problems cleaning up in ardour

[Det]

Just started with the ubuntustudio stuff ...

[...]
>> and I have to re-take a lot...which means that a lot of
>> useless audio gets saved in the song files.   for instance,
>> the last song I wrote has a whopping 8 gig .wav file!
[...]
> My hard disk is chock full of random useless recordings of bad takes I
> forgot
> to delete while I could still keep track of what they belonged to, and
> sorting this mess out is almost impossible.
>
> Thankfully we have cheap hard disks these days.  What's another 40 gigs to
> preserve the random three gigs of real stuff I might have laying around?
> Although my real stuff might even be only half of that.

I hope that was meant ironically.

> Anyway, I'm not helping you, and I apologize for hijacking your plea for
> help, but I also thank you for the source of amusement.

Nice to see someone being amused of it ...
For me unnecessary wasting of any kind of resources is no
source of amusement at all, even if it is the 'cheap' hard disk space
(plus the 'cheap' time for extending and reorganizing my hardware and
possibly reorganizing the whole file system, plus the 'cheap' power
consumption needed  for additional drives,  ...)
Really, hearing that with ubuntustudio I'm probably on the way to
dump my disks full of useless stuff without an easy chance to avoid
that makes me think about the seriousness of this tools ...

I think like me, Greg wants to use his time for making music
and not mainly maintaining the devices.

Would all tools I use (Graphic tools, office suite, development environment)
work this way, I would get rid of it instead of paying money to keep my
own personal waste dump running.

KR
A pensive mind