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44 lines
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<!DOCTYPE section PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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]>
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<section id="sn-cleaning-up-a-session">
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<title>Cleaning up a Session</title>
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<para>
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placeholder text: needs editing and references to menu items
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</para>
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<para>
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Cleanup looks for audio files that were recorded by ardour for this
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session, but are no longer in use. "In use" means "present in any
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playlist in any snapshot of the session". If you have unused playlists
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(e.g. alternate takes) cleanup will volunteer to delete them for you.
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then it will search all snapshots (including the one you are working
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with), and move all unused captured audio files into the "dead_sounds"
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directory within the session. At this point, you could still potentially
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get material that was "cleaned up" back, though its quite tricky to do.
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</para>
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<para>
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It is advisable, even <emphasis>firmly recommended</emphasis> that after
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this cleanup step, you save the session, exit ardour and restart. This
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will enable you to confirm that the session still works as expected. If
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all goes well (and it should), you can then do the 2nd phase cleanup,
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which will remove the files from the <filename>dead_sounds</filename>
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directory (at which point, the material is not recoverable without
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backups on your part).
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</para>
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<para>
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Note that the presence of snapshots can cause user confusion, as in "why
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didn’t cleanup do anything?" The answer is frequently that there are
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all capture audio files are in use in this snapshot or in others.
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</para>
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</section>
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