Works great

My only gripe would be that I am on a very small SSD, yet I have a HUGE 4 Terabyte drive I could use to keep months of video on. But sadly it forces you to use the “Movies” folder. Just very dumb to lock you out of that control. I have found a way around it though through Automator:

Launch Automator. When prompted to choose a template for your workflow, select Calendar Alarm. In the workflow area, string together these three actions: Get Specified Finder Items, Get Folder Contents, and Copy Finder Items. For the first command, navigate to the Movies Folder and set it to pull from there. Ignore the middle command. Just leave it alone and keep the tick box unticked. On the last command set the folder you want the recordings to be copied to every day. I set mine to DropBox so I can have off site recording in case my iMac gets lifted if someone breaks in. Therefore I can still access the footage. Save the file. Calendar will launch. Select the new event and using the edit menu in the toolbar up top, go to Edit>Edit Event. Set to run at like 3 am or something.

Then make a new Calendar Alarm event. We are only going to change the last step in the list of commands:
Launch Automator. When prompted to choose a template for your workflow, select Calendar Alarm again. In the workflow area, string together these three actions: Get Specified Finder Items, Get Folder Contents, and Move Finder Items to Trash. Set the first command to pull from your original Movies folder since this is the folder you need cleared out every day to save space. Leave step two and step three alone. There are no parameters to put in here. Then simply repeat the Edit>Edit Event from previous and set it to run at like 6 am. This gives the system 3 hours to copy the footage over. More than enough time.

This will copy to another folder (like DropBox for off site back up) and then delete after the backup is done. The only pain is having to empty your Trash daily, but I likely do that anyway. Not an IDEAL solution, but it’s a heck of a lot better than having a full local SSD drive! I hope this helps. The developers really need to build in this functionality, but until then, my hacky solution will work for most people.

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