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HandyAvi 4.3 User’s Manual
Recycle files in order to limit disk space usage
Click this button to bring up the "Recycle Files" panel:
This panel controls File Recycling.
File Recycling applies ONLY to the Time-Lapse and Motion-Detect capture modes. When file
recycling is active, and you are using either the Motion-Detect or Time-Lapse mode, the system
will create and use one new file every day up to the "Use at most N files" value where N is the
number of files you want to use.
Example of use: Say you enter a file name of "A.avi" into the "Output File" name field of the
"Motion Detect Movie Setup" panel. If "Use file recycling" is checked, then, when you hit the Start
button in the "Motion Detect Movie Setup" (See page 39) panel, the file name will be
automatically changed to "A-0001.avi" and that will be used as the first file. At midnight, that file
will be closed and a new file with the name "A-0002.avi" will be created and used. At midnight
each night, a new file will be generated up to the "Use at most" number you entered. In this case,
we are using 3 files so the third file used will be named "A-0003.avi". When midnight arrives, the
file name will then be changed to "A-0001.avi", i.e., it will be recycled (overwritten.) At midnight
each night, the next file will be used (overwritten.) This way, you should never generate more
than three files and your disk should never fill up.
You might wish to keep 2 weeks of data or 14 files for normal business operations.
Note that the OLDEST file is always selected for reuse. The "Date Modified" date is used to
determine this. If you generate your own files and they are created out of order, they will still be
used in date order not file name order.
Use file recycling - File recycling is active only when this box is checked.
Use at most N files - Enter the number of files you wish to use as your set of recycling files. The
minimum number of files allowed is 2. There is no maximum number but you should limit the
number to something reasonable. (Maximum AVI file size is 2 Gigabytes. Normally your files will
not get this big. If you have 100 Gigabytes of disk space available, then you could set N to 50
and you would not exceed the 100 Gigabytes available.)
Help - Brings up this help window that describes file recycling.
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