iPadOS 16.2 - GarageBand now says “the file doesn’t exist” when sharing songs using “save to files”

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iPadOS 16.2 - GarageBand now says “the file doesn’t exist” when sharing songs using “save to files”

My iPad just auto-updated to iPadOS 16.2 the other day. Now, when I try to export a song from GarageBand (iPad) it says “the file doesn’t exist… the file “my song.m4a” couldn’t be copied because it either doesn’t exist or the folder it is being copied to doesn’t exist” when sharing song using “save to files”.

Normally I save files to iCloud, but I also have tried saving to a folder in the iPad. Same error so there must be something wrong with the new iPadOS and GarageBand iPad.

I have been using iPad GarageBand and saving songs to files for years with no trouble, so this is a brand new problem.

Please help!

iPad Pro, iPadOS 16

Posted on Jan 28, 2023 01:53 PM

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Taserface

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Mar 11, 2023 05:07 AM in response to Greggbhill

Thanks for sharing. I was running into the same problem on iOS. Your fix worked there, too. Thanks! 🙂

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Greggbhill Author

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Jan 28, 2023 02:17 PM in response to Greggbhill

So I explored options and if I first choose “open in” (instead of “save to files” on the first “Share” dialog it then exports and prompts again to save to files. If I then choose “save to files” it works. So not sure why, but the new option to save to files on the first “share” dialog is misleading and you have to first choose “open in files” and then “save to files”- which is what I think it used to be. ???

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iPadOS 16.2 - GarageBand now says “the file doesn’t exist” when sharing songs using “save to files”

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