[Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Sciss <contact at sciss.de> wrote:
> hi,
>
> whenever i import audio files to the region list, unchecking "copy files" is
> not respected. ardour always creates copies in
> <SessionFolder>/interchange/<NameOfSession>/audiofiles , which is very
> costly with large files. how can i avoid that the files are copied? this is
> with ardour 2.8 on osx 10.4

Options -> Misc -> Always copy files to session

and if you ask "why show the option to not copy if this is enabled?",
then i agree with you :)