Thanks Mike and Jayo for giving it a go and spending your time helping me out, it really is appreciated.

Still couldn't get it to recognise the RealTracks. I ran BIAB off the USB and it recognised them all. Tried installing 2023 over the top and it still wouldn't recognise them all. Just for whatever reason it wouldn't recognise those realpacks installed on my local Macbook. Beats me as to why.

I ended up fixing the problem by totally uninstalling BIAB, including deleting the PG MUSIC in the Library/Application Support folder. Then I backed up my 2023 UltraPak+ HD to my NAS and the 256gig USB-C I use to run BIAB, as I wanted to keep that HD as an unused backup for emergencies (which just came in handy) and just have a second backup on my NAS - though it took a good 4-5 hours to copy everything over to each device with all those 100,000's of files. Installed the 2003 UltraPak+ from the USB, keeping all the Realtracks/Drums on the USB and that detected everything fine it recognised all the RealTracks after the complete wipe.. so used the install manager then to upgrade it all to 2024, and that was fine, and finally 2025 which now all seems fine.

I'm not sure where things went awry, but really do appreciate the time and effort both of you put in to try and help me out. So big thanks to both of you. Regarding the permissions, it was odd as my local copy didn't have my user account in the permissions and it told me I had custom permissions. I added my admin account to it, but unfortunately that didn't solve it, it was a great option to check that I didn't think about. But all back up and running now.

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