Moving flagged (stored) clips to a new machine

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Hi, in the process of testing Blue Iris on new Windows 11 install, only want to bring across the flagged/stored clips from existing, I copied them over but nothing shows up, have tried rebuiliding etc, no dice. Also found out the newer version of BI auto deletes stored above 20GB, that was a lesson learned, blew away 1TB of moved clips :facepalm: :lol:

Any suggestions welcome, would be nice to keep the stored clips for reference.
 
Never manually move/delete files from Blue Iris managed folders (this will corrupt the database).

Instead...
  1. Use the 'Special views' control to isolate the items you want.
  2. Ctrl-click the items you want, or type Ctrl-A to select them all
  3. Right-click a selected item, then select 'Move' for options
Stop the Blue Iris service on the new machine while you copy files.
Once the desired files are copied to the new machine, restart Blue Iris and perform a database Delete & Regenerate.
Or you can blow out the new machine's database by deleting folder C:\BlueIris\db before restarting the service.


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jaydeel said:
Never manually move/delete files from Blue Iris managed folders (this will corrupt the database).

Instead...
  1. Use the 'Special views' control to isolate the items you want.
  2. Ctrl-click the items you want, or type Ctrl-A to select them all
  3. Right-click a selected item, then select 'Move' for options
Stop the Blue Iris service on the new machine while you copy files.
Once the desired files are copied to the new machine, restart Blue Iris and perform a database Delete & Regenerate.
Or you can blow out the new machine's database by deleting folder C:\BlueIris\db before restarting the service.


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Thank you kindly for those instructions, I had no idea! :facepalm: Once 'copy only to...' is clicked then pick a folder presumably straight across network etc to new location? and all should be good. This will then keep formatting, properties, flagged/protected status and so on.

Just for reference, if there is a variation in versions, will this procedure still work OK. I am moving from 5.6.2.5 to 5.8.8.8 currently.
 
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jaydeel said:
Never manually move/delete files from Blue Iris managed folders (this will corrupt the database).

Instead...
  1. Use the 'Special views' control to isolate the items you want.
  2. Ctrl-click the items you want, or type Ctrl-A to select them all
  3. Right-click a selected item, then select 'Move' for options
Stop the Blue Iris service on the new machine while you copy files.
Once the desired files are copied to the new machine, restart Blue Iris and perform a database Delete & Regenerate.
Or you can blow out the new machine's database by deleting folder C:\BlueIris\db before restarting the service.


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OK, tried the Copy only to... then selected shared folder on network, error comes back as 'source file not found' even though all the clips playback fine? not sure why. Also tried to local folder, same error, unprotected the clips, still failed.
 
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OK, tried the Copy only to... then selected shared folder on network, error comes back as 'source file not found' even though all the clips playback fine? not sure why. Also tried to local folder, same error, unprotected the clips, still failed.
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Bummer. I don't have access to my computer at the moment to replicate your observations. I'll report back later...
 
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Once 'copy only to...' is clicked then pick a folder presumably straight across network etc to new location? and all should be good. This will then keep formatting, properties, flagged/protected status and so on.
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Some of these properties are recoverable, but only if the flagged/protected alerts have a JPG or DAT file. I've created a powershell script that takes advantage of this. Check out the thread to learn more.
 
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I'm running 5.9.3.2 and I Just successfully used Move > Copy only to on 3 selected files
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to both a local folder
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and a network folder
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You may need to email Ken at blueirissupport.
 
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I'm running 5.9.3.2 and I Just successfully used Move > Copy only to on 3 selected files
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to both a local folder
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and a network folder
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You may need to email Ken at blueirissupport.
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Thanks, sorry for delay, interesting, I am trying to move flagged video (*.bvr) clips which are between 1 to 4gb each, not sure if that would make a difference, guess I maybe need to update version. Also I need to select a large number of clips to get the full move menu displayed with copy showing.
 
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Thanks, sorry for delay, interesting, I am trying to move flagged video (*.bvr) clips which are between 1 to 4gb each, not sure if that would make a difference, guess I maybe need to update version. Also I need to select a large number of clips to get the full move menu displayed with copy showing.
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I copied *.bvr files today with no issues - to both local and network destinations. But I tried only 5 as a test. I don't think any exceeded 1GB.
 
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jaydeel said:
I copied *.bvr files today with no issues - to both local and network destinations. But I tried only 5 as a test. I don't think any exceeded 1GB.
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I think maybe next stop is to upgrade existing version, see if that resolves the error, go from there.
 
jaydeel said:
Some of these properties are recoverable, but only if the flagged/protected alerts have a JPG or DAT file. I've created a powershell script that takes advantage of this. Check out the thread to learn more.
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Just been looking at this, my 'alerts' folder is empty, although I do have flagged/protected video clips only, no jpeg images. I assume this means the powershell script is null and void for me personally?
 
Side note, I upgraded to latest stable release, error still persists when trying to move/copy flagged.
 
jaydeel said:
Maybe you have a permissions issue?

Just a thought - Are you using the 'local service' account in the Blue Iris service?
See section Administration > Testing the action set section for more info in the the Help PDF.
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Maybe, it is running as a service and as Admin. It shouldn't be that but :idk:
 
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