GarageBand seems to be different – it looks like it is using the storage location to generate the path to it’s configuration and data files (potentially by creating a relative path starting from the project directory). The operating system takes care of opening the files, regardless of how they are referenced. It looks like it can only find these files if the Music/GarageBand directory is on the same disk as the /Library directory (meaning, the startup disk).Ī Unix link (or to be more accurate, a soft link in this case) should be should be transparent to an application. These files are stored in the individual directories in /Library/Application Support/Garage/Band/Magic GarageBand. caf files, which contain the instrument tracks. While it’s saving the project, it needs to access the. Magic GarageBand saves the new project to it’s default location, which is the user’s Music/GarageBand directory. GarageBand also works, as long as I’m not using the new Magic feature. Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom, iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie – the old one, haven’t tried the new version yet – or iDisk).
This works with all applications that make use of these files (e.g. To make this work, I am using links in my home directory to link directories like Movies, Music or Pictures to their actual storage location on the second disk. My system is setup with the original startup disk that stores all applications, but I added three more disks, which I’m running in a RAID configuration to store all data files. While talking to them, I tried a few things on my system, and slowly developed a theory, and verified it:
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I have Apple Care protection for my Mac Pro, so let’s give Apple a call… After 79 minutes on the phone with them, I figured out what’s causing this problem, and then I tried to convince them that it’s indeed a genuine bug in the software. I found one thread on Apple’s support site with a workaround, but I hate to copy files without understanding why and what the impact would be. So, it looked like a major new feature of GarageBand was not working, therefore it should be fairly easy to find out why and what to do about it by googling for this problem… Wrong, it turns out that almost nobody is having this problem.
… and a few minutes of silence in the resulting projects: So, imagine my surprise when I just ended up with a bunch of error messages like this one ‘Audio file “Original Bass#3.caf” not found.’, with the option to skip or to search (which of course does not find anything) …
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I know that the new iLife ’08 GarageBand Magic feature is not a substitute for Band in a Box (or the Windows version ), but it would be an easy way to make my (rare) guitar practice sessions more interesting.