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indub
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10 months ago

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...
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Nancy
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10 months ago

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.

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indub
New member | Level 1
10 months ago

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

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