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My GarageBand project files keep getting deleted/renamed when adding them to Dropbox.
Dropbox stores the garageband projects as packages (.pkgf) instead of .band files, which so far doesn't seem to cause any problems. Is garageband just renaming them to a generic format or is it actu...
Hannah
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for that, indub.
Have you tried reaching out to the GarageBand's support team for more info on this?
It's not a garageband issue. All garageband is doing in this case is acting as access to a directory, just like the Files app. I just tested this with the Files app and the same thing occurred. The file was inaccessible (greyed out) in garageband until I renamed it in dropbox.
I think its how dropbox is handling similar file names. If I have the following garageband projects:
Track 1
Track 1 2
And I want to duplicate Track 1 2
The garageband app and files app, create the duplicate as Track 1 3.
If I already have Track 1 2 saved in dropbox and I paste Track 1 3 into dropbox (from files app or garageband app), dropbox autorenames it to Track 1 (1), but its not accessible within garageband, greyed out. I then go into dropbox and rename it again as anything else and it becomes accessible in garageband. Anytime I paste a file like that dropbox renames it with the (1).
If I were to duplicate Track 1, garageband and Files would create Track 2. Dropbox doesn't have an issue with that.
Hope that makes sense!
The other issue of the files disappearing after pasting is probably just an upload timeout, the file doesn't actually make it to dropbox.
- Nancy
Hey again, indub! Out of curiosity, are you having the same issue, if you compress the GarageBand file first to a .zip one and upload it to Dropbox after that?
In general, package files can be uploaded to Dropbox this way, but I understand if it’s not possible to test this, since you’re using the GarageBand mobile app instead.
That defeats the purpose of what I'm doing. No worries, its working as long as I rename the file after it uploads.
Curious, since dropbox saves the files as *name*.band.pkgf, if I remove .pkgf does it then become a .band file in the same way that apple does it? I would assume not. I have tried that yet to see what it does. I'll test it out too sometime soon.
Thanks
