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D14D Camera Manual: Operating The Camera
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Formatting The Card
3.5.2
Before a MOBOTIX camera can store image and video sequences on a MicroSD card, it
needs to be formatted as MxFFS (MicroSD cards delivered with MOBOTIX cameras are
already MxFFS-formatted). The following steps are necessary to format a storage device
(
Admin Menu > Storage on external File Server / Flash Device
):
Make sure that the MicroSD card is in the card slot of the MOBOTIX camera.
1.
Click on the
2.
Format
button under
SD
Flash Card
.
Select the
3.
Quick Format
option and
confirm by clicking on
OK
.
Hint
: In contrast to the Quick Format
option, the
Safe Format
option will make
sure that the data on the MicroSD card
is overwritten completely so that the data
cannot be recovered in any way.
However, keep in mind that the Safe
Format takes considerably more time.
Enter the user name and the password
4.
of a user of the
admins
group in the
dialog that opens and click on
OK
to
confirm.
The MOBOTIX camera now starts
formatting the card. It usually takes
between 5 and 12 minutes to format
an 8 GB MicroSD card using the
Quick
Format option and 3 to 14 hours using
the
Safe Format
option.
Once the formatting has been completed, you can activate the MicroSD card for recording
(see next section).
Caution
Make sure that you always wait until the formatting process has been completed
before accessing the camera again. This usually takes only a few minutes when
using the
Quick Format
option. You can access the MicroSD card only after MxFFS
formatting has been completed.
The
Safe Format
option takes several hours. You can also use suitable applications on
Windows, Linux/UNIX, and Mac OS X computers to safely format the MicroSD card.
Formatting the card:
Admin Menu > Storage on
External File Server /
Flash Device
The Safe Format
option takes several
hours. You can also use
suitable applications on
Windows, Linux/UNIX,
and Mac OS X computers
to safely format the
MicroSD card.
