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On 3 July 2011 21:14, Fons Adriaensen  wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:32:53PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

>

>> sure, which right now is not a separate function at all, but merely a

>> branch of the "finish" function. not exactly a huge amount of work to

>> split it out, but indicative of the complete (and understandable)

>> design assumption "there's no way to get here except via the GUI".

>>

>> otoh, you're right, in the sense that quit-WITH-save is even more

>> complex, and faces all the same issues with threading etc, only more

>> so because it actually has data to save etc. etc.

>

> 'Save' is also available from the Session menu, so I assume

> it is a separate function. Then all you need for 'Quit-

> without-save' is to skip it, which means one if().

>

>

> Quite unrelated to all of this, I do have a question

> about Ardour's 'Save' semantics.

>

> There are:

>

> (1) 'Save'

> (2) 'Save as'

> (3) 'Snapshot'

>

> and

>

> (4) 'Periodic safety backups' (option)

>

> and

>

> (5) the 'save' as performed by 'Quit' or closing the main

> window, in case "Save and quit" is selected from the dialog.

>

> How do they all interact ? I could possibly find out with

> some hours of experimentation, but I assume this has been

> defined (and maybe documented) somehow.

>

> In particular:

>

> - Is there any difference between (2) and (3) except that

> the one suggests a name and the other doesn't ? For both

> the dialog says 'Name of New Snapshot'.

>

> - After (2) or (3) what does (1) do ? Overwrite the last

> snapshot, or use the original session name ?

>

> - After (2) or (3) what does (4) do ?

>

> - After (2) or (3) what does (5) do ?

>

> This matters a lot if starting from a the same session you

> make different versions of it, e.g. a stereo mix, a surround

> mix, and 'tapes' for a live performance (in particular this

> one tends to be very differerent).

>

> Or put otherwise, is a snapshot made by (2) or (3) guaranteed

> not to modified later by (1), (4), (5), or not ?

>

> Thanks in advance for clarifying this !

Asking the questions the rest of us assumed not knowing the answers to

was a result of lesser intelligence!

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