FTP Snapshot Folders

[shibuminet]

Does anyone know how to configure FTP snapshots to save to only one folder and not create a new folder every minute? During testing the snapshots would upload to the FTP server but were creating new folders every minute. This will prove to very challenging in trying to pull the image to present on a web page.

Camera Info
Amcrest IP2M-850EB
Software Version2.400.AC01.0.R.T4.2022.3N.NR, build : 2016-08-04
WEB Version3.2.1.329959
ONVIF Version2.4.2
PTZ Version2.04.28.RHNTHCB

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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[shibuminet]

I received a message back from Amcrest Tech support stating the following:

Unfortunately, this is not an option at the moment. Our R&D team is working on giving the FTP folder a better & more personalized configuration for next firmware releases but, as I said, the folder structure is the only one available at the moment

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Has anyone out there written a script they would like to share that will copy the images from these directories into a single directory on a Windows server?

Thanks!

[zephxiii]

I am using other brand camera at work, and have Amcrest at home (trialing). Both are recording to FTP.

Other brand camera saves all files into same folder on FTP with time stamped file names. This much much easier to use than having to dig down through a bunch of folders which is highly unproductive.

However there is a script you can use in windows:

For open cmd line:

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FOR /R "C:\Source Folder" %i IN (*.jpg) DO MOVE "%i" "C:\Staging Folder"

for batch file:

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FOR /R "C:\Source Folder" %%i IN (*.jpg) DO MOVE %"%i" "C:\Staging Folder"

The difference between the two being %i and %%i

[jasonallen19]

Just ran into this issue. It's beyond tedious to have to search through folders for individual photos.

It's so unintuitive as to render the entire feature useless. I'm just going to disable snapshots and forget about it.... at least until they patch it to dump all photos to a single folder or something.

[longedge]

TBH I find the naming convention useful. I can go straight to a day and hour to search for a snapshot. With the latest firmware folders don't go any 'finer' than the hour.

If it's of interest, I've got the empty folders problem nailed with a batch file, so simple and works like a dream. I only wish that all problems were as easy to solve

My NAS folder for snapshots from all three cameras is mapped to Z: and the following on my desktop named delete_folders.bat

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Z:

for /f "delims=" %%d in ('dir /s /b /ad ^| sort /r') do rd "%%d"

edit - Welcome to the forum

[Sequoia1321]

Yes. I agree this is a problem. Folders structure shouldn't be so tedious. Prefer it be a folder for each day, no need for hours folder as they are time stamped.