By nature, Screencast-o-matic files are very large; if you have many of them, can can easily fill up disk or cloud storage space unnecessarily. Fortunately, Screencast-o-matic has a feature that allows you to export compressed archive files, which you can save in your UVM OneDrive cloud storage (or on an external hard drive), then delete the large files from Screencast-o-matic. If you ever need to edit one of these videos, you’ll simply import the compressed file back into Screencast-o-matic.
Step 1: Export old projects to a compressed archive file (SOMREC) & Delete old projects to recover disk space
Follow 6 steps to create archive files:
- Turn on Manage Video Projects by ticking the box.
- Select the project(s) you which to export by clicking once on each project thumbnail (the selected projects will be highlighted with a blue border).
- Click the Export button, then click Browse and navigate to your OneDrive folder.
- Click OK and note the progress bar at the top of the Screencast-o-matic screen.
- NOTE – if you see an error. in the progress bar, choose retry from the drop-down menu.
- Use the OneDrive “Files on Demand” feature to ensure these exported .somrec files are saved solely in cloud storage (and not synced with your hard drive).
Then follow 5 steps to delete old and archived projects:
- Verify that you’ve backed up the projects you want to retain in your OneDrive first! (See above.)
- Turn on Manage Video Projects by ticking the box.
- Select the project(s) you which to export by clicking once on each project thumbnail (the selected projects will be highlighted with a blue border).
- Click the Delete button.
- Click the “# Deleted” drop down and select “Commit Deletes” then “Delete these video projects now?” to completely remove the archived project and recover the temp disk space.
Step 2: Restore archived projects
- Click the Import button.
- Navigate to the OneDrive location where you saved your .somrec archive files (see above). Select the .somrec file you wish to restore and choose Open.
- Wait for the file to be downloaded and restored into Screencast-o-matic.
- Carry on editing the project as you did previously.