So I thought about trying something... I double clicked on the exclamation mark on each of the missing files again and I just decided to see what would happen if I chose the audio with out the "#12321.wav" names. It seems as though everything loaded fine and that those "#234323.wav" are not actual files, but folders with edit instructions for the original file in the "audio" folder of a project folder.
This has been the first and hopefully the last time it has happened to me (knock on wood), and I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this before? I would love to know why it happened out of the blue. Logic 8 has been good to me so far, hardly any crashes or other problems, hopefully it's just a random one time freak occurrence!

I did have this issue early on in version 7. It had to do with where I stored certain files and it happened after switching from a G5 to an Intel Mac. I think the issue came from having my Logic content on a separate drive and folder, and when I reinstalled logic I didn't use the same folder for its content.

Skype, Soundflower, and Garage Band

I am trying to record podcast with some people around the country, so that put me with iChat, now I can't talk to people on iChat that are on AIM on a pc, so that's out.
So now I turn to Skype and Soundflower. Soundflower let's me take the audio from the Skype conversation and send it to Garage Band and let's me hear while it till send to Garage Band. Now when I do this I either have Garage Band hearing only me, or only the Conversation without me.
So I said well if Garage Band can have multiple inputs then I can have a track that will be the Skype and a Track that will be my Microphone and it will work great. Now I don't know Garge Band well enough to know how to do this, that is why I aam here.
Settings:
Skype-
Audio Output: Soundflower (2ch)
Audio Input: AK5370 (That's my USB mic)
Garage Band-
Audio Output: Built-In Audio
Audio input: Soundflower (2ch)
Soundflower-
Soundflower (2ch)>
Channel 1: Built-In Audio [2]
Channel 2: Built-In Audio [2]
Soundflower (16ch)-
None (Off)
So that there gives me great sound from the Skype conversation(without me). So as I said before I need a way for Garage Band to have another input for me on a seperate track.
Thanks< Kyle/MicroJupiter

I have no familiarity with either Skype or SoundFlower (other than knowing what the both are), but here's an off the cuff - out of the box - thought.
Does SoundFlower appear to OS X as a virtual Hardware Device?
What I'm thinking, if it does, is that you could create an Aggregate Device in Audio MIDI Setup utility that consists of your 5370 and Skype

Recording in Garage Band

Hello,
I can record into GB using my Mac's built-in mic, but when I try to record with an external mic, using a Tascam US-122, although the GB meters show that GB is hearing the sounds, it will not record the sounds. I have downloaded the updated drivers for OSX 10.3 from the Tascam web site, but Tascam doesn't seem to offer any more recent update than that. I am running OSX 10.4.7. Is this version of the OS just too new, or am I missing some technical detail/work around? Thanks.

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, Tascam US-122 shows up in the Garage Band Audio input and output, as well as in the Sound I & O selections in System Prefs. Negative on Intel. I am using an aluminum G-4 PowerBook with 2 GB of RAM and no other apps open when I am in Garage Band. I am running OSX 10.4.7.
I am now getting a tiny bit of audio output on playback when I record into Garage Band, but only if I turn the output volume up to 11 on the Tascam unit. However the fault seems neither to be the Tascam itself, nor the external vocal mic (a Carvin knock-off of a Shure SM 58). All of the wiring, the connections and the powered speakers are functioning perfectly. If I turn the monitor on and sing or speak into the mic, I get all the volume I could ever ask for out of the speakers, with fine clarity and no static, etc. that might indicate faulty wiring or loose connectors. But when I record into GB with the record levels turned all the way up in the System Prefs Sound pane, Garage Band, and on the US-122, the playback comes out barely audible...even though all the VU meters are maxing out when I record, and the playback level is going off the scale during playback. Any ideas? I am flummoxed.
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Lost unsaved Garage Band File - PLEASE HELP

Lost unsaved Garage Band File - PLEASE HELP
I had an audio file made on Garage Band but it was unsaved. I left my computer on at night and for some reason this morning my computer had seemed tor restart. I opened the garage band file but nothing came up.
Is there any way I can recover this 'unsaved file'? It must be stored in cache somewhere.
Someone please advise.
Thanks.

I would just like to say Thanks to HangTime up there. This trick worked 100% ... I had recorded 8 or 9 rather long tracks; for an unexpected reason (first time I've ever seen the "gray screen of death") the popup window came up and in several languages told me I needed to restart the computer; did what it told me to, begrudingly. Came back online, opened the GB file, nothing was there. Yet, when I checked package contents for the file (which I didn't even know existed, compartmentalized "Media", until after reading this), there were the tracks! I owe you both for getting this up and running... album creds just may be in line. ~Matt

How do I unprotect my audio files so I can upload them to garage band on my iphone4?

How do I unprotect my audio files so I can upload them to garage band on my iPhone and use them

Hi Chris,
Format the flash drive in FAT32, save the file as you would normally and transfer it to the flash drive, then the PC. It should work fine unless one of the Word apps is older.

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