[LAU] Script to clean up Ardour unused files ?

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sun Jan 26 21:05:49 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:53 PM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com
<jonetsu at teksavvy.com>wrote:

> 'Script' might be a big word, but a command-line way to remove all the
> files that are not used in Ardour(3).  Is it safe to assume that all
> files found in ../dead/ can be removed without deleting files that are
> in use ?
>

You are expected to use Session > Cleanup > Empty Wastebasket

If you don't use that, then purging everything under the dead/ subdirectory
is acceptable but not supported.

There is no way to to automate the behaviour of Session > Cleanup >
Clean-up Unused Sources

(it involves quite a lot of knowledge about session structure, and
potentially recursive parsing of XML).
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