[Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles

[Sciss]

ezra:~ rutz$ ls -la /Users/rutz/Desktop/HMSS/Kirche09/Ardour/TestTest/ 
interchange/TestTest/audiofiles/
total 4739176
drwxr-xr-x   7 rutz  rutz         238 May 14 23:31 .
drwxr-xr-x   4 rutz  rutz         136 May 14 23:27 ..
-rw-r--r--   2 rutz  rutz  1143092790 Apr 18 22:30 2009418session2_0.aif
-rw-r--r--   2 rutz  rutz   224993334 Apr 18 22:34 2009418session2_1.aif
-rw-r--r--   6 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:07 HMSS_SchH_Ludger.aif
-rw-r--r--   5 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:20 HMSS_SchH_MKov.aif
-rw-r--r--   5 rutz  rutz   352788066 May 14 19:16 HMSS_SchH_Sciss.aif

what does that mean? in fact i have the feeling now with the global  
option unchecked it really doesn't eat my HD space....




Am 14.05.2009 um 23:18 schrieb Brett Clark:

> Just a thought:  if they are on the same partition and Ardour
> does a hard-link, then how are you validating that the files
> are copies instead of links?
>
> If you do an 'ls -l' what is the number after the permissions
>
> Example:
> -rw-r--r--  2 oracle dba      3717 May 14 16:12 brett1.log
>            ^^^
> What is this number?  In my example, this is a hard-link to
> another file, although it could appear to have a size of its
> own, it truly doesn't take any additional space on the hdd.
>
> Thanks
> --Brett
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ardour-users-bounces at lists.ardour.org [mailto:ardour-users- 
> bounces at lists.ardour.org] On Behalf Of Sciss
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:11 PM
> To: Jörn Nettingsmeier
> Cc: ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles
>
> my files are on the same partition....
>
> Am 14.05.2009 um 22:19 schrieb Jörn Nettingsmeier:
>
>> Paul Davis wrote:
>>> 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 :)
>>
>> hmm. afair, not copying the files is only possible if the session
>> directory resides on the *same partition* as the to-be-imported file,
>> since ardour tries to use hard links - or did that change?
>> i think this is what sciss is seeing.
>> maybe a symlink option should be added (but then the user must take
>> care
>> not to nuke the original file, obviously).
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jörn Nettingsmeier
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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