So Just How Unreliable Is GarageBand?

Question

I've just started using GarageBand 1 that I had around, and have been absolutely horrified by file handling bugs, and everywhere I look I find people talking about all sorts of different corrupted file problems and so forth.
I'm wondering if people who are not familiar with other music apps think this is a normal and acceptable situation.
TheGarageDoor.com claims files get corrupted because...
"It's hard to say, computers these days are really quite complex, and things like voltage spikes or static discharges can sometimes affect things in a less than good way."
Orrrr. Due to highly buggy software?
So before upgrading to GB3, I'd like to get some opinions from serious DAW people who have used lots of other music apps, on how GB compares for reliability.

Answer 1

It's corruption of files on disk -- which I've never seen with any other DAW -- that is freaking me out.
I moved a folder full of archived GB songs to another disk partition, cloned my System to another drive, did disk repair and permissions repair on all the partitions and drives... and every single GB song lost track of its audio (in its own Package). That's some fundamentally, existentially bad file-reference programming for an app entirely dependent on file references.
I will get around to trying GB3... very, very, very carefully, while doing non-expendable work elsewhere.<
I don't understand how your archived GB songs...no matter where and how you moved them, could have been corrupted? I'm confused. I've read this complaint from time to time, and still I don't understand how an archived song can lose it's integrity. I had made a song with special things in it like changes to intruments by applying certain filters and such and sounds from another place and so on and when I saved it, I presumed it was saved. But as time passed I had ditched a couple folders during a cleaning frenzy and tossed the folder out with one of the sounds in it. Then later, I deleted an intrument that I had tweaked then used. Naturally, the song was a delirious mess after that. So I fixed it. Came here. Found out about archiving. And now it is safe...very...on a zip disk. All the other stuff has been deleted. But the integrity of the song has been retained. I just opened it...sucessfully...the other day. All the specific files are in the .band song folder and life is good.
This software is amazing, but we need to be very left-brained about protecting our work...which can be a jolt at times...because we are SO right-brained while we're working on a song. We, as the users, have to be careful about making the concientious effort to make certain we've protected our project. If not, all we end up with is a disaster and all the tears that go along with the crisis won't fix it. We are learning from our mistakes. So, we have to make sure that we don't make them.