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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000173 | ardour | features | public | 2003-12-05 03:17 | 2004-06-02 15:50 |
| Reporter | ericfenderson | Assigned To | taybin | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Summary | 0000173: Cleaning up unused audio files | ||||
| Description | It would be great if ardour could remove old, unneeded data. Old takes can start to consume huge amounts of disk space. | ||||
| Additional Information | On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:19:53 -0500, Paul Davis said: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:19:53PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > >On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:59:03AM +0900, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> In the mean time I have almost filled up my HDD so how can I safely > >> discard old takes? I assume I need to delete the files and edit the > >> .ardour xml? I tried the cleanup menu but nothing seemed to happen. > > > >Yea, this has been biting me recently as well. Is there a way to > >"clean up" an ardour session, removing any takes that aren't referenced > >in the xml session file? > > yes and no. > > there is some stuff implemented, but it has some problems. you can try > it though, under the Session item in the menubar. the main problem is > managing the lifetime of various objects, FileSources amongst > them. last time i looked, i still didn't have this quite right, > resulting in cleanup doing almost or absolutely nothing because it > believes that the files are still in use. could one of you please file > a mantis report on this so that its not lost. > > note also that the cleanup is 2 stage thing. first stage moves the > files into a trash directory. then you can try the session to be sure > it works OK and that you've lost nothing. stage two cleans out the > trash directory. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-12-05 03:17 | ericfenderson | New Issue | |
| 2003-12-12 21:34 | taybin | Status | new => resolved |
| 2003-12-12 21:34 | taybin | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2003-12-12 21:34 | taybin | Assigned To | => taybin |
| 2003-12-12 21:34 | taybin | Note Added: 0000282 | |
| 2004-06-02 15:50 | taybin | Status | resolved => closed |
