Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-18 Thread Daniel James
Hi Gustin, You should see all the problems we have had with Windows 7. Right now, out of 5 DAWs, mine is the only one running natively in 64bit with all 8 GiB of RAM being addressable. Wooohooo! I'm glad to hear we're still in the lead on that one :-) Cheers! Daniel

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-17 Thread Daniel James
Hi Bob, See also the tips at: http://www.jrigg.co.uk/linuxaudio/audio-backup-dvd.txt Cheers! Daniel ___ 64studio-users mailing list 64studio-users@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-17 Thread Frank Smith
HI Love all the 'zeplin' file names in that link!! The writer must be my age!!! Cheers All On 17 May 2010 14:25, Daniel James dan...@64studio.com wrote: Hi Bob, See also the tips at: http://www.jrigg.co.uk/linuxaudio/audio-backup-dvd.txt Cheers! Daniel

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-17 Thread Gustin Johnson
On 10-05-16 03:01 PM, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-05-16 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? You bet. FAT is not nearly as liberal as Unix when it comes to file names.

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gustin Johnson wrote: On 10-05-14 11:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: snip ... wow, it works. Do you know that most information about issues similar to this one don't have good explanations in the web? Actually these sorts of things *are* well documented. The beginners and the

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Frank Smith wrote: HI All Trying to backup my multi-track files from Ardour and I keep getting F1Name of file ect as invalid file name and cannot back up the whole Dir. This means I'll have missing audio when I come to replay the session. Anything I can do?

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Smith
HI All This is now what I get after copying the interchange files back to the Ardour session ( note I had to remove a space in the File name of lately as it gave an error) * .wav): while searching

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 14:59 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI All This is now what I get after copying the interchange files back to the Ardour session ( note I had to remove a space in the File name of lately as it gave an error) [snip] How did you do the backup? This is still the correct path;

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 16:13 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 14:59 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI All This is now what I get after copying the interchange files back to the Ardour session ( note I had to remove a space in the File name of lately as it gave an error) [snip]

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Smith
Update I removed a space from the main file lately using bluefish and now have some of the files back I seem to have lost all drums ( imported and copied from another drum disk) All the main acoustic guitars 2 tracks and al the vocal tracks. cheers Bob On 16 May 2010 14:59, Frank Smith

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Smith
Hi All Just found this as I go: *** Sources Source name=Audio 2-2.wav id=1015 captured-for=Audio 2 flags= channel=0/ Source name=lt;F2gt;vox 5-0-bounce-1.wav id=46263 flags=Writable,CanRename,Removable,RemovableIfEmpty channel=0/ Source name=ax

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:27 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: lt;F2gt; There's a character set conversion for GNOME just to translate file names, e.g. to get the signs instead of the unicode. Search synaptic for file name conversion or encoding etc. ... I did find convmv but I'm sure at least there

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Frank Smith
HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? Cheers Bob On 16 May 2010 15:56, Frank Smith frsm...@gmail.com wrote: HI Ralph I think the external is Linux I'll try find out, Could be fat come to think of it.

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? Cheers Bob Yes Bob, I guess we got it: spinymo...@64studio:/media/INTENSO$ touch \test\ touch: setting times of

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 17:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? Cheers Bob Yes Bob, I guess we got it:

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Frank Smith wrote: HI Ralf Many thanks I think this is the problem. I'll have to backup the external disk and format it to Linux as I have no windows here now! Cheers Bob Note that you could use a TAR archive to preserve permissions and file names or that for the future you only use 8

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-05-16 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? You bet. FAT is not nearly as liberal as Unix when it comes to file names. As Ralf said, you can work around that by using

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-05-16 16:02 +0100, Frank Smith wrote: HI it's fat32 according to G parted! I remember this was for a windoze laptop I had years ago, could this be the problem? You bet. FAT is not nearly as liberal as Unix when it comes to file names. As Ralf said,

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-15 Thread Gustin Johnson
On 10-05-14 11:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: snip ... wow, it works. Do you know that most information about issues similar to this one don't have good explanations in the web? Actually these sorts of things *are* well documented. The beginners and the advanced bash guides for example.

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Bob, The only thing I can see is the F1. Will this cause a problem? I would expect so, considering that and have special meanings in the bash shell. For example, attempt to create a file with F1 in the name: dan...@64studio:~$ touch F1test bash: F1: No such file or directory However I

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: The only thing I can see is the F1. Will this cause a problem? I would expect so, considering that and have special meanings in the bash shell. For example, attempt to create a file with F1 in the name: dan...@64studio:~$ touch F1test bash: F1: No such file or

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: The only thing I can see is the F1. Will this cause a problem? I would expect so, considering that and have special meanings in the bash shell. For example, attempt to create a file with F1 in the name: dan...@64studio:~$ touch F1test bash: F1: No such file or

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2010-05-14 11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: File names are allowed to use any sign excepted the /, NUL, * and ? in Linux file names. Unix forbids exactly two characters in file names : NUL and /. * and ? are legal ; they just need to be quoted or escaped if they appear on a shell command

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Frank Smith wrote: HI All Thanks for the replies. I think this is the only session that I have frozen the tracks. I think there may be errors when re editing a frozen track. This is where the F1 and such seems to have appeared. When a track is frozen is not then meant to be 'unfrozen'?

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Andre Majorel wrote: On 2010-05-14 11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: File names are allowed to use any sign excepted the /, NUL, * and ? in Linux file names. Unix forbids exactly two characters in file names : NUL and /. * and ? are legal ; they just need to be quoted or escaped

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Clopton
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Andre Majorel aym-...@teaser.fr wrote: On 2010-05-14 11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: File names are allowed to use any sign excepted the /, NUL, * and ? in Linux file names. Unix forbids exactly two characters in file names : NUL and /. * and ? are

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Neil Clopton wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Andre Majorel aym-...@teaser.fr mailto:aym-...@teaser.fr wrote: On 2010-05-14 11:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: File names are allowed to use any sign excepted the /, NUL, * and ? in Linux file names. Unix

Re: [64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-13 Thread Neil Clopton
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Frank Smith frsm...@gmail.com wrote: HI All Trying to backup my multi-track files from Ardour and I keep getting F1Name of file ect as invalid file name and cannot back up the whole Dir. This means I'll have missing audio when I come to replay the session.

[64studio-users] Backing up Ardour Files

2010-05-12 Thread Frank Smith
HI All Trying to backup my multi-track files from Ardour and I keep getting F1Name of file ect as invalid file name and cannot back up the whole Dir. This means I'll have missing audio when I come to replay the session. Anything I can do? Cheers Bob