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• @laird@hachyderm.io 2026-07-18 17:31

  I've already upgraded 4 systems, I'll do a couple more this morning and then maybe hit two birds with one stone and write a new "import and preprocess video and still images from cameras" tool that gives the open-source flavor of my employer's product a workout. I should really be more familiar with it, and it's probably the right tool for this job. Ish. The problem is that my NAS isn't *really* fast enough to let me edit 8K or 12K video directly from network shares, and I don't usually want to wait for an ~hour for a TB of video to slowly copy from a flash card onto the network before I can edit things. But I don't have enough local SSD space to keep *everything* local. And telling Resolve to start editing when files are on flash drives means that the projects break. Plan: - Produce a tree full of symlinks on a local disk. - When a new video is detected on an external drive, first add a symlink that points directly to the external drive. - Then copy the video from the flash drive onto a local SSD. When complete, update the symlink. - Then copy the video from the local SSD onto the NAS. *Don't* update the symlink. - When the local video-storage SSD is nearling full, delete videos from the SSD, after verifying that they've been copied to the NAS correctly. Update symlinks to point to the NAS copy. This is mostly pretty straightforward, but getting the details right and not losing data is (as always) the fun part.

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