Formatting The Microsd Card - Mobotix D16 DualDome Manual

D16 Camera Manual: Operating the Camera
Format SD card:
Admin Menu > Storage
on External File Server
/ Flash Device
The Secure deletion –
Slow option takes several
hours. You can also use
suitable applications on
Windows, Linux/UNIX and
Mac OS X/macOS systems
to repartition and safely
erase the SD card.
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3.5.2 Formatting the MicroSD Card

Before a MOBOTIX camera can store image and video sequences on a MicroSD card, the card
needs to be formatted as MxFFS (MicroSD cards supplied by MOBOTIX are already MxFFS-
formatted). The following steps are necessary to format a storage device (Admin Menu >
Storage on External File Server / Flash Device):
1. Make sure that there is a MicroSD card in the card slot of the MOBOTIX camera.
2. Click Format in the SD Memory Card line.
3. Note down the characters shown in the
Encryption password field or enter your
own password. Next, click OK.
Note: The Secure deletion – Slow option
will ensure that any data on the MicroSD
card is overwritten completely so that the
data cannot be recovered in any way.
However, keep in mind that this kind of safe
formatting takes considerably more time.
4. In the next dialog box, enter the user name
and the password of a user of the admins
group and click OK to confirm.
The MOBOTIX camera now starts formatting
the card. It takes 5 to 12 minutes to format
an 8 GB MicroSD card if the Secure dele-
tion – Slow option is disabled. If Secure
deletion – Slow is enabled, this may take
anywhere between 3 and 14 hours.
Once the formatting has been completed, you can activate the MicroSD card for recording
(see next section).
Make sure that you always wait until the formatting process has been completed before
accessing the camera again. If the Secure deletion – Slow option is disabled, this usually
takes just a few minutes. You can only access the MicroSD card once MxFFS formatting
has been completed.
Formatting with the Secure deletion – Slow option enabled takes several hours. You can
also use suitable applications on Windows, Linux/UNIX and Mac OS X/macOS systems
to repartition and safely erase the MicroSD card.
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