On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com> wrote:

For some reason I was under impression that Ardour wrote absolute
paths to the project files. I guess it was because whenever I tried
opening projects that I relocated from another different machine with
a different username, I had to go though the aforementioned dialog to
point A3 to the files.

only true if they are embedded. ardour's own recorded audio (and MIDI) and imported (*not* embedded) audio (and MIDI) are all stored and referenced relative to the session folder.

we do probably need something like LibreOffice Impress's "Break Links" feature for images, which converts "embedded" data into stuff that is actually in the project (in my case, an Impress presentation went from 152kB to 350MB!! :))