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Raspberry PI-TIMOLO ( PI-TImelapse, MOtion, LOwLight ) uses RPI picamera and OpenCV for Remote Headless Security Monitoring using Motion Tracking, Rclone Auto Sync files with remote storage services. Auto Twilight Transitions and Low Light Camera Settings. Panoramic images using PanTiltHat and More. This project is featured on GitHub Awesome software.
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symlink ability lost for motion pictures, not timelapses? #97

Closed blokdk closed 5 years ago

blokdk commented 5 years ago

Dear Mr. Pageau, I have started playing around with pi-timolo and transfer the files with rsync because I was/am more familiar with that than rclone. After transferring a lot of files I noticed that the recent folder was getting symlinks for the timelapses but not for the motion files. I had a look at the function definition in pi-timolo.py but could not figure out why this is happening.

Can you shed your light on it, please?

pablok

pageauc commented 5 years ago

What is probably happening is that the file locations for the symlinks are no longer there if you moved files This has happened to me when I tried renaming some folders. Easiest way is to delete all the symlinks in the recent/motion folder. Deleting symlinks will not delete the actual media/motion or media/timelapse image files in the folders. To clear the recent/motion folder symlinks

cd ~/pi-timolo/media/recent/motion
rm *

Then restart pi-timolo.py You should see new symlinks getting created. Image files will still be in media/motion sub folders

Note you may need to clear media/recent/motion or timelapse symlink files if you are deleting destination files that symlinks point to. This is a check on the web browser since it cannot display a symlink that does not have a destination file.

Let me know progress Regards Claude ...