How to completely remove Garage Band from macOS?

macos

I have GarageBand taking 2.46 GB space on my system even after I deleted the app. Couldn't find any other files when searched via spotlight.

Manage Storage

Is there any way to find these files and remove them?

Solution 1:

On a fresh install of Sierra 10.12.2, the GarageBand files are:

/Applications/GarageBand

/Library/Application Support/GarageBand

/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/Apple Loops for GarageBand

/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.GarageBand_AppStore.bom

/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.GarageBand_AppStore.plist

/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0325_AppleLoopsGarageBand1.bom

/System/Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.MAContent10_AssetPack_0325_AppleLoopsGarageBand1.plist

~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.STMExtension.GarageBand

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.STMExtension.GarageBand

Delete those and you should be GarageBand free.

Notes:

You might want consider also removing /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple and /Library/Application Support/Logic (those loops aren't GarageBand-specific — Logic Pro uses them, for example).
If you're comfortable with the command line, you can delete this list programmatically. I recommend using the tool trash. First copy the above list and save it in a new file. Then run
```
xargs trash <pathtothefile
```
For example if you save the list on your Desktop as garageband-files-to-delete.txt, you'd run
```
xargs trash <~/desktop/garageband-files-to-delete.txt
```
(this may require sudo. you could also use rm -rf instead of trash, but that's dangerous).

Solution 2:

The "Storage Management.app" now allows you to remove the instruments.

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More information on Storage Management is in "A modern and faster alternative to Disk Inventory X" (macOS 10.13.5 shown)

Solution 3:

You can use locate command to locate all files used by GarageBand, e.g.:

locate GarageBand

^{Note: To rebuild db for the first time, run: sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb.}

The main locations are:

/Applications/GarageBand (app it-self)
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple (GarageBand subfolder)

Also check for any user's data files at the following locations:

~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand
~/Library/Preferences/GarageBand
~/Library/Caches/GarageBand

See: Uninstall Mac Applications.

Solution 4:

I used CleanApp to remove applications from macOS. You can try it or any similar uninstaller, but you need the application installed to remove it.

Also check "Delete GarageBand to Save Precious Gigabytes of Mac Storage".