Where are jpeg/mpeg files stored?

I have not used that setup, typically if you know what the files are being saved as you can find them by typing locate <something> into a terminal.

I would assume that they would be put in your home directory in the pictures folder.

~/pictures

Unfortunately, no, not in there. Nor in the videos foler. Nor in the 'My pictures' or 'My videos' folder.

Anyone else know where to look? Thanks!

In my mition conf file, it shows the target_dir /tmp/motion , but when I open the tmp directory within File System, there is no motion directory in there. I click on View | Show Hidden Files, but still no folder named motion.

Could it mean a temp folder somewhere else?

I've confirmed that motion is running (with sudo netstat -puta)

tcp 0 0 localhost:http-alt *:* LISTEN 5215/motion
tcp 0 0 localhost:tproxy *:* LISTEN 5215/motion

Ignore my previous post. It's working fine! The temp folder apparently gets deleted on reboot. So I'm changing the config file to point the target_dir somewhere else.

When I changed the target_dir to /home/myname/Videos/motionvids , no files were created in that directory. I saved the changes made to the motion.conf file, and stopped and restarted motion, but no files were created in that directory.

So I changed the target_dir back to /tmp/motion, and now jpgs and swfs are created fine.

I tried changing the permissions on the motionvids folder to 'Create and delete files' for the 'Others' user, but I didn't change any permissions on the parent folders (Videos, myname, home.)

First, am I setting the right permissions for the right user, and if so, do I need to set them for each folder in the whole path?

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.