Re: [LAU] Ardour snapshots

Ardour snapshots *are* Ardour session files.

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:28 PM, Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Recently, I recorded some additional tracks into an Ardour session, and
> the new tracks turned out great, but some levels were changed on some of
> the already existing material that shouldn't have been changed, and I'd
> like to get my old levels back. I never created a snapshot in Ardour
> before these fader level changes.
>
> Fortunately, my machine makes backups every night, and I have a copy of
> my old project folder from backups. It's thus possibly to use rsync to
> zap my whole project folder back to the way it was before, get my
> levels, and then zap it back to its new state again.
>
> I was just curious though:
>
> Is it possible to use the .ardour and/or .history files from my old
> backed up folder to get the snapshot I should have made? Is it possible
> to recover these files, copy them into the new state of my folder, and
> use them as snapshots without changing a lot of other things? The
> reason I ask is because snapshots behave a lot like Ardour session
> files. (I haven't dived into the internals; maybe they are Ardour
> session files?)
>
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