[Ardour-Users] interchange/audiofiles

[Sciss]

ok, thanks for clarification! i have been using symlinks a lot and  
they have a visual cue in the finder, so i didn't know this other  
type of link existed. the thing of keeping the file when the original  
is deleted is kind of nice, i must say.

cheers, -sciss-


Am 14.05.2009 um 23:42 schrieb 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