[Ardour-Dev] importing files

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 14:22 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:58:35AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> > otoh, lets just check something. when you say the file is copied, how do
> > you know this?
> 
> First noticed this when checking available space with df.
> And the copies are in <session>/interchange/<session>/audiofiles.
> In the one session where it worked, no such copies are present,
> just some very short placeholders.

run ls -l on these files.

if the originals are on the same filesystem as the session, ardour will
*hard* link the file into the session so that even if it is
moved/renamed/deleted in its original location, it still exists as we
expect it to.