[LAD] LADI

[Dave Phillips]

Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, alex stone wrote:
>
>   
>>>
>>> But at the moment, it's not well defined what is part of the "state,"[1] nor
>>> what should (and should not) be saved in a "jacksession" directory, nor what
>>> can be expected WRT portability.
>>>       
>> But it was defined. A file that showed the saved state of each app
>> present in the session, and a list of all connections that were
>> current at the time the session was saved. Couldn't be simpler.
>>     
>
> So, if 'Foomatic DAW' saves state with a one-liner like 
> this:
>
>    <foomatic_session id='EBC429B5-373B-4840-8CCA-99FBE045EF82' />
>
> That satisfies the requirements of your sentence.
>
> Is it OK with you that the session doesn't load because you 
> moved or deleted the original project files?  And is it OK 
> with you that the session can't load on another computer 
> without manually restoring Foomatic's files?
>   

IIRC Reaper prompts the user if files are missing from a project and 
asks if the user wants Reaper to search for them. Seems like an easy 
mechanism, potentially time-consuming unless the search can be delimited.

Best,

dp