[ardour-dev] how to recover crashing session

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 10:55 +0300, Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:
> Hello. I managed to crash one session with the 'good old' 0.99.3 and it 
> cannot load it again without crashing. The same happens with a recent svn 
> version. I issued also a tracker item for this (0001254)
> 
> How would I try to recover the session by editing the xml file?
> 
> The crash happened from changing the zoom span to zero, maybe that has 
> something to do with it. Is it saved somewhere in the xml? I didn't find 
> it.

zoom is saved in ~/.ardour/instant.xml. this is a semi-known bug
(problems restarting if zoom = 1 pixel per sample)

--p