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On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, James Morris  wrote:

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> On 21/07/12 "J. Liles"  wrote:

> >On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, James Morris

> >wrote:

> [..]

> >>

> >> Any thoughts about symlinking to symlinked samples?

> >>

> >> I decided to follow symlinks when storing sample paths in memory and

> >> then recreate the symlink path when saving. This avoids symlinking to

> >> symlinks. I believe it provided some other minor benefits but can't

> >> exactly recall what they were now.

> >>

> >> james.

> >>

> >

> >When does this situation come up? The whole point of the symlinks is

> >simply to permit some kind of session portability without the session

> >manager or user having to understand the project format. So, for that

> >purpose, nothing really matters except that a tar or a copy should

> >include all (within reason) of the external resources the session

> >requires.

>

> User creates session. User then creates 2nd session and wants to

> use same samples as 1st session but, for whatever reason, rather than

> loading samples from original paths, goes instead to 1st session dir

> and loads the samples from that.

>

> User then decides to delete 1st session thereby breaking 2nd session.

Nothing is fool-proof...

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