[ardour-users] Problem with cleaning up dead files

[Jesse Chappell]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Micha=EBl?= Ball wrote on Wed, 07-Apr-2004:

 > > Yes, this feature has not been fully tested and needs to be properly
 > > addressed.  Aren't you glad it copied them to dead_sounds first?
 > > :)
 > 
 > Yeah, at least I could recover them. However, it means I've got a lot of
 > dead files that I would like to remove :) Would it mess up the save file
 > if I went through the entire project, looked to see which files were
 > live, and which weren't, and then remove all the ones not in use?
 
Yes, you could do this by hand, and look in the session's *.ardour
file and edit it to remove any references to the file sources you remove.
It's definitely a job much easier for a computer....

jlc