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#1

Hi! I have some troubles with a recording.
While recording my track, it started to stop recording out of nowhere.
When I record my guitar tracks, i usually use Shift-Space to start the record, and Ctrl-Space to cancel my recording when i made a mistake to start over again.
Now, when I’m doing it, it may cause the bug I’m talking about.
I see this is the logs :

AudioDiskstream 3120: cannot write to disk
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: Butler write-behind failure on dstream Guitar 1
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to write a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar Dry 1-12%L.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: AudioDiskstream 3354: cannot write to disk
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: Butler write-behind failure on dstream Guitar Dry 1
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to write a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar 1-12%L.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: AudioDiskstream 3120: cannot write to disk
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: AudioDiskstream "recorder:Guitar": cannot flush captured data to disk!
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to flush a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar 1-12%L.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to flush a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar 1-12%R.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to write a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar Dry 1-12%L.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
cannot open directory E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles (No such file or directory)
AudioDiskstream 3354: cannot write to disk
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [ERROR]: AudioDiskstream "Guitar Dry": cannot flush captured data to disk!
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to flush a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar Dry 1-12%L.wav)
2023-04-30T07:32:22 [WARNING]: attempt to flush a non-writable audio file source (E:\music\recordings\Purgatoire Version Ordinateur\3 - Ringurgite\interchange\3 - Ringurgité\audiofiles\Guitar Dry 1-12%R.wav)

I think it may have something to do with the “é” character in my session name.
When i rename the session and the interchange folder to something without special characters the bug seems to go away.

#2

Something happened to the disk where the session is stored. It either failed and/or got remounted in read-only mode or it failed.

Just a guess, because I don’t really know much about Windows. But the problem is outside of Ardour, not inside it.

#3

What file-system does disk E:\ have? Can it natively handle case-senstive files? and accents like é?

Ardour sessions cannot usually live on disks using the VFAT filesystem (which is a common default for external USB drives). For Windows prefer NTFS or ExFAT.

#4

The drive is NTFS, and I always recorded on that drive.
When it happens, restarting ardour solve the problem, until it appears again.
On windows, when a file is open for writing, it’s locked until closed.
I think there’s something in ardour that does not close the file correctly in a specific situation.

I’m currently fine since I found the workaround, but it took me a while to understand.

#5

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