[ardour-users] Problem opening sessions

[John Rigg]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:45:33AM -0500, Brett Clark wrote:
> > Don't know if it's just me, but Ardour2 seems to have a strange way
> > of opening existing sessions that aren't in the `Recent' list.
> > Selecting the session and clicking `Open' just shows a listing
> > of the session's files, it doesn't open it. I can only get the
> > session to open by selecting the relevant .ardour file and then
> > clicking `Open'. Can this be right?
> 
> I think its to give the user the option of opening a snapshot instead of the
> default session.  I have some sessions with multiple snapshots and there
> are times where i want to work on one of the snapshots as opposed to the
> default session. 

It doesn't seem very intuitive to me. I think new users might be
confused by this. I was confused too, before I worked out how to
open the session (so much so that I actually created a new session
and imported the sound files from the old one that I thought I
couldn't open).

John