After 30 days

[CodyG]

Why do every 30 days do you have to eject the SD card and copy/paste recordings elsewhere. That way the direct storage access allows another 30 days of viewing. Why can't you just have a setting that starts your 30 days over and not have to go through the trouble of  ejecting SD card, deleting, rebooting etc. 

[StephenB]

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@CodyG wrote:

Why do every 30 days do you have to eject the SD card and copy/paste recordings elsewhere. That way the direct storage access allows another 30 days of viewing. Why can't you just have a setting that starts your 30 days over and not have to go through the trouble of  ejecting SD card, deleting, rebooting etc. 

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You don't have to eject the card every 30 days. The app only shows the most recent 30 days.  But generally there are older videos on the card- to see them you do need to eject the card and put it into a PC.  But you don't need to delete or reboot unless you want to.

Do you have "overwrite automatically" enabled?

Note I am still on the "Library" experience - managing retention on the microSD with the new "Feed" experience might be a bit different.

[CodyG]

Stephen,

I use a 1Tb SD card and choose to store locally along with port forwarding setup to see outside my network. I work in IT as a profession so technology is kinda my thing.  

To answer your question, no I don't have overwrite enabled because my base station (VMB500r6) says it can handle up to 2tb SD card. I use a 1tb card, so no need to have overwrite enabled as I haven't never got even close to filling it up before I have to redo everything.

I know the library only gives you 30 days of viewing, however once I hit 30 days, my Arlo product (Arlo Ultra) cameras stop recording anything past that. When there's nothing before that 30 days even on the card.. so yeah I have to redo my SD card every 30 days now... And to note admins, after the latest update to my base station (1.20.4.0_1367_38740e8) I'm unable to see ANY videos in my library!  Literally every time I turn around I'm having to mess with this damn thing.  I'll never buy another Arlo product nor will I ever recommend, in fact I will discourage anyone from buying Arlo. Whether it be from word of mouth to my 1,000's of followers on Social Media. 

[StephenB]

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@CodyG wrote:

I use a 1Tb SD card 

FWIW, my own microSD card is much smaller ( 128 GB).  

Do you have another card available that you could try?  I have seen some other posts from people having trouble with 1 TB cards.