[Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Sciss <contact at sciss.de> wrote:
> 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....

ardour tries to be clever in this case (files were already on the same
partition). it does something that to a user with not much experience
of Unix as an operating system looks like a copy, but actually is not
(its called a "hard link").

there have been arguments that ardour should *not* do this.

the bottom line is that its not making a copy of your files. it is
simply creating a hard link so that if you inadvertently removed the
original file, it won't vanish from within the session.

--p