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3.5.2 Formatting an SD Card With the MxFFS Format
Before a MOBOTIX camera can store image and video sequences on an SD card, it
needs to be formatted as MxFFS (SD cards delivered with MOBOTIX cameras are
already MxFFS-formatted).
Follow these steps to format a storage device (Admin Menu> Storage on Exter-
nal File Server/ Flash Device dialog):
1) Make sure that an SD card is in the
SD card slot of the MOBOTIX cam-
era.
2) Click on the Options button behind
SD Flash Card.
3) Select the
Quick Format option in
the next dialog and click OK.
The
Safe Format option will make
sure that the data on the SD card is
overwritten completely so that the data cannot be recovered in any way.
Please note, however, that the formatting process with this option takes
much longer (several hours) than when using the
Quick Format option (a few
minutes).
4) Enter the user name and password
of a user of the admins group in the
dialog that opens and click on OK.
The MOBOTIX camera starts format-
ting the SD card. It usually takes
between 5 to 12 minutes to format
an 8GB SD 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 SD card for record-
ing (see next section).
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Follow these steps to for-
mat an SD card in Admin
Menu> Storage on Ex-
ternal File Server/
Flash Device
The Safe Formatting op-
tion takes several hours.
You can also use suitable
applications on Windows,
Linux and Mac OS X com-
puters to safely format
the SD card.
Caution
Make sure that you always wait until the formatting process has
been completed before accessing the camera again. This usually
takes only several minutes, but it may take several hours when
using the
Safe Formatting option! You can only access the SD card
once MxFFS formatting has completed!