I love my Flip Ultra HD Video Camera so much that I’m running out of hard drive space on my computer. It’s an amazing little device. I shot, edited, and uploaded the following video to YouTube in less than 1/2 hour.
Context: I’m at Epcot. More Insider Disney Tips! It was the last leg on a weeklong trip of legal conferences.
So I submitted this ticket to the wonderful people at Flip:
Hi Folks:
I’m running out of space on my computer and need to move some of the video to an external device. However, I would like to move the metadata along with it so that I can use Flipshare and leverage my organization and folders, etc.
My understanding is that if I simply move the video files to the external device without touching Flipshare, I will break all sorts of links.
What’s the best practice for this?
Thanks so much!
They responded one hour later:
Hello,
Thank you for your response.
To reroute your FlipShare library, please try the following:
1. Launch the FlipShare application
2. Click on the ‘File’ header and select ‘Preferences’
3. Click on the ‘Library’ tab and click on ‘Change location’
4. Reroute your library to the drive of your choice.
5. Then Click on ‘OK’
Were you able to do so? Please note that FlipShare does not support networked drives, when rerouting your library please ensure that you have not selected a networked drive.
Please do not hesitate to contact us further.
Thank you,
Flip Video Support
I wrote back to them with this:
Thanks very much for your prompt reply. I repointed the library and it appears everything is being transfered over now.
However, does this mean that I can only have one library?
What I’d really like to do is archive my existing library to the external drive, and start with a fresh new library on my computer.
How can I accomplish this?
Still awaiting response, will let you know how this plays out!
Nothing back on this? I have the same issue.
So, did you ever get a response regarding your external hard drive issue? I just got a Flip Camera and will be getting an external hard drive for Christmas (yes, I’m one of those who has to know all my Christmas gifts beforehand!). The reason for this is my other favorite “toy” is my Canon Rebel XTi and I take a LOT of shots with it. I am concerned about filling up my hard drive or computer crashing and losing all those memories. I figured since I’m finally adding video to the mix, I better get an external hard drive. I’d be in the same boat as you are, wanting to archive my old videos and have new ones on my computer. Would you be so kind as to let me know their response (if you ever got one?)
Thanks!
Jen
I did hear back and forgot to post the response. Ooops!
Here’s essentially what you have to do:
Copy everything in the Flipshare Library folder over to an external drive. The whole folder. I suggest renaming the folder:
2010-04 through 2010-12 Flipshare Archive
Then, create a new empty folder somewhere on your local system and point the flipshare folder to it.
Thanks for that! I found this link to be helpful as well: http://www6.nohold.net/CiscoFlip/GetArticle.aspx?docid=726681d3321d47e29ed33ee1e988bdfe_KB20624_EN_v1.xml&pid=3&converted=0
It takes a while, because you have to export each video and the originals also stay in the FlipShare on the PC until you manually delete them, but for computer idiots like me, it definitely worked! I’m too afraid of messing something up.