Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 1/30/06, Brad Fuller <brad@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
>> I am stuck in a dialog box of the export session to file in ardour.
>> I forgot to put a filename for the export and ardour came back with
>> "ardour can't open export file ..... (system error)"
>>
>> Ok, fine. But, it won't let me close that dialog box, nor will it let me
>> "stop export" when pressing that button in the "ardour: export" dialog box.
>> No other menus are working - kinda locked out. (although I can type a
>> new filename in the export window - but nothing really works"
>>
>> I hate to loose my session. Any ideas?
>>
>>
>
> Damn, that's a drag. Sorry, but I've not run into that one and don't
> know any way around it.
>
> It would be VERY risky, but if this is a NEW version of Ardour the
> developers have put in some sort of 'crash' protection that gets your
> session back after a crash. Don't know exactly how you'd engineer a
> 'crash', but if you could them *maybe* the crash protection would save
> you.
>
> One other idea. Can you open a terminal and just copy the whole
> directory somewhere else? If the session is really not saved, but you
> have the audio and most of the session file, maybe it won't be that
> hard to get things patched up.
>
Hey Mark,
That's what I ended up doing. Copying the whole directory. I can
probably make sense out of it.
thanks for the help!
brad
Received on Tue Jan 31 08:15:05 2006
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