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Figure 20: Battery level alert.
D i s k S p a c e
The middle bar at the bottom of the UI is the disk space used/remaining and is indicated as
a teal and black bar, where teal is the amount used, and black is the amount available.
Contour ships with a 500GB Solid State Drive (SSD). A warning is displayed in the UI if the
remaining space is less than 50GB. In general, 30 minutes of scanning produces roughly
10GB of scan data, including pointclouds, raw data, and color camera images. We
recommend that you empty the hard drive at the end of each day or keep the color camera
save rate as low as possible to conserve space.
To free up space, you can delete scan data through the UI or manually delete scan folders
from the recordings folder in the desktop. If you manually delete, remember to empty the
trash to restore the disk space. If you continue scanning with low disk space, Contour will
automatically stop scanning to prevent completely filling the disk. This is because with no
free space the Ubuntu operating system may fail to boot, rendering the device inoperable.
Scan Tip:
It is important to establish a data management policy early on where
data is transferred from Contour to a backup system. Consider keeping a
blank USB 3.0 flash drive with your Contour when need to make room for
more scanning while in the field.