[SOLVED] Ardour doesn't want to clear junk

[The_Eighth]

Hello
A while ago I’ve noticed a small problem with Ardour ver. 5.12
I can’t delete junk files - Ardour just hangs once it reaches last junk file and that’s it.
What should I do?

Debian 9, 64bit.
16gb RAM, i7-4770

UPDATE: I guess, I kinda solved this problem…by opening each project’s snapshot and cleaning junk there first. Then I could clean junk in actual snapshot I’m working with.

[lordbullingdon]

How do you go about the process? The recommended (necessary?) procedure is as follows, I think:

1. Go to Editor List > Regions tab, right-click, then choose “Remove unused”.
2. Go to Session menu > Clean-up > Clean-up Unused Sources.
3. Restart Ardour and re-open the session you want to clean-up.
4. Go to Session menu > Clean-up > Flush Wastebasket.

[cooltehno]

To deactivate "dead" folder

Hi, everybody! I recently found useful function in Ardour to clean up unused sources. When I do that - all the unused files go to “dead” folder (which is in a main session folder). Every time I need to come there through the file manager and delete all files from “dead”. Is it possible to erase unused files straight from disk through clean up function without using “dead”?

[The_Eighth]

Well, unfortunately, removing unused regions before cleaning up unused sources as suggested by lordbullingdon wasn’t helpful. It’s still hangin after cleaning all the unused files. It looks like Ardour is “thinking too much” while doing this and I don’t know why this is happening.

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Ardour takes all session-snapshots of a session into account to check if any of those uses a file.

Are there perhaps any snapshots in the session-folder?

[The_Eighth]

Ardour takes all session-snapshots of a session into account to check if any of those uses a file.

Are there perhaps any snapshots in the session-folder?

Well yeah, there is one snapshot.

[The_Eighth]

UPDATE: I guess, I kinda solved this problem…by opening each project’s snapshot and cleaning junk there first. Then I could clean junk in actual snapshot I’m working with.