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On Tuesday 14 August 2007 13:26, Rob Beard wrote: > Maybe I haven't set it up right, it certainly fills the hard drive on > my machine. I'm only using motion to grab a snap shot, add the > date/time and a bit of text onto the image and then leave the image in > another location for uploading via FTP. Still it does that really > well. I've setup a cron job to prune the leftover files every hour so > I'm not so bothered about it leaving a load of files lying around. In > fact it might be handy to keep copies of these files in the future (in > case the presenters in the studio do anything funny). > > I'd certainly say Motion is much better than something I tried a > couple of years back which was some complicated motion capture app > which had a complicated web interface to set it up (can't remember the > name of it). > > Rob How often is it taking the snapshots? What size/format are they? I guess for studio use, then you may well prefer to have higher quality and more regular images - but yes, they will fill a drive if you have high settings! As you are doing - using ftp to transfer to another location - is what I do with mine as well. Using the mo -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html