Thanks for your answer. No problem with the 1st point. It just surprised me when I discovered it worked this way but that's fine when you know it. And this is cool to learn that it's undo-able.
However, regarding the 2nd point, I don't get any warning message when I save as an archive even though I have unused files. The only message I get happens after reopening the archive and closing it again and is about the deletion of the archive folder.
As I'm using version 0.9.12 from the Ubuntu 20.04 repos, I just tried to reproduce the steps with the last AppImage (0.9.18) and the same things happen. So let me try to be clear about these steps :
Our root folder is named qtractor.
Open song1.qtr in sub-folder song1.
Save as song2.qtz in the root folder. No warning. At this point, I think there's a problem : title bar says song2.qtz but the files used in the session are still the ones from the song1 folder so I shouldn't rename my session to song2 and the most careful thing to do is to close this session.
Reopen song2.qtz. The sub-folder song2 is auto-created. I can rename my session to song2 and nothing is related to song1 anymore. Close the session. Warning about the deletion of the song2 folder.
In my opinion, the problem is that when you just saved as an archive, qtractor should behave the same as when you reopen it, that is to say, using the auto-created archive folder. Or there's another way, it could save the archive without opening the archive session and keep the previous one opened (with song1.qtr in the title bar).
I hope this is clear and helps. Thanks for all your work on qtractor.
Hi Rui,
Thanks for your answer. No problem with the 1st point. It just surprised me when I discovered it worked this way but that's fine when you know it. And this is cool to learn that it's undo-able.
However, regarding the 2nd point, I don't get any warning message when I save as an archive even though I have unused files. The only message I get happens after reopening the archive and closing it again and is about the deletion of the archive folder.
As I'm using version 0.9.12 from the Ubuntu 20.04 repos, I just tried to reproduce the steps with the last AppImage (0.9.18) and the same things happen. So let me try to be clear about these steps :
Our root folder is named qtractor.
Open song1.qtr in sub-folder song1.
Save as song2.qtz in the root folder. No warning. At this point, I think there's a problem : title bar says song2.qtz but the files used in the session are still the ones from the song1 folder so I shouldn't rename my session to song2 and the most careful thing to do is to close this session.
Reopen song2.qtz. The sub-folder song2 is auto-created. I can rename my session to song2 and nothing is related to song1 anymore. Close the session. Warning about the deletion of the song2 folder.
In my opinion, the problem is that when you just saved as an archive, qtractor should behave the same as when you reopen it, that is to say, using the auto-created archive folder. Or there's another way, it could save the archive without opening the archive session and keep the previous one opened (with song1.qtr in the title bar).
I hope this is clear and helps. Thanks for all your work on qtractor.