Bi running out of space

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What am i doing wrong here. I have a 128gb sd drive and an 8tb normal drive. Both say they are full. How can i set bi to delete the recordings after a few weeks
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Uncheck the "limit clip age" and let BI handle it as a space issue only. What is the setting for your "stored" folder? Again, just limit space and set it to delete. Leave about 10% free space since it can run over a little due to file sizes. Use the "snipping tool" in Windoohs, not a cell phone, to get screen captures.
 

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Why does everyone feel the need to mess around with the default BlueIris folders? You have changed the 'New' folder to the same location as the database. It should have thrown an error. This is likely the problem.

Database: C:\BlueIris\db
New: C:\BlueIris\New
Stored: D:\Stored

Are you recording continuously? Don't use stored. Just have your new folder on your D drive, and set the limit size to 90% of the 8TB.

Database: C:\BlueIris\db
New: D:\New
 
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Are the rest of my settings ok from what you can see on screenshot
 

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Again.. don't bother using stored. Just have your new folder on your D drive, and set the limit size to 90% of the 8TB. (Note, 8TB has 7450 GB usable, so set the limit to around 6706MB. You can probably set it higher, you may not need 10% free on such a large drive).
Change the 'Move to folder' to 'Delete' instead.
Also uncheck the limit clip age.
This will have the cameras writing directly to the 8TB hard drive, and deleting the oldest files once the drive is 90% full.

Database: C:\BlueIris\db
Alerts: C:\BlueIris\Alerts
New: D:\New (or this can be just D:\ if you have nothing else on it like I'm doing).
 
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I watched the Clip and Storage video as I’ve got problems with Storage and the video below could be a reason why people are changing the db and New paths to be the same? Certainly if I hadn’t have seen this thread and just watched the video I may well have set them to the same db location.

 

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I watched the Clip and Storage video as I’ve got problems with Storage and the video below could be a reason why people are changing the db and New paths to be the same? Certainly if I hadn’t have seen this thread and just watched the video I may well have set them to the same db location.

Uhg, I put in the description on the video about my error changing the db path. As of today I'm taking down this video as its causing too much confusion. I will re-record that part (or maybe the entire video) soon... heck maybe today
 

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@Dasstrum, sorry I didn't look at the comments so never realised that there was a correction, once again apologies.

I don't think think you need to re-record it, maybe just flash up some text at the relevant bits so that idiots like me who don't read the comments will be suitably informed? :)
 

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@Dasstrum, sorry I didn't look at the comments so never realised that there was a correction, once again apologies.

I don't think think you need to re-record it, maybe just flash up some text at the relevant bits so that idiots like me who don't read the comments will be suitably informed? :)
AHA!!!!!! I found my old .fbr (Flashback pro) files for this video! This makes it a LOT easier editing the video. I was going to do youtube annotations but I don't think they show on mobile. I remember reading about it somewhere and I thought they removed them. Anyways... I'll try and get this video back up today with the corrections
 

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Again.. don't bother using stored. Just have your new folder on your D drive, and set the limit size to 90% of the 8TB. (Note, 8TB has 7450 GB usable, so set the limit to around 6706MB. You can probably set it higher, you may not need 10% free on such a large drive).
Change the 'Move to folder' to 'Delete' instead.
Also uncheck the limit clip age.
This will have the cameras writing directly to the 8TB hard drive, and deleting the oldest files once the drive is 90% full.

Database: C:\BlueIris\db
Alerts: C:\BlueIris\Alerts
New: D:\New (or this can be just D:\ if you have nothing else on it like I'm doing).
I have a system recording to an 8 TB WD Purple drive. This is my configuration, which leaves extremely little unallocated space (just 50 GB!).





It actually works great. Even though I only have 50 GB unallocated (less than 1% of the drive's capacity), BI ends up leaving about 150 GB (2%) free.

It is 17 cameras all recording continuously with Combine & Cut set to 1 hour. Each clip is between 100-4600 MB in size (some streams are very high bit rate, some are very low). Total space for one hour is between 36 and 38 GB depending on time of day.

 

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This would all be so much easier if the digital storage industry didn't use metric abbreviations with their NON-METRIC units.
 
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