Bromley47

Are you sure you have made the link in your external drive to the media folder and not to /var/www/html ? That top level folder should remain on the SD...

These are the last few lines form the log :- {2020/06/06 08:47:24} h264 buffers set to recommended 1 {2020/06/06 08:47:24} Set up internal detect width=82 height=61 {2020/06/06 08:54:56} Finished boxing...

Ref your comment re making the link to the media folder the following is from raspimjpeg:- base_path /var/www/html preview_path /dev/shm/mjpeg/cam.jpg image_path /var/www/html/media/im_%i_%Y%M%D_%h%m%s.jpg lapse_path /var/www/html/media/tl_%i_%t_%Y%M%D_%h%m%s.jpg video_path /var/www/html/media/vi_%v_%Y%M%D_%h%m%s.mp4 status_file /dev/shm/mjpeg/status_mjpeg.txt control_file /var/www/html/FIFO...