ok, I have been using Ardour for a number of months now,
recently I built a new Windows OS onto my new SSD stick and kept my other hard drive connected where all my files I have created are saved.
so I installed Ardour yesterday and made my audio file this morning. When I attempted to export it as a .wav and .mp3 file to my D:\ it crashed 2 times at about 80% complete. it had analyze and export selected, creating 2 files at the same time.
thankfully it had recovered it (I must remember to save before exporting)
later today I decided to export it to the same hard drive that Ardour is installed to and it successfully exported it. only thing is that I installed the updated version too before I did this 3rd attempt.
anyone have an explanation?