Can I move Alerts from C: to V: without losing data?

[TheWaterbug]

I have BI storing everything on my giant V:\ drive except for db (about 4 GB) and Alerts (quota-ed at 80 GB), which I have on C:\, my comparatively tiny SSD boot drive. It's getting full, and BI is having to prune my Alerts, which also contain the .dat files for LPR.

Can I move the contents of Alerts from C: to V: and rebuild/repair/??? the database without losing all of my historical data?

 

[Bruce_H]

It should work, just change the location of the Alerts file to the other drive, stop BI and the BI service, copy all the alerts to the new location, start BI and do a Repair DB and you should be good to go. once it is all working you can go back and delete the old Alerts folder

 

[TheWaterbug]

It should work, just change the location of the Alerts file to the other drive, stop BI and the BI service, copy all the alerts to the new location, start BI and do a Repair DB and you should be good to go. once it is all working you can go back and delete the old Alerts folder

Thanks! That worked, including preserving all the integrations with the ALPR Database, which I'm pleasantly surprised at.

The only downside is that I'd formatted my V: drive with 1 MB clusters, assuming that it would only be storing multi-GB .bvr files. Now every one of my .dat and .jpg files is taking up a full MB, and my 80 GB Alerts folder on C: has grown to 250 GB on V:. But I suppose that's a reasonable trade.