A few days ago, I got myself a new A1. Over the past few days, I’ve been printing without any issues, but I noticed something odd. After every print, more storage was taken up. I thought this was weird because timelapse has been off the whole time, so I turned it on, and then deleted the timelapse after the next print, and the storage that it took up was still reserved. After about 7 prints, I’ve gone up to 5 GB of storage used. I have no idea what’s filling up my storage so fast/why is it filling up at the rate that it is. If anyone knows how to fix this, the help would be greatly appreciated.
My slicer settings have been on default, aside from turning tree supports on.
Are you talking about the SD card? If so, every print gets stored there so you can re-print it whenever you want. Just delete what you don’t want or you can also just reformat the card.
It’s not the G-codes being stored because it was even happening before I put any new files on it, just using the ones that came pre-installed. I think it has something to do with timelapse footage being taken, but I cannot access it. Also, it’s using more storage space in the middle of the print, with at the start of one of my prints it was at 4.4 GB, but by the end it was at 4.8 GB. I think I’ll try to get a micro SD to USB converter so that I can plug it into my PC and try to skim the files manually to see what’s there and if it is taking unformatted timelapse footage even when the setting for it is off.
Thanks for trying to help anyway
Also, to add to my suspicion that it’s a timelapse issue, every time I’m printing, the little recording symbol is on the screen even when timelapse is disabled.
Update: I still haven’t found a solution to the issue, but it seems to have slowed down by turning video off in the settings. I was reading more into what gets stored onto the micro SD, and one of the things is log files, but most places say that theirs a limit to how much storage is taken up by them around 700Mb but I’m still having more storage taken up every print outside of the G-code, so ill make another post if it stops due to the limit on log files is reached, if that does happen to be whats still taking up a decent portion of my storage.
I dont want to sound snarky, but what do you think the SD card is for?
if you look, its got more than just gcode and log files.
Just ignore it or get a bigger sd card if you are worried about it. I popped a 128GB samsung high endurance in mine that i had laying around from a dead Dash Cam. Let it do it’s thing.
I understand that the SD card is for storing the data related to the printer, it’s just that it’s filling faster than I would think, and much faster than the one I had for my previous printer. I was just wondering what is causing it to fill up at such a fast rate.
I did make sure to turn off the video setting a few days after the storage started to fill fast, and then it slowed but kept filling, I think it has stopped at this point though due to the log files reaching their max, I just wish that because your able to have your printer take video on its own camera, you should be able to access those through the studio app
Thanks for the help
