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recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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My system is Ubuntu Studio 18.04. I've created directories on a partition on another drive for Ardour (and Mixbus) to store the projects. But the place I've set up in Ardour and Mixbus to save is actually a symlink (in my Homefolder) to that directory on the other drive.

This results in the phenomenon that when I open Ardour or Mixbus it shows in the recently used projects each project twice. Is there a way that I can avoid this?
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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I recommend a bugreport.

A workaround would be using your project directory as the mountpoint for your other drive.

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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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bluebell wrote:A workaround would be using your project directory as the mountpoint for your other drive.
Sorry, I don't understand. How would I do that?
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To give information what I have done:

UbuntuStudio ist installed on /dev/sdb4. That data partition is on /dev/sda3.

I've mounted sda3 in /mnt/StudioDaten. Then I added the UUID to fstab so it gets mounted at start. In "StudioDaten" I created the directory "Ardour5-Projekte" and then made a symlink in home:

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$ ln -s /mnt/StudioDaten/Ardour5-Projekte/ /home/sprock/
And now recent projects show up twice in Ardour at startup.
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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Did you try deleting the project list in Ardour?
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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sprock wrote:
bluebell wrote:A workaround would be using your project directory as the mountpoint for your other drive.
Sorry, I don't understand. How would I do that?
.................................................................
To give information what I have done:

UbuntuStudio ist installed on /dev/sdb4. That data partition is on /dev/sda3.

I've mounted sda3 in /mnt/StudioDaten. Then I added the UUID to fstab so it gets mounted at start. In "StudioDaten" I created the directory "Ardour5-Projekte" and then made a symlink in home:

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$ ln -s /mnt/StudioDaten/Ardour5-Projekte/ /home/sprock/
And now recent projects show up twice in Ardour at startup.
mkdir /home/sprock/StudioDaten

Then use that dir as the mountpoint in fstab

No symlink needed.

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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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I have had that to once. I resetted ardour by deleting the ardour configuration = /.config/ardourX map (this does not damage the installation).
After that you have to setup like you did the first time (minute work) and read the plugin-list again.
After that you can simply open the ardour-projects in the directories in your home and after that they are back in the start-list.

Never ever after had it again.
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

Post by merlyn »

I agree with @bluebell.

You can mount a file system anywhere -- it doesn't have to be /mnt. So you don't need a symlink, just mount it where you want it.
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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lilith wrote:Did you try deleting the project list in Ardour?
How can I do this?

I'd like to try this first since it would be the easiest solution.
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@zoco: Did you also work with symlink for the directory?
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@bluebell and merlyn: I've never done this before. Could you give me a step by step explanation how to do this? (By the way, since I see that bluebell is located in Germany: German is my first language; if you by accident know of a tutorial in http://www.ubuntuusers.de about how to do this, a link would be great.

Thanks to all of you so far.
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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sprock wrote:
lilith wrote:Did you try deleting the project list in Ardour?
How can I do this?

I'd like to try this first since it would be the easiest solution.

In the project list (when Ardour is coming up) you can press right mouse key and then "remove session from recent list". Maybe it works?
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Re: recent projects show up twice in Ardour because of symlink

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sprock wrote:
lilith wrote:Did you try deleting the project list in Ardour?
How can I do this?

I'd like to try this first since it would be the easiest solution.
.............................................................................................
@zoco: Did you also work with symlink for the directory?
.............................................................................................
@bluebell and merlyn: I've never done this before. Could you give me a step by step explanation how to do this? (By the way, since I see that bluebell is located in Germany: German is my first language; if you by accident know of a tutorial in http://www.ubuntuusers.de about how to do this, a link would be great.

Thanks to all of you so far.
Ein Mountpunkt ist ein leeres Verzeichnis, egal wo. Lege also in Deinem Homeverzeichnis /home/sprock ein Verzeichnis StudioDaten an.
Dann erstetzt Du /mnt/StudioDaten in der /etc/fstab durch /home/sprock/StudioDaten

Den alten Symlink kannst Du löschen, der hat keinen Sinn mehr.

Nach einem Reboot (es geht auch anders, aber ein Reboot ist am einfachsten) ist Deine Datenplatte unter /home/sprock/StudioDaten gemountet.

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