On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 8:31 AM, <jonetsu@teksavvy.com> wrote:

Hello,

  This is Ardour 1:2.8.14-1 (Linux Mint x86_64).  I have now created three new sessions, and at first I thought I did somethign wrong, but now after creating another one I see that the specified directory I indicate for a new session in the opening dialog shown when Ardour starts was rightly chosen from the directory dialog box but still, the session was created in the home directory instead.

this is a bug in the version of GTK you are using. the bug also exists in the prebuilt versions of Ardour 2.x from ardour.org, but NOT Ardour 3.0 which comes with an updated version of GTK.