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Garage band iOS lost all my projects
So I'm on a call with support from Apple and they're clueless.
I upgraded my iCloud to 2TB and I'm guessing that's what caused the issue.
Did anyone lost projects in GarageBand iCloud folder?
It's frustrating. they weren't much but I'm afraid of the other stuff I have in iCloud.
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I have no clue but those damn Clouds, better of with old fashioned storage like usb/harddisk.
+1000
Never really had an issue with cloud storage (iCloud or Dropbox), but I back up onto an SSD from time to time just in case.
I did. A lot of files I manually deleted appear there. But not my projects.
I had a similar thing happen a few years ago— a bunch of seemingly-random files disappeared from iCloud, including all my GarageBand projects, and they weren’t available through the restore function. It took three calls to Apple Support and about two weeks of waiting, but they managed to restore everything EXCEPT my GB projects. They never told me what the issue was, either.
Hopefully they can restore it all for you!
Maybe there’s a GB bug.
I had another hypothesis. You know when iOS offloads apps to make room for updates? GB was offloaded quite a bit of time. And maybe when iCloud backup kicked in it deletes the data 🤷🏻
Looks like it might be too late in this case, but I keep Time Machine backups in an external drive, on Dropbox and in Google Drive. You can never have enough backups.
I have a 1TB external SSD that I use only for backups. Always like to have a ‘just in case’ copy of important things.
The issue for me is how to even know what is local & what is on the cloud (& what is icloud/icloud drive?)
given the way Apple presents minimal white screens of integrated file browsing .
It seems pretty easy to think you are deleting locally but also delete in the cloud .
Also , conversely & perversely , when I turned on Icloud in settings on a recent new Macbook
( thinking it would help with spacesaving on my budget limited HD size) ,
it started downloading ! half(?) my icloud stuff filling up the drive ...until I de-activated, deleted ...
& cussed Apple ...again.
Even their own Help pages treat Sync & BackUp as if they are synonymous ,
so the whole thing seems a big pile of mess , hidden behind a minimalist white page .
edit @alecsbuga p.s sorry for your loss , I got caught up in the rant
I know it doesn’t help but I have files (including GB projects) that are around 5 years old on my iCloud. During that time I’ve updated storage and saved and deleted many files. So I don’t think the issue is necessarily because of iCloud or GB.
I had years of projects. 20-30 ish. Not masterpieces but it’s worrying. I migrated phones and tablets over the years and didn’t encounter any issues. Something did happen. I talked with three guys over 1:30 hrs and they’ll get to the bottom of it. Worst case they contact the devs. And maybe we get some logs.
Hope you retrieve your work. And as a reminder to us all, , do external backups if you can! I'll do mine tonight. And for those using Garageband on iOS with audio tracks, duplicate the song first. It saves it much smaller than the original if you've ever exported those stems.
I had the same issue once. iCloud is so annoying, hard to keep up with what it’s doing.
Sometimes you update iOS and it decides to do something crazy and reset your preferences which results in a loss of files.
That sucks! Good luck man
I have a feeling all these supposedly user-friendly, completely opaque "magical" features will at some point explode together in a huge, beautiful, terrifying "magical" fireball and people will go back to basics (local storage). This whole idea of having all your dozens of GB of data "magically" synchronized "in the cloud" is a pipe dream. I mean, Apple is having a hard time making the Files app work reliably even with local files 🤣 don't even talk about SMB! (I spent a whole hour yesterday on two seperate occasions trying to copy a file between my iPad and a Linux box running Samba (with which no other computer or OS has problems sharing files). I've stopped counting the number of times the Files app has frozen, started and stayed blank, crashed, or just skipped or greyed out the relevant options in the menus.
(I know this doesn't help, but I'm just wondering when all of this will finally completely collapse. It's clear as day that nobody at Apple, and probably at many other companies, has any idea anymore of the "big picture" of what's going on with their 500 light years high software "stacks"!)