delete of /var/lib/motioneye

[latimeria68]

Hi,
strange behaviour for me is that if you delete pictures or movies from webUI motioneye also deletes the folder /var/lib/motioneye; then if a picture or a movie is taken it creates the folder back again
can you replicate it?
Thanks

[ccrisan]

What's your root directory?

[latimeria68]

I was testing snapshots every ten minutes with one camera and I left /var/lib/motioneye; it creates /var/lib/motioneye/date-of-today/jpg1....jpg2.......When you choose "delete all pictures taken" also /var/lib/motioneye is deleted. Not yet tried with a complete different path, but maybe this is what it has to do.
Thanks

[ccrisan]

Yeap, that's the expected (not necessarily desired) behaviour. I will consider preventing removing the root directory though.

[electronicamystica]

I stumbled on the same issue resulting in motioneye refusing to start since the directory was missing.
The log files gave me some clarity here:
"CRITICAL: media directory "/home/pi/motioneye #/var/lib/motioneye" does not exist or is not writable"

[ccrisan]

Fixed with the latest commit. motionEye will create a .keep sentinel file in the root directory to make sure it never gets removed.