[Ardour-Users] Ardour 5.5 session always in "unsaved" state

Bruno Ruviaro bruviaro at scu.edu
Wed Dec 28 11:13:08 PST 2016


FWIW, I have experienced the same "always in unsaved state" thing recently
(Ardour 5.5 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04). Didn't have time to investigate, and
didn't lose any data.

B



On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 12:22 PM, George Khouri <gk1 at four-four.com> wrote:

> Well, to at least partially answer my own question, and this may be a bug:
> If I create an audio bus, add the a-Reverb plug-in to that bus, write some
> enable/disable automation for the plug-in on the audio bus, and set the
> automation to "play" mode for the a-Reverb plug-in, Ardour 5.5 always
> thinks the session needs saving, even immediately after saving. If I set
> the automation to "manual" on the plug-in, Ardour indicates that it is
> saved after saving the session - as expected.
>
> George
>
>
>
> On 12/21/2016 01:58 AM, George Khouri wrote:
>
>> Friends,
>> I have a session in which, all-of-a-sudden, Ardour 5.5 always thinks/says
>> it needs saving, even after being saved. I couldn't find any discussion of
>> this problem elsewhere.  I have worked in this session daily for a few
>> weeks, and I have saved several snapshots. All has been normal regarding
>> the "save" state. Yesterday I saved a new snapshot, switching to the new
>> snapshot. From that point, in this snapshot and the one it was created
>> from, the session always says it needs saving when I close it. If I modify
>> the session, File->Save will save the changes but Ardour thinks the session
>> is not saved.  The asterisk is always in the main window title bar, and I
>> can't quit Ardour without being prompted to save the session. Annoying and
>> unsettling. Earlier snapshots of the same session open fine and the
>> saved/unsaved state indicators behave as expected.
>> Other Ardour sessions and new sessions behave as expected regarding
>> saved/unsaved state indicators.
>> Running on Ubuntu Studio 14.04
>>
>> Any ideas? I'd rather not go back to an earlier snapshot, since I would
>> lose several hours of editing.
>> Thanks,
>> George Khouri
>>
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