[Ardour-Users] File error

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:16 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com
<jonetsu at teksavvy.com>wrote:

> See attached.  Missing files (QDrBrush left and right) at startup.  I
> deleted them yesterday so there should be no error about them.


"I deleted them" ... meaning what?


>
> I have to add that I've been using Ardour for years and that I'm pro
> SW developer on Linux since 15 years.  So the chances that there's a
> mistake on my part are slim.  And I really don't think that the hard
> drive is failing although I'll surely make a backup Soon.  I haven't
> seen this mishandling of session files before, ever.
>

there does appear to have been an increase in this behaviour recently.
However, Robin and I performed independent audits of the code to find any
where that Ardour does an "unlink" (the POSIX system call to remove a
file), and could find zero instances of suspicious code. In fact, there are
only a couple of places where it exists.

Of course, all of this assumes you are using (at least) 3.5.357 because we
did discover (and fix) some complicated errors that could lead to file loss
in earlier versions.
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