Blue Iris Clips & Archiving - not deleting old clips

[Anthony Barnes]

Hello,

I had multiple cameras recording into the 'Stored' folder as MP4s for a long period of time. After awhile, it became difficult to manage and find clips for playback due to the sheer size. I decided to organize the cameras to direct record into departments (the system is in a business). It was no problem assigning the cameras to record into the new folders (renamed the Aux 1, 2, etc to desired name and location) and specifying the size limits.

However, I copied old clips for each camera and placed them into the new folders in order to keep the system organized but the problem is Blue Iris is not recognizing the old clips that I placed into the folder so it is not deleting them. For example, I set one of the folders to 800GB and I copied a little over 800GB into this folder assuming Blue Iris would delete the old clips (I specified the day range to 2 days just to be sure it would abide by the size limit). Blue Iris only recognizes the newly recorded clips from when I first specified the new recording destination for each camera and now the disk space is full causing corrupted clips, etc.

Anyone else have this problem? The limit size folder size I specified is correct as I divided my Stored folder size by the number of new groups to know the appropriate allocation.

 

[fenderman]

Hello,

I had multiple cameras recording into the 'Stored' folder as MP4s for a long period of time. After awhile, it became difficult to manage and find clips for playback due to the sheer size. I decided to organize the cameras to direct record into departments (the system is in a business). It was no problem assigning the cameras to record into the new folders (renamed the Aux 1, 2, etc to desired name and location) and specifying the size limits.

However, I copied old clips for each camera and placed them into the new folders in order to keep the system organized but the problem is Blue Iris is not recognizing the old clips that I placed into the folder so it is not deleting them. For example, I set one of the folders to 800GB and I copied a little over 800GB into this folder assuming Blue Iris would delete the old clips (I specified the day range to 2 days just to be sure it would abide by the size limit). Blue Iris only recognizes the newly recorded clips from when I first specified the new recording destination for each camera and now the disk space is full causing corrupted clips, etc.

Anyone else have this problem? The limit size folder size I specified is correct as I divided my Stored folder size by the number of new groups to know the appropriate allocation.

You need to rebuild the database after you do that...otherwise BI will not know what to delete.
never use a day limit, there is no point...always use a space limit..
you should be using blue iris to find and replay clips...that is the entire point of a vms, looking through folders is silly and a waste of time

 

[Anthony Barnes]

You need to rebuild the database after you do that...otherwise BI will not know what to delete.
never use a day limit, there is no point...always use a space limit..
you should be using blue iris to find and replay clips...that is the entire point of a vms, looking through folders is silly and a waste of time

Thank you for your response, the reason we are recording into folders is because we have them as shared folders on our LAN so upper management can access clips from their desktops without having to navigate or operate the Blue Iris Software.

 

[fenderman]

Thank you for your response, the reason we are recording into folders is because we have them as shared folders on our LAN so upper management can access clips from their desktops without having to navigate or operate the Blue Iris Software.

They can use UI3 - the webserver interface....see the thread on it. No need to fiddle through files in folders...it makes no sense.