Day 12, happy new financial year!
The dash cam disagrees with us; last night when we tried to move the footage from the day onto the external hard drive, the transfer went really slowly. So I said that once it finished we’ll reformat the micro SD card and put the configuration files back onto it and it should be all good again. A few hours later the transfer finally finished and I went about hard reformatting the little card to an ExFAT format (as FAT32 was not available, and NTFS would definitely not work with the system).
Copied the config files back onto the card and plugged it back into the dash cam. Booted the dash cam and it spoke to us “Please check the SD card”. Damn.
Pulled it out, soft format again and copy the config files back on again. Please check the SD card. Not again!
Try something else, maybe it’s not seeing the card? “Please insert SD card”
Ok so it’s definitely seeing the card, but can’t read/access it.
I’ll save you the long story of “What the?” and “That can’t be right.”. In the end when we got back into mobile reception I googled the issue and within 2 minutes had the card formatted to FAT32. Awesome, now it works!
The rest of the day consisted of driving, driving and more driving! Woohoo!
We actually drove until about 20 minutes before sunset at a rest area called “The Boab Tree Rest Area” on the side of the Great Northern Highway. According to the map we could have gone to “The Big Boab Tree Rest Area” but I’m glad we didn’t. For starters, the boab tree we camped next to was way bigger than the so called “Big Boab Tree” which we passed the next day. Also, I climbed the tree we stayed near, it was awesomely big!
Anyway, Here’s some photos of me in the boab tree and anything else we took photos of today, enjoy!
Thanks for reading,
Trav.
