On 08/01/2012 12:57 PM, wes wrote: >> How do I go about locating that file? Was it even a file, or was it >> buffered in memory somewhere, and killing the instance removed it? > it is very possible it was all in memory. /tmp is a popular place for > programs to store temporary files (which are not always deleted). if you're > interested, you can also dig in by using tools like strace and /proc. > > use ps to find the pid of the transcription program. then, in a terminal, > do: > > ls -la /proc/(pid goes here)/fd > > that should give you a list of the files currently open by that process.
I see some interesting possibilities in /tmp. IIRC, transcribe uses pulse audio. There are two directories in /tmp that start with pulse-. When I have some time I'll dig into them. One of them is locked. I also see some files whose names I recognize. It doesn't make sense for at least one of them to be there. It's locked. It's an rtf file that opens with Wine Wordpad. I know where the original copy of that file is. No idea why this one would be here and be locked. Maybe a Wine thing. But, other than the two pulse- directories, nothing obviously related to a sound file. In /proc, I see mostly pipes and sockets. I also see inotify, /dev/nul, /home/rsteff.xsession-errors twice, and the file on which I am currently working. Next time I have an issue with multiple files playing back at the same time, I'll try this again and see what's different. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
