Cntrl-click on the installer file, and choose Show Package Contents. Open the Contents folder and then the Installers folder. I beleive at this point you'll see a couple of.pkg files, one to install loops and the other to install instruments.

Is there any way to simply tell GarageBand to rescan its instrument library? Because all the files that were there before, are still there.No, there is no such way.GarageBand scans the Instrument library automatically, when it is relaunched. But with the new process model ' automatic termination' introduced with MacOS X 10.7, GarageBand may not really quit, when you quit it, but remain in the cache. The only way to ensure, that the Instrument Library will be read again, is restarting the system.Have you compared the number of items in th eInstrument Library to your backup? If all fails, restore the complete library like it used to be from your backup - everything in/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/.

Is there any way to simply tell GarageBand to rescan its instrument library? Because all the files that were there before, are still there.No, there is no such way.GarageBand scans the Instrument library automatically, when it is relaunched. But with the new process model ' automatic termination' introduced with MacOS X 10.7, GarageBand may not really quit, when you quit it, but remain in the cache. The only way to ensure, that the Instrument Library will be read again, is restarting the system.Have you compared the number of items in th eInstrument Library to your backup? If all fails, restore the complete library like it used to be from your backup - everything in/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/.

So: make a backup once everything is reinstalled via this MainStage app store process.Then, then in the future I should be able to simply restore the contents of Library/Application Support/GarageBand. And Library/Audio. And be back where I was, correct?After installing MainStage.

GarageBand was not refreshing the existing Jam Packs between restarts. The jam packs were still gone until I reinstalled them piece by piece from inside MainStage.I am wondering if any manual restore option really exists. Are we sure this will work?

I cant say anything to MainStage 3, because I installed the JamPacks using MainStage 2, and there was no similar trouble.I wonder why you had to reinstall the loops in the first place. Did you make a clean install of the system and reinstalled GarageBand '11? There was a bug, that the Migration Assistent forgot to migrte the Instruments library and the JamPacks were missing.See:Then, then in the future I should be able to simply restore the contents of Library/Application Support/GarageBand. And Library/Audio.

And be back where I was, correct?Right. Thanks, I did. Here's what I filed.I installed MainStage 3 and it seems to have eliminated all the JamPacks in GarageBand 6.0.5. But the Jam Pack files are all still where they were before.After installing MainStage 3.0. GarageBand 6.0.5 was not refreshing the existing Jam Packs between restarts. The jam packs were gone until I reinstalled them piece by piece from inside MainStage.After 'downloading additional content' in MainStage.

Installing Jam Packs and going back and selecting various hidden components, I am almost back to where I was.all the Jam Packs I had, are now visible or mostly there.It seems it should be possible to manually restore a backup of the software instruments in their proper folder hierarchies. And an update should not break an existing good installation! Apple Footer.This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.

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The installer for the Remix Tools uses PowerPC code and will not run on an Intel Mac on newer system versions. MacOS X 10.7 Lion was the first system that did no longer support Rosetta, the software to emulate a PowerPC on an Intel processor.

You can try to extract the sound files from the package, however.

See HangTime's post:

here's what i have scribbled in some notes:

cntrl-click on the installer file, and choose Show Package Contents.

open the Contents folder and then the Installers folder.

i beleive at this point you'll see a couple of .pkg files, one to install loops and the other to install instruments

from what others have posted you'll get some error messages when you launch them, but if you click through them the files will get installed.

if it works, please post back and let us know, i'd like to formalize it a bit and add it to the GB FAQ.

May 19, 2018 5:22 AM