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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0008579 | ardour | bugs | public | 2021-02-17 14:10 | 2021-02-18 22:45 |
Reporter | sciurius | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | x86_64 | OS | Fedora | OS Version | 33 |
Product Version | 6.5 | ||||
Summary | 0008579: Save as of a modified session yields a confusing dialog | ||||
Description | When a session is modified and I select Session > Save As..., a dialog appears with a confusing text. "Any changes made this time will be lost unless you save it." It seems to imply that things will go wrong horribly unless I save the session first. Saving will affect the current saved state of the session, and that is what I want to avoid by using Save As... . | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Create a session, modify something, and then Session > Save As... | ||||
Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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>Saving will affect the current saved state of the session, and that is what I want to avoid by using Save As... . You really want to save a snapshot of the current session, and not save the whole session under a different name in a different place. Save-as does the latter. https://manual.ardour.org/working-with-sessions/snapshots/ |
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In this particular case I want to make a new, distinct copy of the project, under a different name and location, to be used for an other, separate, project. To the best of my knowledge that is what "Save As..." is for. Also, for all applications that I know "Save As..." will save the *current* state, even if modified, to the new destination. In either case, the "unsaved session" dialog is confusing. |