clips and archiving

I have multiple BI installs at a number of sites and the requirements dictate that video is stored for a certain number of months. To do this, I physically swap the hard drive where "Stored" clips go and then reuse the drives after the retention period has expired. However, while the hard drive...

Gripe warning: I dont understand why BI has option to limit space allocated on a per-folder basis. That isn't the reality for folders storing video, which is dynamic. Folders do not have space constraints in normal PC situations, the drives do. I'd be limiting my space if I limited say folders...

I have a cam that is recording 24/7 to an SSD fast drive that is not backed up in the 'New' folder, because I don't need those clips for very long (no more than a week). I also have the motion sensor setup, and it creates alerts that point to parts of the clips successfully. However, what I...

Blue Iris crashed on me earlier today (around 2:40PM) all cameras stopped recording so I rebooted the machine and now Blue Iris doesn't record when cameras are triggered. When I logged in to the machine here was the crashed state: After rebooting the machine I repaired the database and even...

I have a question on how the BI File saving, rotation works. Under Clips and Archiving there is a folder for the database (c:\BlueIris\db) and then there are folders for NEW, ALERTS and STORAGE. How does the rotation work for these options? I ask, because right now I don't have any files in the...

so as we all know when you install Blue Iris. the defult location of the Clips and archiving is "C:\BlueIris" I really don't want to use my C drive I have an SSD drive. so my D:\ drive is a 4tb when I change the path to D:\BlueIris\db it does not recored upon motion setting up a or...