<div dir="ltr">On<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Sun, 07 Sep 2008,  Gustin Johnson wrote:</blockquote> <div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> Paul DeShaw wrote:<snip><br> <br> ><br> > pad@MacBuntu:~$ sudo find /media/PPA1 -type d -exec chmod 0666 \{\} \;<br> > [sudo] password for pad:<br> > find: /media/PPA1: No such file or directory<br> <br> Do a "df -Th" from the command line.  This will show you what is mounted<br> where, and with what filesystem.  What do you see?</blockquote><div><br>Oddly, enough, when I tried to get help at my local LUG meeting yesterday, the drive opened fine with the laptop, and when I tried it at home, I could open Ardour sessions recorded in MacOSX, not without problems (more on that later).  As for the "df-Th" command,<br> <br>pad@Studio909:~$ df-Th<br>bash: df-Th: command not found<br><br>Maybe there's a package I need to install?<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The no such file or directory usually means that the directory you<br> specified (PPA1) does not exist.</blockquote><div><br>But I can navigate to it in the file browser, and from the command line:<br>pad@Studio909:~$ cd /media/PPA1.2<br>pad@Studio909:/media/PPA1.2$<br>pad@Studio909:/media/PPA1.2$ ls<br> Ardour sessions  Desktop DF      line_in              Sony DVD<br>Audio            dyne-2.5.2.iso  MIDI                 soon_C.aup<br>Desktop DB       gfg             Rosegarden Sessions  soon_C_data<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > You also said to check the drive for problems; I'm not sure how to do that.<br> ><br> I am not sure if Ubuntu can do this for HFS file systems...</blockquote><div><br>Apparently not, unless the command is different: <br></div><div> <br>pad@Studio909:/$ fsck.hfs+ -cfv /dev/sdb1<br>bash: fsck.hfs+: command not found<br> </div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do Macs support ext2 or 3?  This is a better choice IMO.</blockquote><div> <br>AFAIK they don't.  <br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I exchange files with a Mac user regularly.  Usually I get a bunch of<br> PCM Wav files or FLAC files on a DVD that I then import.  Sometimes he<br> just copies them to my laptop via Samba.  I have personally had poor<br> experiences with HFS, so I avoid it.  Interoperability over the network<br> is usually fine though either via Samba or an SFTP client (ssh file<br> transfer, not FTPS which is FTP + SSL/TLS).</blockquote><div><br>I was hoping to have full access to the Ardour sessions on either system.<br><br>Now, suddenly, without changing anything, I can open an Ardour session  that was recorded in Mac OSX, along with anything else on the drive.  I can play back the tracks, and record a new track.  However, when I try to record something on a track created on the Mac, I get these errors from Ardour:<br> <br>[ERROR]: AudioEngine: cannot connect coreaudio:Built-in Input:out1 (coreaudio:Built-in Input:out1) to ardour:master/in 1 (ardour:master/in 1)<br>[ERROR]: AudioSource: cannot open peakpath (c) "/media/PPA1.2/Ardour sessions/blabla/peaks/AbacuaClp-2%A.peak" (Permission denied)<br> [ERROR]: AbacuaClp-2.wav: could not write peak file data (Bad file descriptor)<br><br>Looks like AudioEngine doesn't know to look for ALSA, though I'm hearing and recording tracks.  Also looks like I don't have recursive permissions for the whole directory.  I don't know what the bad file descriptor is about.<br> <br>Maybe I should give up on OSX for now, since I have installed Ubuntu Studio on both machines.  Still, it would be nice to work on sessions with a Mac user, there are lots of them.  I kinda thought it would be possible, since the OS's are both Unix or Unix-like systems.<br> <br>--PD<br><br>  <br></div></div><br></div>