Adding loop recording feature to Raspi Cam

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I wanted to add loop recording feature for the Raspberry Pi camera system project (link to earlier project). This will free up the space in the thumb drive which enable 24 x 7 x 365 continuous recording.

Basically I added a few lines of code into the existing script, the code will delete any files that are more than 7 days old. The script as below, you will need to import datetime and os libraries.

I learn the script from this cool website Python How To , which teaches people how to code to solve common problems. Please check out the website, and the link to the script : https://pythonhowtoprogram.com/how-to-remove-files-older-than-7-days-using-python-script/

path = '/mnt/mydisk/'
    today = datetime.datetime.today()#gets current time
    os.chdir(path) #changing path to current path(same as cd command)

    #Iterate thru files
    for root, directories, files in os.walk(path,topdown=False): 
        for name in files:
            #last modified time
            timeStamp = os.stat(os.path.join(root, name))[8] 
            filetime = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timeStamp) - today

            #check if recirdings file is more than 7 days old, if yes then delete them
            if filetime.days <= -7:
                print(os.path.join(root, name), filetime.days)
                os.remove(os.path.join(root, name))