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7 <section id="sn-closing-a-session">
8 <title>Closing a Session</title>
10 Ardour only allows you to work on one session at a time (although your
11 computer may be able to run multiple instances of Ardour at one time).
12 This means that to work on a different session than the current one, you
13 will be forced to close the current session. You can either
19 <menuchoice> <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
20 <guisubmenu>Close</guisubmenu> </menuchoice> will close the current
27 <menuchoice> <guimenu>Session</guimenu>
28 <guisubmenu>Open</guisubmenu> </menuchoice> will prompt you for the
29 name of a session to work on, and will then close the current
36 <menuchoice> <guimenu>Session</guimenu> <guisubmenu>New</guisubmenu>
37 </menuchoice> will open the New Session dialog to collect
38 configuration information for the new session, and will then close
45 Whenever a session is closed but has been modified since last saved, the
46 Save dialog will appear.
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54 You have three options when this dialog appears:
59 Save the session before closing it
64 Close the session without saving it
69 Do not close the session
75 If you choose the final option, whatever operation initiated the
76 closing of the session will be stopped. For example, if you were
77 loading a new session while working on an existing one, no new session
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