Why do i lose aif. files in garageband

I finished a recording, saved it, and came back a few hours later and received two messages saying my VPA3#06.aif files were not found. Anyone know how to find them. What causes this and how to prevent it from happening. This has happened in the past as well.

Hi Comstock2544,
I had the same problem during the last year.
According to some experts, .XMP are metadata files, something called "sidecar" files: they contains information about some of your pictures (e.g.: date of capture), and must be inthe same path of them to work properly (although probably useless on our pc).
And... they aren't actually of Adobe: they are standardized widely.
In our case, they are created by iOS when you crop and modify some pics with th iPhone tool. They serve to store information about your editing, without lose information from the original pictures.
In facts, if you crop one of your pics and save it, when you come back to re-crop it, you can see that the rest of the image cropped is still there.
A friend friend was able to delete them (I had 3) just deleting them, but I'm still unable to do that with the new ones. Anyway, you can just ignore tham and it'll be fine.
P.S.: You can open them with the notepad to see what info they store.

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