Delete recordings from a camera

Last modified: Thursday September 29, 2022.

Due to privacy or regulatory concerns, you might need to delete video recordings from a camera connected to your Alta Video video management system. This could be to delete all recordings, or to delete all recordings older than a specified number of days.

Prerequisites

Only users that have edit permissions for Devices can delete recordings.

Task — Delete recordings

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Select the camera of interest.

    Use the Search for devices button search to find the camera in large lists of devices.

  3. From the Settings area, click Edit settings.
  4. Select Maintenance.
  5. Click Delete recordings.
    The Delete recordings dialog is displayed.
  6. Choose to either delete All recordings for, or to delete recordings Older than x days.
    If deleting only older files, specify the number of days before which you want recordings removed.
  7. Optionally, choose to Delete bookmarks and cloud shared recordings.
  8. Click Delete to remove the selected video recordings.