Tesla MODEL 3 2020 Owner's Manual page 95

Formatting the USB Flash Drive
To correctly save and retrieve video footage,
Model 3 requires the USB flash drive to be
formatted as FAT 32 (for Windows), MS-DOS
FAT (for Mac), ext3, or ext4. NTFS and exFAT
are not currently supported. In addition, the
USB flash drive must contain a base-level
folder called "TeslaCam" (without quotation
marks). Follow the steps below to prepare a
USB flash drive.
For MacOS:
1. Insert the USB flash drive into your
personal computer.
2. Navigate to Utilities > Disk Utility (or
conduct a Spotlight Search).
3. Select your flash drive in the left menu.
4. Navigate to Erase in the top menu
ribbon.
5. In the pop-up menu, select the correct
format (MS-DOS FAT) and click Erase.
NOTE: Selecting Erase removes all existing
content from your flash drive. If you have
content that you want to keep, you must
move it to a different device before erasing.
6. Once the flash drive is successfully
erased, navigate to Finder and select your
USB flash drive from the left menu. The
flash drive should not contain any files.
7. Right-click in the empty space of the
flash drive and select New Folder. A folder
appears in your flash drive space.
8. Right-click on the folder, select Rename,
and name the folder to "TeslaCam"
(without quotation marks). Click "Save".
This folder will contain all recent and saved
clips from Sentry Mode and Dashcam.
9. Properly eject the USB flash drive.
For Windows:
1. Insert the USB flash drive into your
personal computer.
2. Navigate to File Explorer.
3. Right-click on your USB flash drive and
select "Format...".
4. In the pop-up menu, under the File
System section, select "FAT 32".
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Dashcam
NOTE: You can also name your USB flash
drive (under Volume Label) for easier
recognition.
5. Check the Quick format box and click
Start.
6. Go back to File Explorer, click on your
flash drive, and right-click to create a
folder, or select New Folder in the top
menu.
7. Name the folder "TeslaCam" (without
quotation marks) and click Save. This folder
will contain all recent and saved clips from
Sentry Mode and Dashcam.
8. Properly eject the USB flash drive.
Once you have formatted the USB flash drive
and created the TeslaCam folder, insert it into
one of the front USB ports in Model 3. Do not
use the rear USB ports—they are for charging
only. It may take Model 3 up to 15 seconds to
recognize the flash drive. When recognized,
icons for Dashcam and Sentry Mode appear
at the top of your touchscreen (note that you
may need to enable Sentry Mode by touching
Controls > Safety & Security > Sentry Mode).
Model 3 is ready to record video.
Retrieving Footage
To retrieve video footage from the USB flash
drive, remove the flash drive from the front
USB port and use a personal computer or
other device to access the files. Navigate to
the TeslaCam folder.
Within the TeslaCam folder, there are three
sub-folders:
• Recent Clips - The footage in Recent Clips
continuously loops in 60-minute cycles
whenever the cameras are activated.
Therefore, footage is constantly overwritten
every hour unless you save it. When an
event is recorded, one video is recorded for
each of the front, rear, left, and right
cameras.
• Saved Clips - Contains all recordings that
you have manually saved using
page 92.
• Sentry Clips - Contains all footage from
Sentry Mode events which have been
automatically saved when an Alert or Alarm
state is triggered. The last 10 minutes of an
event's footage is saved and labeled with a
unique timestamp.
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