On 1/30/06, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 1/30/06, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I am stuck in a dialog box of the export session to file in ardour. > >> I forgot to put a filename for the export and ardour came back with > >> "ardour can't open export file ..... (system error)" > >> > >> Ok, fine. But, it won't let me close that dialog box, nor will it let me > >> "stop export" when pressing that button in the "ardour: export" dialog box. > >> No other menus are working - kinda locked out. (although I can type a > >> new filename in the export window - but nothing really works" > >> > >> I hate to loose my session. Any ideas? > >> > >> > > > > Damn, that's a drag. Sorry, but I've not run into that one and don't > > know any way around it. > > > > It would be VERY risky, but if this is a NEW version of Ardour the > > developers have put in some sort of 'crash' protection that gets your > > session back after a crash. Don't know exactly how you'd engineer a > > 'crash', but if you could them *maybe* the crash protection would save > > you. > > > > One other idea. Can you open a terminal and just copy the whole > > directory somewhere else? If the session is really not saved, but you > > have the audio and most of the session file, maybe it won't be that > > hard to get things patched up. > > > Hey Mark, > > That's what I ended up doing. Copying the whole directory. I can > probably make sense out of it. > > thanks for the help! > > brad > Brad, Glad it worked. Cheers buddy
