I am trying to save a project to a server. I do some of the work on my desktop and live recording on a laptop in another location. So I need the project to live on a server. If I just “save” there is no error message. then when I try to quit, it tells me that I have not saved and gives me a “save and quit” option. I take this and get an error message stating that Ardour could not save session. There are no error codes or othermessages. So I just quit and go to look at the server location and it looks like all the files are there, but if I try to open it, it is just an empty session or it acts like it’s not there depending on how I try to select it.
If I create the same session but just take all the default locations, (home directory) it works just fine.
Any help appreciated.
Note that Ardour sessions are case-sensitive, the file-system must also support that.
Furthermore audio files are usually directly mapped into memory (mmap on Linux/macOS, CreateFileMapping on Windows). So the network-file system must support this.
Check Ardour > Window > Log – and see if there are any messages when saving the file.
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PS. In general it is not recommended to use a NAS for audio-sessions, while you may have sufficient bandwidth, the throughput may be insufficient.
I save all sessions under Linux using NFS on my NAS server and everything works as a charm, including multitrack recording. My disk I/O subsystem had no performance issues. However, I have never tried smb protocol.