How do I tell Zoneminder that events no longer exist? Or to update after manual file deletion?

[BaconButty]

Hi,

I couldn't really get what I wanted to do easily with Zoneminders built in deletion function, so I'm running a script once an hour that deletes the oldest files in the events folder if it's over a certain size.

This is working really well, but the issue is that Zoneminder obviously has a store that the events happened, and so I have a list of events with no data. How can I tell Zoneminder to update and remove these events?

[knight-of-ni]

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sudo zmaudit.pl

NOTE: We recommend all users run zmaudit via cron on a schedule, rather than enable it within zoneminder under options. I've found running it once a week is sufficient for my purposes. ymmv

[BaconButty]

Thanks for the reply!

This runs and this is the output:

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12/06/20 16:19:45.548278 zmaudit[52996].INF [main:199] [Auditing All Storage Areas]
Found orphaned frame records for event '191', deleting
Found orphaned frame records for event '474', deleting
Found orphaned frame records for event '475', deleting
12/06/20 16:19:47.974543 zmaudit[52996].INF [main:199] [Auditing All Storage Areas]
Deleted 0 log table entries by time

So it's doing something, but all the events are still showing in the web interface that I've deleted.

EDIT: I think I might know what the problem is. I accidentally deleted the default storage area from my list of storages and I haven't been able to get it back. Is the audit ignoring the default events folder because it's not in my list of storages?

[BaconButty]

Finally have zoneminder doing what I wanted and started looking through the settings to see if there's anything I missed and I found:



I'm guessing this is why audit wouldn't work for me (the files where not this old). I need to wait for me storage to max out again, I'll retry this when it does.